I chose Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia, Canada, for a few reasons. The first being that the Law Faculty recommended this institution, the second being that the I wanted to experience the North American college lifestyle and thirdly, I wanted to go somewhere that I spoke the…

Last September I embarked on the incredible experience of an exchange semester at Leeds University. I chose this University for a number of reasons: the availability of my Biomedical Science subjects, its high reputation within the UK, for the chance to live in Leeds and be close to…

Location I was located in Calgary in Alberta, Canada. Calgary is about an hour drive from the Rocky Mountains. Canada is an excellent country to do exchange as Canadians are extremely lovely people! Canada and Australia are very similar in many aspect of everyday life. The dollar is…

My exchange semester was at the University of Waterloo in Waterloo, Ontario. I initially chose Canada because I wanted to go to an English speaking university primarily, but also because it was where I wanted to travel the most. I knew that the university was well known for…

I chose to travel to Budapest, the capital in Hungary. One of the main reasons for choosing Budapest was the central location in Europe. Consequently, it was easier to travel to other destinations in Europe, such as Paris in France, Berlin in Germany, Bratislava in Slovakia, Wien in…

Accommodation Finding an accommodation was pretty easy; there are several websites that lists available apartments every week. In addition, there were a lot of real estate firms around in Budapest you could go to, to get help. The rental cost itself was actually not that lower than Brisbane,…

Strengths I truly believe USC was the best school I could have chosen in the States. Yes, its campus is beautiful, its academics are excellent and the exchange staff are super helpful… but I think what really makes it the best, is its student culture. As with many…

In Swansea, I studied ‘Youth Justice’, ‘Criminalisation of Sex’ and ‘Crime, Drugs and Alcohol’. I was amazed by the fact, especially in the youth justice module, that the lecturer was actually involved in developing a new youth justice system and most of the articles we read for the…

The benefit of living on campus was that most of my expenses were paid before I left Australia. My residence fees, meal plan fees, and flights made up the bulk of my expenses and cost me around $7000, paid for with my QUT Bursary and OS-HELP loan money.…

I didn’t have a problem with culture shock because I had been to Japan before. I honestly think the biggest culture shock I experienced was visiting the grocery and trying to figure out what was milk (It turned out the stuff in bottles was actually a yogurt drink…)…