Category: Canada
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Hey, I’m Orlando! I’m studying a Bachelor of Communication, majoring in Media Business & Strategic Communication. I’m currently on exchange in Toronto, Canada at TMU! I’m about halfway through the semester and am loving the broad range of opportunities I have here, in particular the ability to go travelling. I visited Whistler on the way…
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“Some of the students come to stay here for a few months and are still here after 15 years! They meet someone in the house and fall in love”, Jess mentioned as she led me through the doorway across the wooden floor and into the office of the coop residency. Just one of the many…
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During the 2023 autumn session, I was fortunate enough to have the incredible opportunity to study abroad on a university exchange program in Regina, Canada. This was my first time living overseas for an extended period and I was excited to embark on this new adventure. It was initially daunting to leave everything I knew…
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I undertook a Global Short Exchange Program recently over summer at Vancouver Island University to study Forensic Psychology. I was very excited by the opportunity to study at a university overseas and to gain a perspective of another country’s university lifestyle, and Canada did not disappoint! I undertook a Global Short Exchange Program recently over…
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I’ve been in Toronto now for just over two weeks and it has been a wild and overwhelming time so far. I arrived on a Monday evening around dinnertime and I was so exhausted from the massive journey (via LAX) that all I wanted to do was check into the hostel and pass out. But…
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Waterloo seems to have a funny way of catching one off guard in how beautiful, simple and unique the life of being a student(-athlete) can be. I have been here just about a week, and it feels as if it has been a lifetime just through all the social events, the settling in and abrupt…
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Life in Toronto is a lot of fun, there are so many people around all the time! It’s always bustling. There is so much to do and there are heaps of nice food places and bars around, there are also heaps of students running around. It is also surrounded by so many parklands so leaving…
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“You came at the wrong time of year”, is something that has been told to me by almost every Canadian person I’ve met upon finding out I have come from Australia in the height of summer. However, from the onset I have disagreed with this statement and have found that not only did I come…
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Goodbye Sunshine, Hello Snow! It’s been two months since I’ve arrived in Toronto, Canada and to say that it’s been an amazing experience thus far, is an understatement. Toronto as a city is edgy, friendly, filled with good food spots and overall gives off chill vibes that are indescribable. Studying at Ryerson University feels like…
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Arriving in Ottawa To be completely honest, I knew next to nothing about Ottawa before I got accepted to study at uOttawa on exchange. From hearing things about Ottawa from other Canadians I had met on my Europe holiday before arriving in Canada, it sounded pretty much like Canberra – a place where no…
