Tips on surviving a year abroad in China

Hello! My name is Mang and I just spent a year studying in Nanjing, China. Although I loved each and every experience, here are some of the things I wish I knew beforehand to make my year abroad a little

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If You Wanna Be a Badger Then Come Along With Me…

By the bright shining light of the moon! That is just a short snippet of the many University of Wisconsin varsity songs that I sang over and over at basketball and ice hockey games. I have been back in the

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Semester Abroad at the University of Adelaide, Australia

So I was lucky enough to be offered an exchange at the University of Adelaide in Australia for the first Semester of my final year of my BSc Population and Geography degree. Firstly I was apprehensive of accepting this and

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Getting through those first weeks

Well I’ve now been in Hong Kong for around 3 weeks now and I feel I’m starting to settle in to living here, but to be honest I found the first couple of weeks tough. Although I was warned about

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Home Kong

              My year abroad has left me feeling like a divided individual. It seemed harsh to turn around to all my friends at home and state that, really, I did not want to come

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First signs of Canadian Spring?

Well hello again to you! A little update on the weather report… positive temperatures have been reached!! Yippeeeee!!  I’m beginning to sound like a broken record regarding the weather but it is such a novelty. I don’t want to tempt

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