Leaving home to study abroad, whether it be for a Summer program, a semester abroad or a year abroad, is an experience like nothing else. Although I had essentially ‘left home’ ten months earlier when I moved from the town
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Arriving At My New Home
Applying to Study Abroad
Studying abroad has always been an idea that appealed to me, and was a considerable reason why I applied to study in Southampton in the first place. For numerous reasons, my first semester of first year wasn’t a very enjoyable
Read moreBlogging no Brasil: Episode 5
Hello everyone! I know this episode is arriving a little late for December, but due to the sheer distance between the UK and Brazil, it was simply more practical to spend the Christmas period in South America. During my time
Read moreMy Stay with a Mapuche family
After several weeks travelling around the south of Chile, I ended my time with a 3 day home stay with a Mapuche family on their farm, about an hour from Pucón, in the Arancunía Region of Chile, where the Mapuche people
Read moreMy year in Miami
Hey everyone! I have a blog going on Blogger about my year studying marine biology at the University of Miami. You can find it at the following link: http://ruthinmiami.blogspot.co.uk/
Read moreCelebrations, Visitors and Snow
Lots has happened in the last month and a half here in Geneva. For Bonfire Night I went to a British supermarket over the border in France. The heavy rain saved the Guy from the flames, but lots of people
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