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Great British food: What to cook on your year abroad
Friday, 17 June 2011Feeling nostalgic for the motherland is normal on your year abroad. Aside from the fact you’ll miss your friends and student-living, food, and the memories it conjures up for you, will irrefutably play an important role in making you feel at home in your new abode and calm a spat of the year abroad blues. Whether you choose to share these corkers with newfound friends or savour them alone, it’s up to you. But one thing is for sure, no one can leave the UK without a recipe for:Published in Health & Safety -
Top 5 Foreign Romance films
Monday, 14 February 2011There’s nothing better than watching a good old romantic comedy, curled up on the sofa or the double bed, with a loved one. Whether he/she is real or just a fluffy toy doesn’t really matter - what does matter is getting to grips with the exaggerated plot-line, and what better way to do so in another language? Take a look at our list of some of the best romantic films from across the globe - Kleenex and chocolate not included...
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Spicing up a long-distance relationship
Thursday, 09 February 2012Long-Distance Relationships: (noun, singular though can sometimes be plural) The act of carrying on with a holiday/year abroad fling, trying to make it work across countries/continents/the universe. LDR for short. See also: folkloric love, love hurts, happy families and love conquers all.Published in Long-distance love -
Studying Abroad with a disability
Thursday, 30 December 2010Studying abroad with a disability is more common than you would think and many people take the plunge to move their studies abroad, and feel better for it. In fact, 10 out of 10 students who went abroad with a disability said they’d recommend others to do the same, according to our survey. Starting your research early and finding out about the universities and the help on offer is the first place to start in your search for your year or semester abroad. Speaking to your home university’s International Office is top of your list.Published in Disability and the year abroad -
Left high and dry - what to do when plans fall through
Monday, 13 December 2010Georgia Mallin, a Year Abroad Graduate, gives out some great advice about what to do if your year abroad isn't what you'd wished for, speaking of her own personal experience, and what she did to change it, when she was already abroad...Published in When You Arrive
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Student societies: The ins and outs
Monday, 28 March 2011As you wave your way through the thousands of students that conglomerate round the union on Fresher’s Week, you’ll walk past stall upon stall of student societies, all eagerly touting for a nano second of your attention...Welcome to Student Society sign-ups, complete with pens, lollipops and stamped plastic bags full of supposed ‘goodies’, you’ll have your work cut out trying to make sense of it all, first time round...Published in UK Universities -
Top 10 Year Abroad Cities for Singles!
Friday, 11 February 2011If you’re going off on a year abroad and haven’t a girl/boy to your name, fret not dearest singletons. Relationships when you’re going off for a semester/year can be quite hardcore. Some pull through, some don’t; but that’s not who this article is directed at. It is for you, young French-kissing aficionados. This article is for all those lonely hearts out there that want to spend the best year abroad, without any romantic ties back home. But where to go is the real question, with so many great cities on offer? Here’s a top ten of our favourite cities, tried and tested with year abroaders...Published in What's out there? -
Why should I take a year abroad?
Wednesday, 19 January 2011Taking a year abroad can be mandatory on some university courses, such as Modern Languages, but it is becoming increasingly popular with students who are specialising in other fields, such as Business, History and even Medicine. Taking an open unit in the language you left at school is seen as advantageous by many an employer; uprooting to study or work abroad even more so. One of the reasons for the surge in students going abroad can be attributed to the plethora of schemes on offer, thanks to organisations like the British Council. So why should students choose to go abroad?Published in UK Universities -
W is for...What is culture shock?
Tuesday, 28 December 2010Culture shock affects people in all sorts of situations. However, it is deeply felt by students on the year abroad - whether it’s adjusting at the very start to your new surroundings, getting to know the locals, coming back home to notice things aren’t quite the same as when you left them, going back out there, still struggling with the language more than 3 months in...Though you can find articles on culture shock to do with specific countries, here are some tell-tell signs and general advice on how to cope.Published in Culture Shock -
Culture Shock: German student life and relationships
Saturday, 11 December 2010Elen Roberts advises on student life in Munich, Germany, telling us about what it's like on the scene, both for work and play...Published in Culture Shock
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