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Top of the Blogs 2012-2013

While you're preparing for your year abroad, it's useful to find out what other students in your position are up to! Here are the early-stage blogs and words of wisdom about year abroad preparations written by current students, and here's what last year's students got up to: Top of the Blogs 2011-2012. Blogging is a great way to document your year abroad, but here are some other weird and wonderful ways.

Australia

 

Brazil

  • To Brazil and Beyond - Laura is studying French and Portuguese at the University of Leeds. She has already spent a term living in Dijon, France, and now she's off to study Brazilian language and culture at the Universidade Federal da Paraíba in João Pessoa, Brazil.
 

Canada

 

Chile

  • Durham Abroad - Gabriel is at Durham University and is spending the first semester of his year abroad as a Teaching Assistant in Santiago and the second as an Erasmus student in Spain.

China

 

  • abondgirl Abroad - Annabelle is studying Spanish (and, unofficially, Mandarin) at Durham University, and is currently in China where she plans to spend 3 months of her year abroad at Beijing Foreign Studies University studying Mandarin. Then from January she will move to South America where she will teach English in Ecuador for 3 months before heading to Bolivia to volunteer for an environmental organisation for 4 months.

Colombia

  • 1 Año en Soledad - Daniel is studying Spanish, Politics and Economics and is spending his year abroad working as an English Language Assistant at the Instituo Tecnologico de Soledad Atlántico in Soledad, Barranquilla. @ocdtetris

Czech Republic

France

  • An Englishman in Strasbourg - Sam is studying French and Politics at Cardiff University, and is currently working as an English Language Assistant in Alsace, France.
 
  • Ptolemy BracketGrace is studying French and German, and is currently working as a British Council Language Assistant in Metz, France.

 

  • Mademoiselle Melle - Emma is French and Music student at the University of Southampton, and is spending her year abroad as an assistant at a collège and lycée in the rural Deux-Sèvres department in France.

 

  • Tom in Ardennes - Tom studies French at the University of Warwick and is spending his year abroad as a Language Assistant in Charleville-Mézières, in the Champagne-Ardennes region. @toedmonds

 

  • Bye Bye England - Tobi Ruth is studying French, International Media and Communication Studies at the University of Nottingham. She spent her first semester as an Erasmus student at the University of Réunion, and is currently on a work placement in Nimes in a local hotel. @tobiruth

 

 

  • Perdue à Pau - Abbi is studying French with Italian at Warwick and is spending her year abroad as a Language Assistant at a primary school in Jurançon, Pau. @abbigailrose_

 

  • Todd's Travels - Todd is spending his year abroad doing a 6-month internship in Paris followed by volunteering in Medellin, Colombia, in March 2013 for 6 months. @toddington91

 

  • Mon année à Château-du-Loir - Hannah is spending the year in a small town between Tours and Le Mans called Château-du-Loir, working as a British Council Language Assistant.

 

  • Sense and French Ability - Sophie is studying Philosophy and French at the University of Oxford, and is spending six months of her year abroad in Paris doing an internship, and then either staying on in Paris or going to Montreal for the second half of the year.

 

  • Phoebe's Tastings and Travels - Phoebe is studying French and Politics at Exeter University, and is working as a Language Assistant at a school in Nice, France, while blogging about the different food she can buy, eat and cook.

 

 

  • iaspector - Imogen is studying French and Italian at UCL and is spending her year abroad studying in Bordeaux having spent the summer working in Lyon. In January she's off to Bologna and will perhaps return to Lyon next summer. @imogenspector

 

  • A Year Abroad in France - Lauren is studying French at the University of Salford Manchester and is spending 7-8 months of her year abroad working in Vitre, Brittany, as a Language Assistant. She is creating vlogs about her experiences too - check them out here!

 

  • A Year in Alsace - Gemma is studying French and English Language at Glasgow Uni and is spending her year abroad working as a Language Assistant in Colmar, France. @gemmagratton

 

 

  • Morwenna Takes on Europe - Morwenna is studying French and Spanish at the University of Sheffield and is spending her first semester as a Comenius assistant in Toulon, France, and is then heading to Estepona in Spain to work as a journalist for Andalucia.com for 7 months. @morefrancis

 

  • Pardon my French - Gareth studies French and German at the University of Sunderland and is spending his year abroad as an Erasmus student at the Université de Provence in Aix-en-Provence and in Koblenz, Germany, for 6 months each.

 

  • Letters from Le Havre - Sam is studying French with German at the University of Warwick and will be working as a British Council Language Assistant at two collèges in Le Havre. @wardsam

 

  • Girl in the French Cravatte - Montana is studying English Literature and French at the University of Exeter and is spending her year abroad as an intern at the International Herald Tribune in Paris. @montanagerry12

 

 

  • Down and out in Paris and Lyon (and Barcelona too) - Lucy is studying Modern Languages at the University of Sheffield and is spending her year abroad doing a work placement at a travel agency in Paris for 2 weeks, working for the same company but in their Lyon office until mid September, teaching English at a jesuit school in Barcelona for eight months and THEN back to the French company for another 10 weeks!

