Hello again! In my introduction I mentioned that I was busy doing an MFA in Acting at the Guildford School of Acting, commonly referred to as ‘GSA’. GSA only officially became part of the University of Surrey a couple of years ago and, although it is now firmly part of the University (which is great […]
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Hi there! My name is Ilse-Lee van Niekerk, but most people here call me Ilse. I’m a 24-year-old South African who recently moved to the UK in order to do an MFA in Acting at the Guildford School of Acting. I’ve decided to spice up this introduction by making an ‘Eleven Things About Ilse’ list […]
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The theme of this week’s blog post is very near and dear to my heart: The Chevening Scholarship Programme. If you recall in my 1st blog post, I did mention that I was 1 of the 11 Chevening Scholars here at the University of Surrey. What is the Chevening Programme? Funded by the Foreign and […]
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Hello all! In my last blog post I talked about the process of actually getting to Surrey, today I thought I’d talk about actually settling in here, making friends, and my first few months in what I now consider my second home. The first weeks – first few months, really – at Surrey flew by […]
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Hello all, So today I thought I would talk about my process of coming to Surrey, for those of you that are hoping to come here and are not sure where to begin. As I mentioned in my last post, I applied to Surrey through UCAS. They gave me a conditional offer, and luckily, when […]
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Hello all, Ciku here, welcome to my blog! If you are reading this, my guess is that you’re a prospective (probably Kenyan) student looking for that inside scoop into life at Surrey. Or, maybe you just had a random search on google and before you knew it you were 6 blogs deep in the inner […]
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