Back to life, Back to reality…

Hmmm..
Well being home as got its up sides for sure. I’m finally giving my liver a well deserved rest as well as my overdraft! I’m back working in the job I had before I left which considering the financial crisis is pretty jammy of me. I called ahead from Canada to say hello and ask [...]

Rebekah’s world tour of America

Travelling at the end of exchnage is a complete must if you have any money left! I decided to go with friend from exchange on a brief trip around the states spending around three days in each city.
We flew from Toronto to Vancouver, got the bus down and visited friends in Seattle and then got the bus [...]

A year in short

I came on here to summarise the year and it’s so tricky to do. I guess I’ll just do my best to talk about the best bits. 
I think the most stressful part of the whole year was the run up to leaving and the first few weeks getting classes sorted and settling in. Organising where [...]

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

begin at the beginning and when you get to the end…stop.

And so it’s all wrapping up, grades are posted travels are travelled and i’m sitting in the sunshine in Toronto ‘borrowing the hotel i stayed in last night’s (to mark the end of my backpacking joy) wonderful wifi connection.
I figured I had better get to documenting what is, by far the most amazing year of [...]

I love NYC!

So i’ve been a tad lax at keeping this updated. Christmas was fantastic! Managed to be in New York City for the lighting of the tree, saw Wicked on Broadway, went to see the daily show be recorded and had a chat with the Big Yin (Billy Connolly). I was there with a fellow Glaswegian [...]

Work hard, play hard… right?

So, three months in and who can believe it? It has been go go go on the coursework front. The academic culture here is very different and takes some adjusting to but it’s worth it for the wealth of amazing opportunities there are as well.
It’d not that the course work is harder there’s just more [...]

3 Weeks in…

What an amazing experience!!
3 Weeks in and already I’m in love with Canada. Today we went to Niagara Falls which was one of the most amazing things i’ve ever seen in my life. There’s always something happening here though. Kingston is a real University town with LOTS of school spirit and oodles of character.
All the [...]

9 days till Canada

Last time I posted I had five weeks to go, it’s all gone in so fast and in 9 days time I’ll be getting on a plane right now!!
I think I’ve finally managed to get everything sorted. When I first applied people told me it can be a little stressful at first but it gets [...]

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 [...]