Being Back At Glasgow University

The clocks have gone back one hour, the seasons have clicked, Halloween has nearly been and gone, the leaves throughout Kevlingrove Park have fallen all along Kelvinway, their yellow and red colours cushioning my feet as I walk to university each day, yet somehow despite all this change and passing of time I am still [...]

Back in Glasgow

When I was younger and I used to go away on family holidays to Europe or America, I always remember returning and noticing things that had changed in the two weeks that we were away. Nothing major, just small things like new street signs. When you return from a year in another city, in another [...]

photo = 1000 words

Photographs from:
Austin, Texas. Berkeley. San Francisco. Santa Cruz. San Diego. Bonnarro Music Festival. Buffalo, New York. Toronto.

Torontotally Over

Having returned to Glasgow, I feel it is the perfect time to reflect, to comment and to share my experiences from my year abroad. The only difficulty is where to begin. In order to make this long schpiel digestible I shall break it down into different sections.

It was an amazing year. That one sentence [...]

Good times, Good people, Good Food? Toronto.

Its nearly the middle of February with next week being the seventh week of term – the half way point of semester two. Its also reading week. I had initially planned to go to San Francisco for reading week but after contemplating the time to get there from Toronto, the unabated work load (in fact, [...]

oh, toronto – how i love thee!

Where to begin? Where to begin? Its now November, the leaves have fallen, the poppy’s have been pinned, the clocks have changed and the intense workload is well underway.
Toronto has been an amazing experience thus far – there are definitely two worlds here however. On the one hand, there is the wonderful, cultural and always [...]

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. [...]

Oh, Canada!

After receiving my welcome pack, completing which courses I will take and submitting my Canadian visa I am left with the most difficult (and important) decision – where to stay? I have been in contact with two Glasgow University students, who spent their year abroad at Toronto, having asked them where they stayed and where [...]