Hello! Hallo! Molo! Sawubona! Dumela! Welcome! My name is Isla Henry, and if you haven’t yet been able to tell where I am from, I’m from South Africa. I was born and raised in Johannesburg and have lived all my life there. Until round about a year ago… I left South Africa on December 2nd […]
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[Be Warned: Long Post Ahead] Hello hello! Having spoken a little bit about the study abroad portion of my placement, I thought I would today focus on the other aspect to my incredible year: the work component. As I’ve mentioned before, I did what is called a 50/50 placement at Surrey, meaning that rather than […]
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A while back I wrote a blog post about Criminology and what it entails. However, it being almost two years since then (yikes!), I thought I would give it a much-needed refresh and update you all on the things I’ve been getting up to in my degree since! As I previously mentioned, simply put, criminology […]
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Hello all! After a whirlwind placement year and fantastic summer at home, it is (sadly) finally time to buckle down and begin the dreaded final year. As of today, we are four weeks into the term and so far so good! This semester I only have three learning modules, the fourth one being my dissertation […]
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I had been seating in the plane on my now 11th hour of travelling, when I started to feel cold… extremely cold. I searched my backpack for my sweater and then rolled the aeroplane blanket around my legs. I was really nervous of arriving in the UK, I started thinking about how I would get […]
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As soon as I arrived back in Wellington from my adventures in Fiji, the city was gearing up to celebrate Matariki – the Māori New Year. The week prior there had already been a few events, such as Ahi Kā, but the main event was the beautiful Matariki fireworks over the harbour, coupled with the […]
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