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Return to Guelph
by Lola Bianchi, University Guelph, Canada So it’s actually currently March but I thought it would be good to write about how it was going home for Christmas and then also having to come back!
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Several months back into normality
Georgi Fogarty (University of Queensland) It’s been seven months since I waved goodbye to Brisbane and five months since I returned to sunny, sunny England (to clear up confusion the two-month gap was not all spent in transit, although the flight can feel that long – I spent this time working in Greece). The time has absolutely flown and the tan has definitely disappeared, but now I’ve just about had the chance to take a breathe since being home, it’s time to reflect on the ups and downs of returning from such an incredible experience of a year abroad. The down sides. Despite returning in late August when the days…
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Your stereotypical “My year aboard was the best experience of my life” speech from your returning friends
By Chloe Coradetti, Mechanical Engineering, The National University of Singapore, Singapore. Hellooo Manchester, I’m back! I’ve settled back to my Mancunian way of life since mid-September. It all happened so quickly: moving out, grieving the Asian food, the beginning and the end of the blissful holidays with friends and family, packing and moving to my flat with my two lovely British roommates, starting Uni, seeing everyone you haven’t seen in a year like nothing changed, intense masters’ lectures, first coursework, graduate applications etc… -Catching a Breath- My usual Manchester way of life just smashed me right back in the face so hard and so fast that I ended up bamboozled…
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