 

 

  • Allô j'écoute! - Helen is studying French and Management at Lancaster University and is splitting her year abroad between six month internships in Antibes and Paris.

 

 

  • Sarah Paris Barcelona - Sarah is at Oxford University, and is spending her year abroad interning for a company that uses native English speakers to teach French children through arts and crafts activities in Paris, and then working as an intern in Barcelona for an international policy group.

 

 

  • Bad French - Jacqueline Wallace is studying Law with French Language at the University of Glasgow, and is spending her year abroad at the University of Strasbourg (Robert Schuman Strasbourg III).

 

 

  • Sam on the Continent - Sam is studying French and Spanish at Cardiff University and is spending his year abroad as an Erasmus student in Chambéry, France, and Valencia, Spain. He is also part of the Routes into Languages 'Adopt A Class' scheme, adopting a year 9 French class in the Welsh valleys and letting them come abroad with him 'virtually' to see how what he once learnt in a classroom is now helping him survive life abroad. This will hopefully encourage the uptake of GCSE language study.

 

  • Peace from Paris - Pratheek is studying French and Spanish at Nottingham University and is interning for a translation agency in Paris for his year abroad. @pabadrinath

 

 

  • Year Abroad à Flers - Nicola is studying French and Italian at Warwick, and is going to be a Language Assistant at a school in Flers and one in tiny Athis-de-l'Orne for her year abroad. @streetwise91

 

  • La Joie de Vivre - Tasha is studying French at the University of Sheffield, and is spending her year abroad as a Language Assistant in Tarbes, near Lourdes in South West France. @tashballantyne

 

  • Melle du Jour - Mike is studying French at Bristol and is spending his year abroad in a small medieval town called Melle, in the Deux-Sèvres department. @emikedavis

 

  • Immi Catherine - Imogen is studying Politics and French at the University of Exeter and is going to be an English Language Assistant in the town of Bolbec, Rouen Académie, in Upper Normandy. @immicatherine

 

 

 

  • La Savoie, Ma Voie - Francesca is studying French at the University of Southampton and is spending her year abroad as a British Council Language Assistant in the French Alps. @chessg

 

  • Lizzi avec les Français - Lizzi is studying French and Philosophy at the University of Nottingham and is spending her year abroad working for a company called Babylangues in Paris teaching children English. She is spending the summer as an Au-Pair for a family near Biarritz.

 

  • Y.A-P. The Year Abroad - Anastasia is studying French and Spanish at the University of Sheffield and is working in Alsace, France, for the first half of her year abroad and in South America for the second half.

 

  • Tales of Travelling - Justiene is studying French and Linguistics at the University of Leeds and is spending her year abroad as a Language Assistant at a college in Lannion in Brittany, 2 hours from Rennes. @justeen910

 

 

Germany

  • Emma in Euroland - Emma is studying Economics and German at Cardiff University and is going to be a Language Assistant in the Thuringia region of Germany.

 

 

  • Ramblings of P Squared - Jen is a Spanish-speaking Joint Honours student at the University of Warwick and is spending her year abroad working in Oberhausen and living in Essen as a Teaching Assistant.

 

  • In a quest to become a more interesting person... - Iain is studying French, German and Russian at Nottingham University and is spending his year abroad in all three countries. He's currently in Koblenz in Germany working for a social work company, he's then going to be a Language Assistant in France, and next summer he's going to do a language course and an internship in St. Petersburg.

 

  • David Machin - David is studying German with Mandarin at Exeter University and is going to be a British Council Language Assistant in Groß-Gerau in Germany for his year abroad, preceded by working at an international summer camp in Turkey this summer and followed by an internship in China next summer.

 

  • Anna Auf Achse - Anna is studying Medieval and Modern Languages at the University of Oxford and is spending her year abroad working as a British Council Language Assistant in Nuremberg, Bavaria. Here are her top year abroad tips@annasambrook

 

  • Fluent in Denglisch - Amy is studying German and Linguistics at the University of York and is spending her year abroad working as a Language Assistant at a school in Dusseldorf, Germany.

 

 

  • Weg in Wernigerode - Katherine is studying German at Exeter University, and is spending her year abroad as a Language Assistant in Wernigerode, a town in the Harz mountains. @ksladden

 

  • Im Ausland: Ellie Speaks Abroad - Ellie is studying German and Italian, and is spending her year abroad in Düsseldorf where she doing a 5 month internship at the local theatre and will then be working in a similar field in Italy from February onwards. @elliefj

 

 

 

 

  • Home and Away - Rebecca studies German at Bangor University and is spending her year abroad as a Language Assistant in Nordrhein-Westfalen (North-West Germany). @rebeccaearnshaw

Hong Kong

Italy

  • You Can Take The Girl Out of London - Abbie is a student at the University of Hull and is spending the first semester of her year abroad as an Erasmus student at Roma II/Tor Vergata University in Rome, and will be moving to France for a work placement from the end of February 2013. @abbiegeorgia_c

 

  • Year Abroad in Italy - Ivy is studying Italian and Film at Lancaster University and is spending her year abroad working as an English Language Assistant at a secondary school in Puglia.

