Category: Canada
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If there’s any advice I can give to a future exchange student, it’s to arrive in your new city early – at least 2 weeks before the semester starts I’d say. Particularly if you plan to sort out accommodation on arrival!
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I never would have thought that the first time I would be living out of home would be so far from my family and friends, yet here I am writing this 16019km from home. I’m doing my exchange at HEC Montreal, Canada and have been here for a little over a month now.
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My journey to Canada started a few years ago with a dream to one-day return to the USA, a country I once called my home. Time passed with no magical trip back to the other side of the world, much to my disappointment. Then one day a seed was planted in my head at a…
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Leaving my family at the airport seems almost a distant memory after just two weeks in Toronto. Traveling to a foreign city can be daunting, and I left feeling completely overwhelmed with emotions, scared, nervous, extremely excited and many, many more. Having never traveled alone before, and the fact that I did not have one…
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The past four months have undoubtedly been the best times of my life. Going on exchange provided me with an adventure I could never have even imagined having before. I have just finished studying a semester in the winter wonderland of Waterloo, Canada. Luckily for me this was an ‘easy winter’ with the temperature reaching…
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Montréal, je t’aime! I have been in Montréal for just over a month now and have loved every second of it! I am here completing my final semester with four electives at the French speaking universtity; Université du Quebec a Montréal (UQAM). And I am the only Australian student studying here at UQAM. Fortunately my…
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On 3rd of September, after three flights which totalled 24 hours and 40 minutes of travelling, I arrived in Regina, Saskatchewan, a town nobody back home seemed to have heard of in a province more or less foreign. Before arriving, I had looked up this city and after extensive research, quickly came to the conclusion…
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It has been exactly 3 weeks since I arrived in Toronto and I’m loving it so far! First off, I couldn’t believe how warm it was for the first week of my arrival! I knew it wouldn’t flat out freezing when I first got here but I wasn’t expecting the warm weather and even higher…
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Exactly one month since I’ve left the rainy, cold Sydney weather, I’ve thrown myself straight into the Canadian/American summer/fall. Having to do direct equivalents with a double degree was pretty difficult and stressful, but here I am! So having a month off before my semester at the University of Regina, I decided to make Toronto…
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One week in Canada and finally everything has just about fallen in to place. I’m writing this post from my new (rather uncomfortable) bed in my share house apartment bedroom. Pretty exciting stuff. The process has been a whole lot easier than anticipated – I’ve spent the last couple of days scouring Craigslist and Kijiji…
