I can’t speak for any other international students but I can safely say that my home university’s on campus shop is basic, but gets the job done. You can buy snacks, choose from maybe 2 notebooks, we have around 3 different styles of hoodies in...

When you pack up and move continents for the year it's fun, it's exciting and it's refreshing. When you arrive in your new city and realise that it is only a few weeks until your birthday and you don't really know anybody it's, well, disappointing. As...

Being an international student my main quest, aside from learning, is trying to see and do as much as possible in the short time I have here in SF. I usually have Sunday's off and so most weeks have taken this time to explore the...

I am still unable to include pictures in my blog posts, thank you technology, so I have had to take some time to think of an appropriate topic that does not require visual aids. I have decided to go back to basics. The real reason...

What a first week it has been here in San Francisco. I’ve packed lots in, met more new people than I can begin to count and, most importantly, I’ve had a great time. Given that this is my first visit to SF I have been...