Welcome to week two of living in Mexico City! This week has been more hectic than the previous week. All of us international students started uni on Monday, the 9th of January, alongside the domestic students. It was very packed. Starting uni in a new environment was nerve-wracking and felt like that nervous buzz you…Continue Reading A bumpy ride
Studying abroad in Tainan, Taiwan, is one of the most transformative experiences of my life. I wasn’t quite sure what to expect when I first arrived, but now that I’ve been here a short while, I have fallen in love with the 文化 and the 地方. Along the way, I discovered things about myself that I would never…Continue Reading 我現在找到了自己！
Well, it’s been one whole month in this beautiful, incredible place called Thailand. I had intended to write my first blog post much sooner, but, truth be told, the past four weeks have been such a whirlwind of working hard and playing harder that time has slipped through my fingers. But for my own records…Continue Reading One Whole Month?!
As part of the programme, we get to have cultural classes, which allow us to experience various aspects of Taiwanese culture in depth. Tea Ceremony While many cultures have a tea ceremony, they all differ and are unique. We headed to 耕讀園永華店, where we got a lesson on Taiwanese tea; we were taught how to…Continue Reading Chapter Five: Insight into Taiwan Culture
Vietnam celebrates their new year, which they refer to as ‘Tet,’ or in other countries, commonly known as the Lunar New Year. Throughout this holiday, we got the time to explore outside Ho Chi Minh City. Let me say, in this past week, I have had some of the most amazing experiences of my life…Continue Reading Celebrating Tet (Happy New Year!)
Time is going super fast.It’s already been a month since Christmas, and there’s only a month left until we leave Korea. We had our Midterm Exams two weeks ago, which took place over two days. The exams included Reading, Listening, Writing, and an individual spoken interview with our teacher, which lasted 10 minutes each! Definitely…Continue Reading Halfway through!
I thought I’d read enough about India and seen enough of it on screen to have a sense of the beauty, chaos, and diversity I could expect to encounter once I arrived here. But some things need to be experienced to be understood, and India is one of those things. At first, it’s a place…Continue Reading Navigating the Chaos
I can’t believe how fast this week has gone by! This week we have been living at the halls of residence here on Campus Querétaro which they only finished building last November! Which makes us the first proper tenants in this place and it has been awesome! I’ve never had to live in halls of…Continue Reading Querétaro – Week 2 iWinter in Mexico!
Our journey from Mexico City to Querétaro was a rather arduous one. Although we were only on the bus for a couple of hours, everyone wanted to sleep after the full day that we had but I still had study to do and the blog to write. However, when we got to Queretaro the entire…Continue Reading querétaro & queso