The University of Nottingham in North America

The End is Nigh

2011-05-10T00:49:00.004+01:00

Hey GuysAnother update from Austin, Texas! We've got one month left here, and time is really flying way too fast! It has been an absolutely manic semester so far. As part of my course I've been able to work with a Capital Punishment Clinic run by the Law School, which has been the experience of a lifetime without a doubt. The clinic screens and selects convicted criminals on death row who have

Spring Break!

2011-03-31T18:36:00.005+01:00

The month of March welcomed the traditional student holiday which one calls Spring Break. The dates of my Spring Break at UF fortunately coincided with the dates of Mardi Gras and of course, we decided to take full advantage of this. New Orleans was pretty chaotic with hundreds of people wearing fancy dress and drinking freely! Parades occurred in the day and night where marching bands and floats

Howdy y'all

2011-03-02T17:37:00.007Z

My stereotypical Southern title to this post is due to my visit to Texas during the last weekend in February. I went to Austin for a weekend to experience some Southern culture. Austin is renowned for its live music (hosting SXSW music festival), chilled out nature and just generally cool people. During the weekend I didn't meet one unhappy person! The general consensus among the people of Austin

Sigma Pi

2011-02-03T23:36:00.004Z

It has been a hectic few weeks since my last post. At the end of last term after all the exams and parties were over I flew over to New Jersey on the East Coast to stay with an American friend who was on exchange at Nottingham when I was a fresher. It was a quick 3 day trip but we packed loads in, sampled the delight of Jersey's pasta pizza, had a cheeky dabble on the blackjack tables in Atlantic

A new year brings a new semester!

2011-02-02T19:38:00.003Z

Settling in to a new semester has been a lot more straightforward and less stressful this time around due to knowing the ropes at UF (also I luckily didn't have the worry of snow affecting my return flight!). We were warned that the weather was expected to get colder for January and February however we have been blessed so far with week long warm spells preparing us for the summer heat that will

Winter Update

2011-01-25T20:51:00.002Z

With exams over, it feels apt to write another update here.Every Canadian I meet seems to gain a certain amount of glee by informing me, ‘this isn’t the worst yet, wait till February,’ Now I think it is a sign of a particularly sadistic people that seem to enjoy the pain of others, yet the Canadians still present themselves as being like ‘America without the Americans.’ Just so you know, it gets

Cougars!

2011-01-15T00:43:00.004Z

I'm back in Charleston after a lovely, but very busy, christmas holiday back in snowy old Leeds. Since i last blogged i managed to go back to New York to stay with family friends for thanksgiving and my 21st birthday (see pic above of the amazing ice rink in Central Park). It was amazing, mainly because i got to have an epic meal with a house full of Italian Americans, and because my family

2010-11-29T03:08:00.006Z

Despite it being November, at UF it still feels like summer with temperatures in the twenties! This is one advantage for being in Florida and another reason is that you only have to pack light clothes! I think it is going to be quite a shock to return to England at Christmas to face temperatures below zero.As the term is coming to a close, it means the work load has unfortunately picked up with

Update from McGill

2010-11-16T03:36:00.002Z

Sorry, I appreciarte this update is late, but the lure of midterms, meant that I kept on putting it off. Looking through some of the previous updates, people tend to talk about their life in the country and them furnish this with personal anecdotes, so I'll try and do the same.I'll start with class. McGill lecturers are fantastic for the most part, and I have to say that I much prefer the class

Dads Weekend

2010-11-15T03:56:00.004Z

Once a year American Universities have a weekend dedicated to Dads. It is quite a nice idea but its slightly strange walking round campus seeing every student with their Dad in toe, some of the Dads even stay in the dorms. Of course I didn't have my Dad over for the weekend so I therefore continued to partake in the usual weekend activities at an American College, 'Football' games and house

College of Charleston

2010-10-25T23:08:00.003+01:00

Hello! I probably should have blogged before now, but better late than never i suppose! My name is Nikki Barr and i am currently studying at the College of Charleston in South Carolina (go Cougars!). I'm not really sure where to begin in describing Charleston. For me, the biggest attraction are the beaches, each of which are just a twenty minute drive away, and since a few of my American friends

Life as a Gator

2010-10-05T22:28:00.002+01:00

Hello!My name is Hania Piotrowska and I am currently studying at the University of Florida. I have been here 9 weeks which is crazy when you think about it as it doesn't feel that long. Campus is a lot larger than Nottingham, we have a football stadium which seats over 90,000 people, a basketball/volleyball court, numerous pools and gyms, a golf course and actual alligators! I thought this was

Everything is Still Bigger in Texas

2010-09-27T21:52:00.003+01:00

It is just about been a month since the Nottingham Law group arrived in Austin, and time has just flown past! We had about a week to settle ourselves into our apartment and Texas life in general before classes started, and are now pretty much into the swing of things.Classes here are slightly different to what we had back in Nottingham, the most obvious difference that can be seen on entry into a

Welcome to Oregon

2010-09-27T03:21:00.004+01:00

After 36 hours, 3 planes, 2 airport floors and 1 retired federal agent I finally arrived at Oregon State University to start my American College exhange year.OSU is a fairly large university in a small american town, where frat parties are the place to be and the 'football' team are religion. After my first week of orientation I have now fully immersed myself into american college life. This was

Go Wildcats!

2010-09-19T23:55:00.003+01:00

Hi everyone,My name is Sam and I'm currently studying Chemistry at the University of Arizona. I was a little apprehensive about being out here with all the problems Arizona is having with Mexico but I haven't seen anything that would make me think there are any issues.I arrived the day before Undergraduate orientation started so I would be getting very sleepy in the afternoons due to jetlag but I

2010-09-15T08:17:00.003+01:00

Hi everyone,What with it being induction week for international students here at Nottingham I thought it would be as good a time as any to report back on my trip to the States.I had a great time! Sitting here watching the rain pour down outside it is quite hard to remember the blistering heat I experienced everywhere I went but sunburn doesn’t lie. It just hurts. I started out in Boston and got

USA, I love you!

2010-09-06T01:29:00.002+01:00

Hi everybody! My name is Veronika Poniscjakova, and I’m going to spend this whole year at the University of Connecticut in Storrs, CT. When I left Slovakia with my uncle (obviously my family doesn’t consider me competent enough to get to the USA on my own in one piece), I was a bit scared, as I didn’t really know what to expect. Thankfully, everything turned out to be fine and I’m slowly

First steps into Canada

2010-08-30T16:15:00.004+01:00