toront-oh

 
As I begin to count down the weeks, the hours, the minutes and the seconds to my departure (august 26th) I realise that there is still one major thing left to : confirm my accommodation! I applied to Toronto’s Campus-Coop at the beginning of June, and after receiving a welcome e-mail, I have heard NOTHING. [...]

4 weeks to go…

I cant quite believe it, 4 weeks tomorrow and i shall be heading to the canadian lands with my giant ruksack ( and probably an even bigger bag of nerves ).  I have to admit that it all seems to be coming around really quickly, i dont know about you guys but i keep finding more [...]

Visa Interview Part II

Right, something that is so so important.  If you have booked your visa appointment and you get any sort of e-mail back from the US consulate make sure you read everything and read it as soon as you get it.
The night before my interview at about 10.30pm i decided to check all my emails to [...]

Visa/ Accomodation/ Mentor

Well, I have done my immigration interview, and got my visa which is a wait off my mind. The visa interview sounds a hell of a lot scarier than it is. I was at the London Embassy (I was told there were no interviews available in Belfast), the waiting times were a little long but [...]

Visa Interview Part I

Hi all!
On Wednesday 21/07 I will be travelling to Belfast for my Visa Interview to be allowed to study in the USA for my 3rd year.
This is the last stage in the process for me as i have already sorted out flights (even before i have been accepted into the country to study), halls of [...]

5 Weeks to go!

It’s been a bit of an eventful week!
I got an e-mail at the start of the week saying that a place had opened up in west campus (Jean Royce) halls and so I happily accepted. I did have a backup plan organised as there are lots of different types of accomodation in Kingston. I’d been [...]

hi all..

so finally after all the anticipation ive arived in adelaide and its raining!! but accomodation looks good and city seems nice so far! no problems with my flights or baggage so cant really complain! ive put a full blog on my own site if you wanna read more about me settling in! [...]

Intro!

Hello everybody and welcome to the blog.
I am Andrzej and I will proudly represent the University of Glasgow on an exchange programme in Hong Kong. Since this is my first post here I thought I would include some links to websites that everybody interested in studying in HK should know.
http://www.gla.ac.uk/international/studyabroadprogramme/ – this is probably where [...]

Bit of a setback

Hrm..
You are receiving this message as notification that Queen’s Residence Admissions received your completed application/deposit. Our assignment process is done by computer lottery and unfortunately you were not successful in obtaining a room in residence for the 2008 – 2009 academic year.
Not the best news i’ve had all week really! Have now applied for the [...]

Finally!!!

FINALLY!!! I got an email from Singapore today confirming me as a non-graduating student at NUS!!! I want to fly out 3 weeks on Friday, but I still haven’t booked my flights because so many things have gone wrong for me that I didn’t want to tempt fate! First of all, I missed one of [...]