 

 

  • The Broadened Mind - Lottie is studying Spanish and Italian at Bristol University and is doing an internship at The Argentina Independent, a Buenos Aires-based newspaper, for the first half of her year abroad, and studying in Naples for the second half.

 

  • Sweet Home Rome - Zoe is studying English Literature and Italian at the University of Birmingham and is spending her year abroad in Rome at La Sapienza University.

La Réunion

 

  • Erasmus Life - Chris is doing a BA in Multilingual Studies (French, German and Italian) from Royal Holloway, University of London, and is spending his year abroad at the Université de la Réunion until December and will then study in Pisa from February until the end of the academic year.

Martinique

  • Une fausse chabine an péyi-a - Lucy is studying French at Bristol University and is spending her year abroad working as a Language Assistant in a school in Martinique.

The Netherlands

  • Groetjes uit Nederland & un Grand Français Bonjour - Victoria is studying French, Spanish and Dutch at the University of Sheffield, and is spending her year abroad at Radboud University in Nijmegen, The Netherlands, and then from February she will be teaching at a primary school in the Rhone-Alpes region of France. 

Russia

  • From Prussia and Russia with love - Rachel is studying German and Russian at Bristol University and spent last semester studying in Berlin. This semester she's studying Russian in Saint Petersburg for four months and will then work at Liden & Denz Language Centres as a Marketing Assistant until the end of August.

 

 

 

 

  • Tyumen and Back Again - Tom is a Bristol University student spending his year abroad in Tyumen, over 5 hours east of Moscow, and then in Moscow

 

 

Spain

 

  • A Girl in Aguadulce - Sarah is studying English and Spanish at Queen's University Belfast and is spending her year abroad as a Language Assistant at CEIP Arco Iris, a bilingual primary school in Aguadulce, a seaside town near the city of Almería.

 

 

 

 

 

  • Barcelona La Bomba - Elliott is studying Spanish and PR at Leeds Met, and is spending his year abroad doing internships in Barcelona. He is currently on his second placement working for an international online travel company for the online marketing department.

 

  • Adele Joanna - Adele has just graduated in Italian Language and Media Studies from Nottingham Trent and is now spending a year as a British Council Language Assistant in Barcelona. @adelejoanna

 

  • My Year in the Sun - Helen is studying English (with a couple of elective modules in Spanish) at Leeds university, and is spending her year abroad studying English Literature at the Universidad de Málaga.

 

  • Itchy Feet - Heather is studying French and Spanish at Nottingham Trent University, and has spent the summer working as an au-pair in France. She is moving to Madrid to work as an English Language Assistant and next summer she will be working at Disneyland Paris. @heathervcollier

 

  • Hit the road, Jack - Jack is studying Law at the University of Leeds and is spending his year abroad studying at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. @JackKenny

 

 

  • Espana in the Works - Nirankar is studying English and Spanish at the University of Leeds and is spending his year abroad as a British Council Language Assistant at a secondary school in Soria, Spain. @nphull_

 

  • Danni Hunt - Danni is studying Journalism & Hispanic Studies dual honours at University of Sheffield and is a British Council Language Assistant at a bilingual primary school in Madrid for the next year. @dannihunt

 

  • Sophia Overseas -  Sophia is studying French and Spanish at Durham University and is spending her year abroad working in Salamanca until the end of December and then as a Language Assistant in Amiens, France.

 

  • A Year in Spain - Amy is studying French and Spanish at Queen's University Belfast, and is spending her year abroad in Madrid as a Language Assistant in a primary school as part of the British Council Language Assistant scheme. @AmyNLindsay

 

  • A Year in Madrid - Claire is studying Spanish and French at Southampton University and is teaching English in a Secondary school in the Madrid region for eight months. @_claireparsons

 

  • Last Minute Marf - Martha is studying French and Spanish at the University of Hull and is spending her year abroad as an Erasmus student in Murcia and Lyon.

 

Sweden

 

Ukraine

  • Girl Meets World - Elise is studying Modern and Medieval Languages at Cambridge University and is spending her year abroad in Ukraine until April, and then in Moscow.

Shared Blog

  • Not in Nottingham - Nottingham students Lauren and Abbii are sharing their year abroad blog. Lauren is a Natural Sciences student studying Physics and Chemistry. She’s going to Bucknell University in Pennsylvania, USA, to study under the Universitas 21 scheme. Abbii is a German and Spanish student spending her year abroad as an Erasmus student in Heidelberg and Spain.

Whole Degree Abroad

  • Going Grenobloise -  Rosie is doing her whole 3-year degree at the Université Stendhal in Grenoble, France.

 

Would you like your year abroad blog to be featured here?  Please let us know about it - don't forget to tell us what you're studying and where, and what you're up to for your year abroad. (Don't forget to include your Twitter name!)

2 comments

  • Comment Link Wednesday, 09 January 2013 18:21 posted by Lizzie Fane

    Oh no! It appears Lottie hasn't started her blog yet! We'll find out more... :)

  • Comment Link Monday, 03 December 2012 06:42 posted by Minji Kim

    The link for Argentina leads to a empty site. If anyone can fix this it'd be greatly appreciated!

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