(I started writing this two weeks before I left for home. I could retrofit all the verbs to past tense now that I’m back, but I think I like it as-is.) Well, I’m all packed …
Melanie Kohls
Dw i’n caru y coffi yma: I love the coffee here
I know you’ve all been on the edge of your seats wondering which of Cardiff’s coffee shops are my all-time favorites. Sorry about that! My flight home, the one date I’ve had circled on my …
Exit Interview: the Cardiff Experience (Part 2)
[after six weeks of exams and traveling we’re picking up where we left off.] Gwyneth/Sioned: Did you change your hair or something? You look…different. Me: *wearing dark glasses and a beret, waving a cigarette around …
Dwi’n hoffi y coffi yma: I like the coffee here
“Today I write part two of my Cardiff Uni reflections” is a sentence I probably said to myself this morning. But I’ve been sitting here for an hour and I can’t stop ranking Cardiff’s cafes …
Exit Interview: the Cardiff Experience (Part 1)
For someone who’s been studying abroad since January, I haven’t blogged much about studying, have I? Not because I haven’t been studying, Mom. Just because big concepts like “academic experience” and “day-to-day life” are things …
26,220 words* on Oxford
Cardiff University takes very good care of its international students. A student-led club called “Give It a Go” sponsors cheap trips to various locales of interest near and far. My friends and I have been …
Ogmore-by-Sea
The sea, the sea, the sea. It rolled and rolled and called to me. Come in, it said, come in. – Sharon Creech, The Wanderer Come in, said the Celtic Sea; specifically, the Bristol Channel. …
Castle #1: Castell Caerdydd
I managed to go an entire week in Cardiff before exploring my first castle, though without the jet lag it would’ve probably happened much sooner. At any rate, on the first weekend after my arrival …