Education Abroad Student Blog

As we were in Week five of school it was time for my first trip in Australia!

Even though I had only been in Australia for less than two months it felt really relieving to leave Melbourne for a while.
Me and my roommate, Michelle, were off for Sydney for a long weekend to catch up with a guy from Holland, Michael, that we spent time with while living at the hostel when we arrived to Melbourne.

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This week I have been to the bank, again. There has already been heaps of trouble with that, as you could see in my previous entry. I was unlucky this time but I reckon that the bank systems in Sweden are more developed than the ones in Australia. The system of handy and secure banking, for example by internet banking; international transactions; paying with credit cards, seems better in Sweden, from what I have experienced and read so far.

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G'day Mates!

Life as an exchange Student seems to fly by. I have been here for three weeks now.. In one way I feel like I just arrived still in the rush of all new experiences and at the same time I feel like I have settled down and found my life here.

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What am I doing? All alone on the other side of the planet!

That was actually one of my first feelings as I had passed through customs at Melbourne airport. I had spent my last 30 hours on planes and at airports and was hungry, tired and ALONE.

But what at first felt so terrible has turned out being just GREAT!

My name is Hanna Wennerlund and I'm an exchange student from Linköping University in Sweden. Back home I study a Master of Science in Business and Commercial Law and have done so for the last two years. Now I'm going to take some business and law courses at Swinburne University of Technology.

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