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8,350 km away from home
Hello there! Thank you for taking the time to read this article. I’m Ritienne, a Psychology student at the University of Malta – a small island in the middle of the Mediterranean. I studied abroad for 4 months in Canada, so it’s safe to say that culture shock was inevitable. The reason I chose to study in Canada was mainly curiosity. I wanted to see how other people lived, and I also hoped to see some wildlife that I could never see in Malta – squirrels, deer, racoons, crows. Let me tell you: they are ADORABLE. On the 8th of January 2022, my friend Mireille and I took a…
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Erasmus in Sterling
Hello everyone! My name is Nadine Agius and I am a third year undergraduate student studying Psychology at the University of Malta. Applying for a semester abroad back in January 2021 sounded like a crazy idea, however, I decided to shoot my shot and applied for an Erasmus exchange to the University of Stirling in Scotland. The cold weather and the beautiful highlands were a stark difference to the sunny and coastal island I’m used to, but if I were to be honest, I was getting fed up of feeling sweaty at the beach so this change was more than welcome! Christmas of 2021 felt a bit surreal, as I…