I rediscovered a YouTube classic today. How to be alone, a poem by Tanya Davis, and video by Andrea Dorfman (filmed in Halifax, too!) Before I left to go on exchange to Australia, there were workshops on cultural communication and making learning plans that I generally brushed off. I had gone abroad before and never […]
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UBC’s coat of arms are at the Univeristy of Queensland, how cool is that?
Building the Great Court / Source: The University of Queensland Library At my exchange university, the University of Queensland (UQ), There’s this really great space in the centre of campus called the Great Court. Picture a big grassy area with trees where students can relax in, surrounded by an enclosed by old sandstone buildings and […]
Go on exchange to Australia, and then see the Great Barrier Reef!
Our reading break just happened here in Australia as my friends at UBC started their end of term exams. Brian, who is on exchange at UNSW in Sydney, and myself went up to the Whitsunday Islands and the Great Barrier Reef for the week. Some of the pleasures of living in Queensland is that it’s […]
#ericainbrisbane, the story of an exchange student who spends more on nail polish than she wants to admit.
There’s actually 3 colours, but you can’t see the sparkly one very well. Shannon Sterling, if you ever read this, the sparkles are for you. Thank you Brisbane, for the Sunday afternoons when I can’t focus on my studies in the library, and you provide me with shelves of OPI nail polish to choose from […]
I feel a little bit like Zooey Deschanel today
I’m getting ready to go to a potluck with other exchange students here at UQ and I can’t help but feel like I’m secretly Zooey Deschanel in Birkenstocks. Also, check out this cute dog calendar my boyfriend gave me. It’s a new puppy everyday! Isn’t he cute?
Brisbane, as seen through my cell phone.
City Glider transit buses! Complete with flying squirrel graphics all over everything, including the buses! I’m officially a UQ student! I’ve lived in Totem Park for 3 years with a dining hall, this is my attempt at food liberation. Guacamole, corn, and chickpea sandwiches. I have no ideas what these are, but I found them […]