After a relaxing 3 weeks at home for Christmas doing no work, it was back to reality with a bump this month. I’ve spent much of my time writing my progress report, but it’s more or less finished now, which
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Life in Adelaide
Since I returned from Australia everyone keeps asking ‘So what’s university like in Australia? Is it really different?’ and to tell the truth, no. It is, on the whole, very similar to studying in the UK. However, the more I
Read moreArriving At My New Home
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
Read moreApplying 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 ArancunÃa Region of Chile, where the Mapuche people
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