Student Blogs

  Happy New Year everybody!!!   December went by really fast and not a lot happened. My first term was about to end and I had a few tests and assignments. Me and my host sister still enjoy our daily walks and exploring new places. We also did a big puzzle which took us a…

Hey and welcome back to my blog! The last 2 months went by pretty quickly and I was very busy with school work and meeting friends. With the end of October and with the start of our midterm-break, we started to go back to a Lockdown which means that we were not allowed to go…

Hi and welcome back to my blog! I cannot believe that I am almost for three months in England. The time is just amazing! At the beginning from my second months I had my half term holidays. In these days I visited my best friend in Southampton for one day and met my friends here…

Welcome back to my second blog entry. A whole month has already passed again. It’s crazy how fast the time goes here! During half term my parents came for a few days. It was really nice to see them and show them everything. On their first day I showed them my college and Southampton. For…

Hello and welcome to my blog! My name is Carlotta, I am 16 years old and I am going to live in Southampton, England for one year. Because of Covid, everything is a little bit different this year. I was supposed to go to Canada but Canada didn’t open its borders and then one week…

At the weekends, I often meet some of the other exchange students I am friends with and who I got to know at the quarantine camp. We talk about the things that happened during the last weeks and about our experiences with getting new friends which is kind of difficult at the beginning because people…

Hello again! Time to talk about what I’ve been up to the last few weeks. So, as I mentioned in the last post we had our midterm in the middle of February. My sister and her boyfriend came to Dublin to visit me and we stayed in an Airbnb in town. The weather was awful,…

Hello! This is Asako’s 7th blog!   Finally! I visited my friend in Germany for half term break. I really enjoyed my time with her, and we did a lot of different things like sight-seeing, shopping, meeting her friends and we also did a lot of sports. One day for example, we went to a…

Hello this is Asako’s 6th blog!! I had a lot of fun activities in this month. We celebrated Chinese New Year:) In Japan, we don’t  use the lunar calendar, so we don’t usually celebrate Chinese New Year, but since there are many Chinese students in the boarding house, we had a big celebration and I…

Wow, January has actually never been so fast! We are almost halfway through February already, and do you know what that means? The mid-term break is right around the corner! I have so many exciting plans for the mid-term, I honestly can’t wait. So, for the first weekend my sister and her boyfriend are coming…