My Time in the Upside Down

I remember my first day in Australia very well, considering the jet lag I had. 38 hours of travelling, and dribs and drabs of sleep later I landed in Tasmania. In Melbourne I’d been made fun of by security asking

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A Reflection of my First Steps to the Upside Down

It feels like a lifetime since I returned home from my semester abroad to Tasmania, Australia, and another lifetime since I first travelled out there. Lockdown and the global pandemic has given me an opportunity to reflect on my time

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The complete beginner’s guide to a semester in Singapore

Welcome to Singapore Overview Hi my name is Paul Dampierre and during my fourth year at the University of Southampton, while studying Eletrical and Electronic Engineering, I spent a semester abroad at the National University of Singapore (NUS). In this

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University of Granada- Cultural Exchange in the Confines of Quarantine

Virtual summer school arrived in the form of a notification ping. As we hesitantly crept towards summer, I had begun to worry for my precariously learnt Spanish. A lucky scroll through countless emails led me to a slightly buried email

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Think Pacific Gone Virtual

Bula! My name is Athanasia and I just graduated with Education and Psychology degree. I’ve spent the months just before Covid-19 planning and preparing for my upcoming summer trip to the Fiji Islands. I was going to do a mental

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UFMG (Virtual) Summer School

Taking the place made available by the University of Southampton to the summer school run by the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG) was a complete no-brainer as a language student wishing to keep up my skills over a long

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