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Embracing the English Cuisine

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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…
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2020/21 Carlotta M. (Germany) Blog Blogger High School Exchange School Year Abroad Study Abroad UK UK High School

Settling into Southampton

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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…
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2020/21 Carlotta M. (Germany) Blog Blogger High School Exchange School Year Abroad Study Abroad UK UK High School

Exploring Dublin with friends

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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…
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2020/21 Henrike S. (Germany) Blog Blogger School Year Abroad Study Abroad

Kristine shows her family and friends around Ireland!

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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,…
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2019/20 Kristine T. (Norway) Blog Blogger High School Exchange Study Abroad Uncategorised

Sightseeing in Germany...

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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…
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2019/20 Asako Y. (Japan) Blog Blogger High School Exchange School Year Abroad Study Abroad UK UK High School

Sharing cultures and celebrations!

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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…
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2019/20 Asako Y. (Japan) Blog Blogger Boarding Schools High School Exchange School Year Abroad Study Abroad UK UK High School

Amusement parks and Museums!

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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…
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2019/20 Kristine T. (Norway) Blog Blogger School Year Abroad Study Abroad

An experience of a lifetime...

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My experience as an interchange student at Itchen College is something I cannot describe with proper words. It has been the most amazing months of my life and I would do it all over again without second thought. My host parents were delightful, they were very understanding and funny. The food was amazing everyday and…
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2019/20 Juliana O. (Brazil) Blog Guardianship High School Exchange Study Abroad UK UK High School Uncategorised

Goodbye from Beatriz

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Hey, it’s me again, How are things going? I know, it’s been a little more than a month this time, but a lot has happened since the last time we talked I decided to come back home before the end of the programme, for purely academic reasons. Because I think it will be better for…
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2019/20 Beatriz L. (Brazil) Blog Blogger Guardianship High School Exchange Study Abroad UK UK High School

Back home for the holidays

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Happy New Year!! This is my 5th blog. I went back to Japan to celebrate new year with my family.  I did a lot of things there, but before I talk about that, I will talk about the Christmas ball… We had our Christmas ball on 10th of December. At the Christmas ball, we took…
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2019/20 Asako Y. (Japan) Blog Blogger High School Exchange School Year Abroad Study Abroad UK UK High School