Surrey Abroad

I am so happy I went to study as an exchange student at City University of Hong Kong because it taught me to be knowledgeable, to become a caring, principled, open-minded individual, a thinker, a communicator and a risk-taker, which subsequently led to a great benefit in my personal and professional goals. The Exchange Programme, […]

My experience studying abroad at the University of Sydney in Australia can be described as the best 5 months of my life. When I left England to embark on my journey to Australia, I was nervous about making friends and settling into a new lifestyle. However, my nervousness was unnecessary, as by the second weekend […]

The first few weeks were very nice, I met new people and in particular other exchange students and we all explored Singapore together. We explored different temples, China town, Little India and other extraordinary places. Then classes started. At first it was very hard to orientate myself, the University was so big that there were […]

Hong Kong was a real gift. Not only did I celebrate my birthday there but I did so with new found friends from all over the world. On my first day, I met Americans, Scandinavians, French, British and many “mainlanders” as we call the Chinese from outside HK. The university I went to, the famous […]

I completed my exchange semester at Swinburne University of Technology in the Melbourne suburb of Hawthorn which is a short distance east of the city centre. I stayed on campus in a University-owned apartment with three Australian students who were all first years. The style of teaching in Australia is similar to that at Surrey […]

I spent my semester abroad in Toronto, studying at Ryerson University, right in the centre of Downtown Toronto. As cliché as it may sound, the past four and a half months were hands down the best of my life. I loved pretty much everything about Toronto. I’d always known I was a city person, so […]