Summarising this last year Abroad – University of Miami

Wow, all I can say is what a year!
In the last 9 months i’ve made friends that will last a lifetime as well as experiences that couldn’t have happened anywhere else in the world.  If I was told I could change anything about this last year I would honestly say nothing.
Firstly, the education i feel [...]

Getting around Hong Kong

Getting around Hong Kong for a newcomer might be a little tricky and complicated. As much as nearly everything is in both Cantonese and English, some travelling arrangements in here can be a bit of a surprise to a Westerner and certainly was for me. Hong Kong is very compact and all of [...]

Links!

A few interesting websites that might be useful or at least fun to look at 
http://www.queensuniversityguide.com/index.html
http://www.myams.org
http://housing.queensu.ca/community_housing/
These are mostly copied from posts made by myself and other budding
exchangees last year on facebook. Are you a member of an exchnage group?
you can try:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Kingston-ON/Queens-University-International-Centre-QUIC/14323411189
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/pages/Glasgow-United-Kingdom/University-of-Glasgow-International-Office/10158845951?ref=ts
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?sid=2243baf62927c05373a5a65adb920f7e&gid=78985270902&ref=search

The end of an era!

My last few weeks in Halifax had me spending way too many hours in the library but also having a great deal of fun with the wonderful people I had come to know throughout the term/year.  The last few weeks of a term at Dlahousie University are certainly busy ones.  This term I had 6 essays and [...]

Some (hopefully) helpful tips

This year had been jampacked with highs, lows, surprises and pretty much everything.  If you are about to head off on exchange then all I can say is “Have fun!!!!”  – I know you will! I thought I would tell you a little about some of the things that most stick in my mind about my [...]