Adapting to life back in Glasgow

Returning to glasgow after having been away on exchange for the year was actually something I was quite nervous about. In some ways I felt similar to how I had felt when I was going to Canada to begin my exchange. The idea of settling back into the glasgow lifestyle, catching up with everyone [...]

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 [...]

Living the life of a Scot once more

Well it has now been about 4 months since I made my final return to scotland and my time living the life of an exchange student came to an end. To be perfectly honest my feelings about my return home could not have been more mixed. On the one hand I was excited about [...]

Summer Time

When your time as an exchange student begins to come to an end, you have a couple of important decisions to make….an important one being…’What do I do next?’ 
During the second semester of my exchange the topic of converstation ofetn turned to what people were thinking about doing once they had finished their courses at [...]

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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 [...]

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 [...]