It snowed again! How exciting?? Apparently not very… unless you’re from the Southern Hemisphere! My friend from Finland laughed pitifully at the white campus grounds I found so fascinating. In Finland they have heavy blizzards and shovelling snow in order to be able to leave your house becomes a normal chore. So to her, this wasn’t ‘proper […]
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Last week was a good week. I managed to go to the Royal Opera House twice: once to see the splendid ‘La Traviata’ and then again a couple of days later to attend a talk entitled ‘Does Opera Hate Women?’. Both experiences were fascinating, for completely different reasons. I love the Opera House. It’s just […]
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Last week was my first week back in the UK after a wonderfully sunny holiday in South Africa. Just before heading back, I was reminded of the joys of living with housemates. They said they were heading to Tescos to do a week’s shop and asked if I wanted to join the meal-plan for the […]
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My gran always used to read us fairytale stories out of a beautiful old book. I used to curl up next to her and look at the pictures as she spoke, her words bringing them to life. Our final project for the year was a production of Grimm’s Tales. In other words, the original Grimm […]
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I went for a jog yesterday morning. Normally, this in itself is an occasion for applause (to me); but on this particular morning I went for a jog while it was raining…ICE. Yes, that’s correct. There was actual ice coming down among the normal wet droplets. To put this momentous achievement of will into context – […]
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Hello, As you probably guessed this is my last blog post as an International Student Ambassador for the academic year 2017/2018. Just like that 12 months went by and it is now time to go back home, Côte d’Ivoire 🇨🇮 that is. I really hope that you enjoyed reading those posts just as much as I […]
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