Student life
Angkor Wat, Getting Vaccinated and Sloths
May 16, 2012
My friend Alice has just come back from a trip to Beijing. She has been studying in the Ningbo Campus for a semester and took time out after the exams there to go to the capital. Seeing her photos in my study breaks make me crave for the summer. Tanya and I recently booked four …
Farewell to University of Virginia
May 13, 2012
As the sun rises on the Nottingham summer semester, so the sun sets for me as a second year exchange student at the University of Virginia. My time remaining in the United States is now limited but I have much planned in my final weeks and many miles to get under my belt with much …
Revision and Rain
May 10, 2012
What is with the weather at the moment? Does it ever stop raining, I feel like everyday I choose the unluckiest time and get soaked haha. I suppose having to do work in grotty weather is pretty lucky though – the worst thing is being holed up inside doing repetitive revision while the sun beams …
Vietnam, Living on less than £1, and Happy birthday to me!
May 7, 2012
Today is Day 2 of doing the Live Below the Line 2012 campaign. It’s a massive charity campaign where you can’t eat more than £1′s worth of food over 5 days. It was started by the Global Poverty Project and the Oaktree Foundation in Australia and now it’s spread to the US, New Zealand and …
Foster the People, Greek Tapas and South Indian Cuisine
May 1, 2012
Hey awesome people! ^_^ It’s term again already I can’t believe it! Tomorrow is the School of Economics Class of 2012 photo and goodbye gathering. It’s one of those happysad, ‘what am I gonna wear?!’ events. Recently I went to see Foster the People with my best friend Izzy in Manchester. We hadn’t spoken to …
The End is Nigh…
The end is nigh, after the most intense semester of my studying to date I am almost on the home straight. The intensity took its toll last week as the gap in my posting shows, I was buried under my vast amount of work and my health seemed to hit a wall. Usually back in …