Imogen is an English literature student spending her third year studying in Iceland. She prefers drawing to writing these days but needs to blog about Iceland because it’s so interesting. She misses Leeds but doesn’t […]
Postcards from Abroad: Barcelona, Spain
When I think about the fact that I’ve spent a month abroad already, I have to pinch myself a little bit. That’s a whole month without ringing my mum, crying about how much I want […]
Postcards from Abroad: Calamocha, Spain
Ella is a third year French and Spanish student who loves cooking almost as much as she loves eating. She’s just spent three months in France and her main worry about her year abroad is […]
Long Distance Love
Another Academic year has commenced. Another relationship faux pas has been achieved. It may or may not be known that this time last year I did the ‘forbidden’ thing of entering into a relationship with […]
A year in Perugia
Having just returned to Leeds after spending a year abroad in Italy as an Erasmus student, I am feeling like a fresher, what with having to readjust to life as a student in Leeds all […]
Je Ne Sais Quoi: A Year Abroad
Molly Walker-Sharp tells The Gryphon about her personal experience of her year in Northern France and the pros and cons of choosing to study abroad. With study abroad opportunities becoming more and more popular in […]
Blogs | Alone Time: A Checklist
I am often complaining about being alone. One of my ambitions for my year abroad was to overcome this huge character flaw, and embrace the solitude of which I know I have plenty. In my […]
Travel | Frog out of water – The joy of French university strike action
Our foreign correspondent in Montpellier experiences the recent university strike action first hand, but can she put aside her British embarrassment and embrace the joy of le revolution? One thing that really strikes me about […]
Blogs | I Wanna Scream and Kraut and Let It All out!
After weeks of anticipation I have finally made it to Germany, Heidelberg to be exact. I am currently two weeks into my 10 month stay and it has definitely been a learning curve. For a […]
News | Amanda Knox retrial begins
The retrial over the murder of Leeds University student Meredith Kercher begun this week in Florence, Italy. Kercher was found stabbed to death in 2007 whilst on a year abroad in the Italian town of […]
Return from the Continenent
So the time has come to depart from the land of beer and chocolate back to the city of whatever Leeds is famous for apart from the indoor market and the Otley Run. A time […]
Final Farewell
I have spent my year abroad working for HELLO! Magazine in Madrid, feverishly writing stories about Justin Bieber’s latest haircut and why Harry Styles cannot keep it in his pants. On top of my forty […]