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Category: Silvia in England

A Collection of Short Stories and Memories

June 30, 2022 Leave a comment

Check out a PDF version of this project here. Check out an accessible text version of each chapter here.

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Coexisting Bubbles

December 22, 2021 Leave a comment

I am writing this post in front of my window, back home in California. The sky is blue and the trees remain green whilst I’m reflecting back on the gray skies and bare branches of Oxford when I left a couple of days ago. It’s a very strange feeling to be back at home, in a climate and setting so

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An Interview with an Oxford Student on One’s “Bubble”

November 30, 2021 Leave a comment

Interviewee:  Name: Sainbayar Erdenebulgan Home: From Mongolia, but grew up in northwest London College: New College Major: History I interviewed my friend Sainbayar on the ideas of personal “bubbles” in a chain coffee shop called Pret a Manger which is always packed with students and queues out the door. We met at a club I joined (OUAPS – Oxford University

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Influences on Bubbles Abroad

October 20, 2021 Leave a comment

It’s been a full two weeks since I stepped off the taxi into the grounds of St Catherine’s College here at Oxford University. The days from then until now have been a blur of meeting new people, figuring out the dining hall, and wandering the city of dreaming spires. I’ve made many new friends, bought Cherry Bakewell tea, and fangirled

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Preparing to Expand My Bubble Abroad

September 28, 2021 Leave a comment

We all live in little bubbles – created by our habits, the people we surround ourselves with, our careers, and all the other bits and pieces that make up this tiny ecosystem we build for ourselves. As we go through our lives, these bubbles can expand and shrink. When we meet new people or experience something new, they expand. When

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Reflections on a Semester Away: A Look into the Varied Experiences of Visiting Students

March 31, 2023 ccolleton@amherst.edu Leave a comment

Beginning My Reflections  Boy, what a semester it has been. As is always the case with me, time felt so slow– too slow– in the beginning, but looking back at it from the end, it went by extremely quickly. My semester in Japan has been full of surprises (both good and occasionally not-so-good) and so with this post, I will

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Interview with a Student from Sorbonne Nouvelle

March 31, 2023 ccolleton@amherst.edu Leave a comment

Hi everyone! For this blog, I spoke to my friend Narymane, a student at the French university Sorbonne Nouvelle, about her experiences and views on race and colonial relations in France. I was excited to talk to Narymane because most of what I learned in France about the political and social environment was from my professors, who were all GenXers.

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Tips and Tricks and Learning New Things in Madrid

March 14, 2023 wcarlo Leave a comment

¡Hola a todes! ¡Bienvenido a vuelta a mi blog de sustanabilidad (translation: welcome back to my sustainability blog). I’ve now been in Spain for approximately 24 hours, and, my goodness, has it been a wild ride! I can’t remember the last time when I felt more overwhelmed—and I once moved across the country to live in a new city by

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The Eiffel Tower from afar lit up at night

First Impressions and Preconceived Notions of France

February 15, 2023 ccolleton@amherst.edu Leave a comment

Hi everyone! This blog post will talk about some of my first impressions of Paris, the largest and most surprising differences I noticed between Paris and the United States, and some of my personal experiences and feelings as I spent time abroad.    As I settled into my classes at Hamilton in France and Sorbonne Nouvelle, I was stricken by

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