Student Blogs

Happy New Year, everyone! 2016 is behind us and so is the first half of our exchange students’ year studying abroad. Our exchange students who used our HSI airport assistance service were guided through the chaotic busy Christmas period and safely boarded on their flights so that they could be welcomed home by their parents.

Our exchange students are ready to roll up their sleeves (while putting on their gloves and woolly hat) and study abroad again in the UK and Ireland after returning from their Christmas holiday break.

Hi! My name is Dmitriy, and I’m going to the King’s Hospital School in Ireland this year. High Schools International have worked closely with their local partner here in Ukraine, to enrol me into the school. The school year begins on the 28th of August. My family and I live in Odessa – a sunny…

Hi, my name is Niccolo. I’m going to join King’s College in Rochester, England. My parents proposed the idea to me few months ago to prove a different school experience with people from other countries, so we spoke to High Schools International and their local partner in Italy and they helped me choose the right…

  Hi! My fun in Ukraine didn’t finish this summer, because my brother had a wedding on the 19th of August. We enjoyed having a party like this and also meeting every part of the family…. Not all people understand how important family is, especially before journey like this! My advice: spend the right amount…

Now I’m living in Rochester, a little town in the extensive area of Kent, in England. Rochester is 45 minutes from London with the train. Here everything is amazing and different than Italy, there are people from every part of the world like Germany, France, Spain, China and this helps me to improve my language,…

  Hi, that’s me again! This is a picture of us in the Dublin Zoo – one of the best attractions in Ireland. On a rare sunny Irish day, the zoo becomes an excellent place with a variety of fascinating animals. But I’m sure that walking alone there would have been a waste of time!…

  In my last blog, I told you about the big hurling final and Galway, after 29 years, won!! One of the players (John Hanbury), who used to be a student at St. Endas came back to his school and held a little speech. But he wasn’t the only one who visited the pupils that…

It’s been one month and a half since I’m here and I’m used to life, food, weather. I met a lot of new friends here and this help me for improving my English speaking. I think that my speaking is already improved a bit. The subjects that I’m attending are going very well and now…

Hi! I’m eager to tell you what did I do in these weeks! First of all, as you know, I am a boarding student, but for October holidays I went to a host family in Dalkey, a wealthy suburb of Dublin. High Schools International found the host family for me and organised the taxi to…