Surrey meets Latin America

An insight into life at Surrey from a current Latin American student

Keeping up with my hobbies in the UK (mainly reading!)

Today’s post is about keeping up with my hobbies while living in the UK. My primary hobbies since I lived in Guatemala are calligraphy, reading and most recently, taekwondo. I stopped reading shortly after moving to the US but I got back to it earlier this year, I never really stopped doing calligraphy but I’ve […]


Latin American food in the UK

Sorry I didn’t blog yesterday, I spent the entire weekend and yesterday feeling sick and with a fever but I’m finally starting to feel better! Being sick reminded me of a topic I’ve been meaning to write about for a while which is food! More specifically, accessing food from back home (most of it is […]


Emergency health services

Today I’m writing a post I hoped wouldn’t come so soon (or at all!): dealing with health concerns when walk in centres and GPs are closed. On Thursday night my chest started hurting and when I lied down it started hurting even more, every time I breathed in or out. Initially I wasn’t going to […]


A wonderful place to be!

Hello everyone!:) I can tell you that I was nervous to come to the UK to do my Masters but it is a decision that I do not regret and that I am very thankful for because Surrey is a wonderful place to be.  I learned so much with my program and I gained so […]


What’s it like to be a student ambassador?

I often get asked what kind of things I do as a student ambassador and what the application process was like so that’s today’s topic! For the application process I remember filling out a form on the website and emailing it, I think it described what the different teams did and asked you to tell […]


Clearing

Today I’m going to talk about clearing, as I worked for the university during clearing this past week and it’s something I wasn’t aware of while applying to UK universities (or until last week really, I was very confused when I got the email requesting people to work during clearing since I associate that word […]


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