Tutoring Since last November, I have been tutoring a 13 year old boy English. We meet each time at a café just five minutes’ walk from my room, where we talk for two hours. At first, I wasn’t sure if this would be a good use of my time, but…
Samuel Franklin, March 2015
What’s in a name? I’m certainly no expert on the influence of names on one’s life, but I still maintain a genuine interest in unusual names. I can remember very clearly, in our second Chinese lesson at university, my class received our Chinese names. I was relatively content with ‘Fan…
Weimar is often called Germany’s town of poets.
¡La primavera llega en Barcelona! Spring arrives in Barcelona! – Sian Summerton, March 2015
¡Febrero y marzo han sido meses ocupados! El trabajo continúa ser estimulante y desafiante todos los días y ahora progresivamente gano más confianza usar mi español en un ambiente de trabajo profesional. He descubierto que mi capacidad y velocidad de traducción han mejorado rápidamente como me he vuelto mucho más…
Incredible architecture in Barcelona
Antoni Gaudí is quite possibly one of the most revolutionary modernist architects of his time. Throughout his long career, he designed and built some of the most striking and comfortable buildings to live in, using innovative solutions, always based on nature. Many of his works, which are more than buildings,…
Congrats to Sian
Congratulations to our new scholar Sian! Sian has spent the first semester of her third year working in Strasbourg, France. She is studying a 4 year undergraduate degree in French, Spanish and European Union Studies. From September 2014 Sian has been working as a Marketing, Communication and Translation Intern…
Good luck wishes Phoebe
Congratulations to our new scholar Phoebe! Phoebe will be travelling to Germany in March 2015 to study German at the University in Jena. In July 2015 Phoebe plans to start work in Germany We will keep you posted on Phoebe’s progress over the coming months! Good luck Phoebe …
Yunnan, province in China – Nadia, February 2015
Although I have not been to every province in China, I honestly think Yunnan is one of the best provinces to visit in China. I started my journeyby flying into Kunming from Xiamen and then took a 7 hour sleeper bus to Yuanyang to see sunrise over the rice…
Jinghong city in Xishuangbanna – Nadia
My next destination was Jinghong city in Xishuangbanna region. This area borders Laos and Myanmar, and the cultural influence is obvious. In this region the main ethnic group are the Dai people. Their accents when speaking Mandarin were extremely difficult to understand! Jinghong had some strange huge elephant statues…
