Hello all, So another semester ends here in sunny old Glasgow. The last few weeks have been very very hectic trying to get all the end of semester assignments done. Quite a few late nights to get essays done followed by quite a few late nights celebrating the finishing of those essays. The day the essay was due was of course the obligatory afternoon/night where the majority of the politics department, despite all nighters, wander between pubs in the West End and pretend they're still undergrads. That was followed with a party the next day, which while fun was very subdued [View Full Entry]

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After the quick trip to London we headed through the Chunnel over to Paris. The trip was quite quick and easy but I was a little disappointed. I don't know what I was expecting but the Chunnel isn't very entertaining. You're essentially just going through a tunnel for 20 minutes and they didn't even announce any sort of warning. I think it be much better if it was one of those glass tunnels like they have in aquariums so you can see what's going on outside. but I digress... Once we arrived in Paris we took the metro to out hotel [View Full Entry]

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So the last 2 weeks have been pretty hectic over here. My family (mom, dad and sister) came over and I met them in London last Friday and we hung out there for a few days before heading over to Paris for a few more and then finally back to Glasgow for my last week of classes and for me to show them around for a few days. Anyways I'll split this up into two posts over the next few days so check back in a little bit for the rest. I headed down to London on the train on Friday [View Full Entry]

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Hello everyone, Meant to write this up sooner but I've been a little distracted with things over here as it is the end of the semester. On that front things are going fairly well and everything is just starting to get wrapped up; 2 weeks left of classes and then all that's left is the dissertation. Last weekend a group of us (I think there were around 12 of us) went over to Edinburgh to see the Six Nations Rugby match of Scotland vs Italy. The Six Nations is a yearly tournament between England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, France and Italy. The [View Full Entry]

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Hello everyone, It's been a little while since the last update, mainly because I'm lazy and there hasn't been too much to write about, and for that I apologize. School has been going fairly well and the first semester is officially over as papers for those class have all been handed in. Now being half way through the second semester, or at least close enough, I can say that my classes are all quite interesting but the main focus for the next few weeks is gearing up to start on the dissertation. Proposals are due in a few weeks and some [View Full Entry]

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Hi everyone, So I go back to Glasgow a week ago after spending about a month in Canada for the Christmas break. It was good to be home but I guess it's back to work for me. The trip back wasn't too bad except that Heathrow was covered in a nice layer of fog that made taking off impossible, so I was stuck there for an extra two hours making my entire layover 6 hours long. It could have been worse though at least I had an essay to write, one due the Monday after I got back, and all the [View Full Entry]

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So I know I said the last post would be the last one for a while but I found out a Christmas tradition that is too great not to share. So today was the last day of classes for the semester and the entire class, prof and all, went out to the pub for a few drinks. As the group began to dwindle a few of us decided to go out to get some pizza for dinner. There was me, David from Ayere (the Langley of Glasgow from my understanding), Hannah from Germany and Laura a Catalan from Spain. I'll warn [View Full Entry]

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Hello everyone, So I don't really have a lot to update but I figured I should sneak in one more before I'm back in Canada. Since the last post (which apparently was almost a month ago) I've mainly been working on getting my essays over here done, which I'm glad to say they are! I wasn't out of school for that long before coming here, technically only for the summer but that last semester was a bit of a joke, so you wouldn't think that getting back into the groove of writing essays would be that hard but I struggled. I [View Full Entry]

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Hello everyone, So it's been a while since the last post and that would be because not too much has been happening that's been news worthy and also because I've been quite busy trying to avoid writing essays (Hey, guess what I'm not doing right now!). Halloween over here was quite a fun event. I, along with about half of my class went over to a friends house to celebrate. It was a good time and there were quite a few impressive costumes. The day after that I went to see Quantum of Solace with some friends and I would definitely [View Full Entry]

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Hey everyone, So there isn't much going on for me to tell you about so I think the next few posts might just be about day to day life in Glasgow. So Banking is the UK is difficult for someone from overseas. I tried to set up a bank account first thing when I got over here but that didn't really work out. For starters you need to be aware that debit cards aren't the same as in Canada; over here they're a mix of credit cards and debit cards on one card. This means that to get one of these [View Full Entry]

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