India is overwhelming at every level to the first timer. The hustle and bustle, the constant cacophony of car horns, beggars, markets, lack of sewage all hit you as you first step out of the airport. India is an experience
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Packing, packing and more packing!
Humming ‘I’m leaving on a jet plane’ and blurting out the occasional Japanese phrase shows me to be in the strange no man’s land of transition between the UK and Japan. This land is full of preparation, packing and pre-flight
Read moreO-Week, Niagara Falls and Hail Stones
If I had to sum up Canada in one word, my immediate thought would be ‘huge’. Huge cars, huge roads, huge distances between literally everything, huge portions… you
Read moreHURON! Oi Oi Oi!
Arriving in Canada for Huron’s International Pre-Orientation week barely gave me any time to catch my breath – or recover from the jet lag – before being thrown head-first into Western’s ‘O-Week’. After some hesitance and confusion at the constant
Read moreWisconsin-Madison Exchange Fair
Today I was at the Study Abroad Fair held at Union South. There were hundreds of stalls set out representing multiple countries and universities. Katie and I stood at our stall throughout the fair, handing out information packs and retelling
Read moreMy Erasmus Experience in Frankfurt, Germany
Many students like me have thought about studying abroad at some point even before starting to apply for university. Then actually in your first and second year you start to research what universities you can choose from because you had
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