{"id":5107,"date":"2018-01-22T14:02:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-22T04:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/qut-exchange-students\/?p=5107"},"modified":"2017-12-05T14:13:56","modified_gmt":"2017-12-05T04:13:56","slug":"find-a-real-winter-in-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/gone-global\/2018\/01\/22\/find-a-real-winter-in-the-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"Find a real winter in the UK"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tayla B
\nBachelor of Creative Industries
\nSheffield Hallam University, UK<\/p>\n

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My experience living in England for six months studying at SHU was incredible. I had never been to England or Europe before, but having many friends living there I knew what to expect, but nothing could prepare me for the weather. I arrived in winter to freezing temperatures and I think the thing I struggled with if anything was the lack of sunlight. Once every two weeks during winter you would get a sunny day, which is nothing like I am used to growing up in Australia.<\/p>\n

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It’s colder than you might think!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Other than the lack of Vitamin D, my experience was one I will never forget. I made such an amazing group of friends, all international students, from countries all over Europe, America, Australia which made for an interesting collection of people. I was living in the city in student accommodation, which made it easy to access everything by walking and was studying in the city so class was only a 10 min walk from my house.<\/p>\n

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The university was super accommodating to international students and had weekly activities for us and organized trips over the country to make sure we had plenty of opportunities to meet new people. This is how I made majority of my friends, and was the best thing the university did for us.<\/p>\n

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Making friends while on exchange is the best experience<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

There wasn\u2019t a lot of culture shock as it was an English speaking country, but the Brits have their own slang words that took some time to get used to!<\/p>\n

It was a struggle to accommodate to the idea that I wasn’t on holiday the whole time- I was living there- and that it was okay to not be busy the whole time or always doing something.<\/p>\n

The main thing that drove me to pick England was the ease of being able to travel all over the country by train and how close it was to be able to go to Europe. I spent my 22nd<\/sup> birthday in Paris and it was the most magical thing I could\u2019ve ever imagined. My exchange experience was the greatest thing I have done with my education and can\u2019t recommend it enough for anyone thinking about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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