University of Western Australia
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A day in the life – University of Western Australia!
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First impressions of Perth and the University of Western Australia
Moving to Western Australia, I remember someone telling me that Perth was the most remote capital city in the world. Initially this didn’t appeal to me as I have enjoyed living in the UK. My family home is about an hour away from London and studying in Manchester I had direct links to all major UK cities. Additionally, adventure is never far away with flights all over Europe being cheap and relatively inexpensive. Perth located in Australia’s largest state of Western Australia is completely isolated surrounded by nature and tiny towns. However, what I have found is so much greater than I imagined. Perth offers something totally unique. You get the benefits…
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The positives and negatives of my year abroad – a video.
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A Comparative Map: Manchester vs. Perth
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1_vkQtLFlJEZjE2SSF_fYOoayKM4486mQ&usp=sharing Click or copy and paste the link above to access the map. Make sure to zoom in on both cities and click on the icons for descriptions of each pinned location. This map demonstrates my experience studying at the University of Western Australia, compared to the University of Manchester. Locations such as my home, the library, and my study spaces have been pinned. These show the spatial difference between Manchester and Perth as well as showing my movement in the cities. By clicking on the different pins and reading the descriptions, you can view how locations in the separate cities differ. Furthermore, comments on the assessment style difference can…
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Road Trip – Western Australia
-We went in semester two, British semester one, during Australian winter/spring (but tbh there is only one season here in WA and that is summer!!). -I live in college so we went in a group of ten (both Aussies and exchangers) from my college. -It took us a week in total to drive up to Exmouth and back down again. -I broke my finger the day before we left so I could only snorkel for one day as my cast was not meant to get wet. -My top three favourite places we visited were: The pink lake! It looks even pinker in real life, and the ground is covered in…
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An Ode to Rotto
Where: Rottnest Island, Western Australia. When: November 2018 (Coming into Australian summertime, so it was hot!) Rottnest Island a ferry ride away from Perth, is one of the ‘must see’ places I had been told to visit since I moved to Western Australia. For any of my fellow geographers, Rottnest is a sandy, low-lying island formed on a base of aeolianite limestone. Alongside Garden Island, Rotto is a remnant of Pleistocene dune ridge. The island was separated from the mainland about 7000 years ago due to sea level rise. However, human remnants have been found on the island dating back 70,000 years. The indigenous people of land known as the…
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This is not a goodbye Australia, but a see you later.
When I was told that I would have to write a series of blogs for the global ambassador programme, I had assumed that my final blog would be about how I was looking forward to going home and seeing my family. Where this in part is true, my biggest fear right now is leaving Australia and going back to life as I knew it before. The truth is Australia has become my home now and the thought of going back to Manchester actually scares me a little. There is a blog circulating around social media talking about the things people don’t tell you when you go on a year abroad…
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Culture in Western Australia
*Disclaimer: This blog is not intended to offend or accuse anyone, the views written here are based on personal experience and observation* This is a blog I’ve been meaning to right for a while. Australian culture is not too different to that of the UK, they have a similar education system, speak english and even drive on the same side of the road. The main difference is the sun; there is a lot more of it. This lends itself, to an increased interest in outdoor activities, from running, surfing, paddle boarding and many other physical activities, also leading to an increased promotion of a ‘healthy lifestyle’. There are increased trend…
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Trans-Tasman Travelling Part I
Im going to apologise now as I’m about to spam you all with the blogs i have missed during this busy six months i have had. So this semester has been a hectic one and so this blog was a little neglected. My return back to Perth to begin the semester again came after a fun fuelled and hectic summer, road tripping the Australian east coast and New Zealand. It all started on the 27th November with the first flight to Cairns to begin my six weeks road trip down the East Coast of Australia. I always thought of Australia being so far away from home, but in reality the…
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Academic Expectations at UWA
By Rachael Harrison, University of Western Australia This is my second post in a very short space of time. But I’ve finally finished, my first semester here at UWA. I’ve had a total of fourteen assignments and 3 exams, which actually means I’ve done more work then I would have in Manchester! Apparently there is a ruling here that exams can only be weighted a certain percentage, so my exams were only 40% which is at least 20% less than back home, plus in some you don’t even need to pass the exam to pass the unit. However, Australian universities seem to look their assignments and particular group ones! The…
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1 Car, 7 girls, 10 days, 3200km
By Rachael Harrison, University of Western Australia So it’s been a while since I last posted, but Australia is keeping me very busy. This blog post is seriously long overdue but I hope you’ll all still be interested, but it will probably also be very long, I apologise! The mid semester break saw us travelling in excess of 3000km North along the beautiful Western Australian coast, for a total of 10 days. Day one saw seven very excitable girls, trying strategically pack all belongings into one very small boot. We had a one backpack limit for each person, but obviously there were some people who did stick to this, which…
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5..4..3..2..1…TAKEOFF!
By Rachael Harrison (University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia) Since uni ended the countdown to Australia began. The excitement braced me everyday. Everyone who knew I was off on this year long adventure asked the same question, ‘Are you excited?’, ‘Aren’t you lucky to be going on this adventure?’; I could only simply answer yes, with a beaming smile. I knew I was very lucky to have been given this opportunity to study abroad, all thanks to The University of Manchester. The night before the departure was tough saying bye to my parents, brother and nephews, knowing that when I returned the youngest one would have changed so much, but…
