The IEEC Blog

During spring break I got to visit a lot of great places during the week, but I gotta say that Grand Canyon was definitely one of the best places I visited. If you like nature and great views, this is a place you cannot miss....

It’s funny, everyone talks about their ‘third-week slump’ when they go on exchange. You know, that time just a little bit in where you start to miss everything about home and you realise you still have so long to go before you’re back in your...

Not being from the United States, Spring Break is something I had always heard about in movies and on TV but never really understood. From what I knew, it was one week of intense partying, no matter where you were, whether it was Mexico, Florida...

Before I came on exchange I had organised to share a room with a girl from my university in Sydney. We barely knew each other, only meeting in person twice before we moved in together, but I knew I would prefer to save money by...

‘You OK?’ The cashier at the supermarket asks me. I look up from studying my stumpy nails, smile and respond with; ‘Isn’t that the million-dollar question?’. He laughs, shrugs and mutters something along the lines of ‘Yeah, I guess’. In hindsight, he had every reason...

Hi! I am a 22 year old woman that was born and raised in Sweden and I am here at San Francisco for one semester, studying marketing. Today I was thinking about what to write about in the blog, what homework I should do first...

One of the most profound and accurate things said this week was done so by an Uber driver. Some friends from my home university had flown out to see me, and were currently all faffing about in the back of the car as we drove...

High ceilings, climbing walls and a big reception was the first thing I saw when I walked in there and in my head I was just thinking “oh my god! Is this heaven or a school gym?”. I went to the reception and talked to...

The most common question I get asked when people find out I am from abroad, and more specifically England, is how America compares to across the Atlantic. I always start by commenting on the nicer, if slightly more unpredictable weather– because there is nothing more...

Unoriginally, the start of my journey here was stressful and almost disastrous. You hear stories like that all the time: my bags were too heavy, I couldn’t find my passport, I almost missed my flight, etc. My experience was no different.   It started off with the...