So here I am, a Swede in the amazing city of San Francisco. San Francisco is known for its great diversity, and the fact that we found an IKEA warehouse around here proves it. IKEA is pretty much the trademark for Sweden. For the first...
I'm not sure if I miss Autumn or not. I'm not even sure if San Francisco really has an autumn or is supposed to be having one right now. When I told my advisor I wanted to go to San Francisco State her immediate response...
So, this is the first blog post in a series I'll be doing throughout the year in relation to studying abroad in San Francisco as an international student from the U.K. It'll include the highs and lows, the differences and the similarities and whole lot...
As you probably guessed from the title, I got homesick. I knew that this would happen at some point. It’s natural! I’ve moved really far away from home; quite frankly if I didn’t get homesick, then it would be weird. Nevertheless, I was pretty shocked...
Study Abroad fair on Malcolm X Plaza. Tuesday , Oct. 15 and Wednesday Oct. 16, 2013. Photo by Oda Nedrejord[/caption]
Although it has already been more than a month since I arrived in San Francisco, I must say: sometimes I still have a hard time believing that I’m actually here. The height of the buildings in the financial district downtown seem unreal at times and...
The Bay Area has one of the highest concentrations of Chinese people in the United States, as such, celebrations of the lunar New Year are a pretty big deal here. Last weekend saw the colorful (and very very loud) annual parade take over the Downtown...
When on exchange, so I’ve noticed, things take a different pace than at home. Not only do we have to figure out the city and a new school system (Ilearn omg wtf?) within a short period of time, we also need friendships, at least I...
Last Monday I finally had the opportunity to take a walk through the traveling retrospective of the photographic and filmic works of Cindy Sherman, which is currently on display at SFMOMA until October 8th, 2012. I had yet to see Sherman’s work in person and...
Earlier this week many members of the IEEC got their first taste of the American obsession that is baseball, or perhaps it would be better to say we got our first taste of San Francisco's obsession with the Giants? There was over twenty of us filling...