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This website gives you information about the joint mobility project "Border Crossings: People and Places", but also functions as the participating students' blog, where they reflect upon their experiences.
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Home is where your heart is.
With mixed feelings, I am sitting at the airport all alone. Foreigners and/or travellers are passing by and I am now one of them. Hello vagabond life (again)! I don’t know whether to laugh myself to tears about how much … Continue reading
My little bucket list – 5 things to do before I… leave Melbourne:
Time is ticking and now I have just realised and accepted the fact that we are all getting older and so I started thinking about things to do before I leave this young city with its vividness. The list is … Continue reading
Posted in La Trobe, Malmö
Tagged art, brighton beach, bucket list, coffee, cycling, Eureka, gallery, Melbourne, memories, port melbourne, st kilda, to do
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The State Library of Victoria
Now it’s time for the last countdown of final exams! Hurray! There is no better place to study than the State Library of Victoria, a place of knowledge. It’s amazing what effect the atmosphere in here has on your learning … Continue reading
Sex and the City: the road through Pandora
Only a week after Easter break, we had another week off. In our lecture break Stefania (Border crossings colleague from Italia), another friend and I were heading to Melbourne. Research has conclude that Melbourne is the city where the most … Continue reading
Hejdå Malmö. G’day Melbourne.
”How’s it goin’?” Prior to my arrival in Melbourne (on Valentine’s Day!), I have also been travelling in the Middle East and in Asia to getting used to the time difference and temperature change bit by bit. In a nutshell: … Continue reading
Proud and Patriotic
I have noticed before during my longer stays abroad that I tend to turn into a very patriotic and proud Swede. I have lived in New Jersey, USA for a year and I also worked in Germany for three years, … Continue reading
Posted in Flinders
Tagged Adelaide, boyfriends, country borders, Flinders, jessica, malmö student, Melbourne, pride
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69 down, 69 to go.
This is it. The half-time mark has come, and now almost passed, by a couple of hours. Today I have survived and put behind me half of the time I have here in Australia. It feels very weird; I do … Continue reading
Posted in Flinders
Tagged Adelaide, Australia, Flinders, half time, life, malmö student, Melbourne
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Tonight We Are Young: The First Few Weeks Down Under
Dear all, Welcome to my first blog from Down Under. It’s been a couple of weeks since I first arrived in Australia and let me tell you, they have been hectic! I’ve done so many things in such a short … Continue reading
Hi there!
Hi everyone I hope that all of you are settling in fine in your new homes! I wrote in my first entry that an introduction was coming and I think now is the time for one. Well as you know … Continue reading