The IEEC Blog

Ocean Beach is a natural gateway that you could reach to feel the power of the natural elements such as the sea and the wind. It is a beautiful place to clear your mind and thought about what is important to you....

The Pizza store named Blaze Pizza. Visited here last friday after we had our last OT, with my friends from South Korea. We went to Stonestown Galleria because of our mobile phone plan. Although there was no plans fitted for us, we had a nice lunch. As...

San Francisco as a city is best represented through the small neighbourhoods, each with their own character, history and distinguishing features. Haight Ashbury captures how I imagined San Francisco would look in the 1960s and it’s possibly my favourite neighbourhood in the whole city. My...

With the smoke covering San Francisco in a deadly version of Karl the Fog, we decided that staying in the city was a rather depressing concept as we could not go outside without a face mask. So we took the opportunity to go for a...

Los Angeles has always been surrounded with an air of excitement; in films it is the place that young people travel to in order to make their dreams come true. It has Hollywood, Venice Beach and the Kardashians, so obviously we just had to go...

As someone who has previously never left Europe, travelling to another continent by yourself is incredibly daunting. Part of me was certainly confused as to why I would leave a university that I love, a country I call home, and friends that I could basically...

As my semester is coming to its end, I would like to write some conclusive words in this blog for the future exchange student and summarize briefly my time in SF. Dear students, I promise you that at one point during the semester you will...