Posts in "Go Abroad and Travel Advice"

Disclaimer; this blogpost was written with Covid restrictions in Scotland as of May 2021 in mind. If you do make travel plans please make sure you check the current restrictions in your local area and any area you will be travelling to or through and stay safe.

It has been…

Are you planning on traveling during the Easter holidays, but can’t decide where to go? If you are interested in Art Nouveau architecture, old towns, urban bars and lots of history, Latvia might be the right place to visit. Latvia is one of the three Baltic countries…

For today’s post, I’ve decided to do something a little different. I wanted to interview an exchange student from Liège who went to study in Aberdeen, but I thought I would spice things up. Since there are a lot of students of French in our university of Aberdeen, and since…

Hi, my name is Jess and I am a French and Spanish student here at the University of Aberdeen. I am currently two thirds of the way through my year abroad, and am writing from my placement in Spain. As I my degree is joint honours French and Spanish, my…

Here I am, writing this from what will be my new home for the next five months. This will be a slightly different kind of post, a more personal one. I want to take you with me and give you a little taste of what it’s like to find yourself…

Usually the phrase is, “the good, the bad and the ugly.” However, I haven’t really had any bad or ugly experiences here so I switched the phrase up a little to work in my favor. I have settled in a lot over the past couple of days and this post…

It should come as no surprise that one of the main reasons why students decide to spend time studying in a foreign institution, is to improve their language abilities. Nowadays, having a grasp on a foreign language as a skill on your CV can be advantageous for almost any job…

My name is Allie and I am a 20 year old student from North Carolina studying at the University of Aberdeen this semester. I am majoring in journalism with a minor in sociology from my home university, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. I have always loved to…

This is it. You know there are only a few weeks left until the exchange year/semester abroad that you’ve been dreaming of for months. Every inch of your body can’t wait to get on that plane and begin a new adventure with your mind open to new experiences, like a…

Emma speaks about things to do around Aberdeen and Scotland. #MyAberdeenJourney