How Switzerland Saved Me: A Retrospective on my Year Abroad

Preparing for the year. A year abroad is a daunting prospect. To be thrown into another country with no one you know, little real understanding of the area until you actually get there and an array of opportunities ahead of

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Some amazing places you got to visit in Hong Kong! Pictures speak

Hi everyone, my name is Jessie, a Third Year undergraduate student at Southampton university, studying LLB Law & International Legal Studies. This is my first blog post. I went on a full year’s Exchange at the Chinese University of Hong

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Hey guys, just to let you know thereā€™s beer up on the roofā€¦

Much like Hong Kong, before visiting I was pretty apprehensive about what I would find when I went there. No amount of googling was enough to reassure me, and despite all the snooping Iā€™d done on the net, I still

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I came, I saw, I loved it: Hong Kong

Our Winter semester at Dongguk officially ended on the 18thĀ of December, but the modules I had taken ended some days earlier. Academic years in Korea run along the calendar year, so their first semester begins in March, while Semester 2

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The One Where I Learn To Do Holidays Differently

Hi again, and once more I apologise for the elongated hiatus since my last post. Iā€™ve had this update written down in a notebook for a while, Iā€™ve just been a bad combination of busy and lazy lately, but finally,

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Getting On With Things

SoĀ I think the only proper way toĀ start off this blog post is with an apology for everyone who has waited for my return to the blogsphere. Between the last post I made and now, things have been a touch hectic.

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