Education Abroad Student Blog

So it's about that time once again...blog number 3! Glasgow is getting much colder now, and we're losing the sun before five at night, which does strange things to my eating habits – dinner has become a mid-afternoon meal. We've passed the excitement of Guy Fawkes night, which is just known as bonfire night up here. Since fireworks are legal, bonfire night gave a little of the impression of being under attack...

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Wow. I can't believe it, but I've been here over a month already. And I've only written one blog. Oops. I guess in a way that's good, because it shows just how much I've been involving myself in campus life ?- and my studies of course. But from now on I'll aim to write at least once a fortnight.

In my last blog I outlined how it was that I got here to Glasgow. This one should be much more fun! We're up to week 4 of semester now, and everything is settling into some semblance of routines. In the first week I made a real effort to get out and go to the freshers' week events, which meant that I got to meet a lot of people, in particular a lot of other international students. The support and events co-ordination for exchange students here is absolutely brilliant, with language groups, weekend trips, and a weekly pub crawl all organised for us, as well as once-off events such as the 'Welcome to Strathclyde' ceilidh.

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Hi

My name's Leah Strauch and at Swinburne I am a civil engineering and business student (double degree). I'm currently in Glasgow at the University of Strathclyde where they seem quite unsure of what kind of student I am, apart from the obvious fact that I'm an international. But I'm not overly bothered at this point, because the main thing is that I made it to Scotland!.I'm sure everything else will work out.

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