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The Erasmus Diaries: Chapter 4

I am currently being snowed under by assignments and exams that I was only made aware of a week before they happen. I never thought that I would miss Irish bureaucracy but after my third letter from the CAF (student housing assistance) informing me that my documents are STILL not …

The Erasmus Diaries: Chapter 3

A smile is universal. When confronted by German ticket inspectors, make your eyes wide and fill with tears and plead complete ignorance. Walk to the top of the steps even though you don’t want to because the view will be worth it.  For the Halloween break, the Strasbourgers decided that …

The Erasmus Diaries: Chapter 2

It is now October and life is slowly beginning to make sense here. In a way, time has seemed simultaneously so fast and so slow. It is only October, but I have submitted my first assignment, my parents are visiting in a couple of weeks and for the most part, …

The Erasmus Diaries: Chapter One

I am sitting in a coffee shop off the main square in Strasbourg. Myself and my roommate Clíodhna have been exiled from our apartment as it is currently undergoing its second round of treatment for a particularly nasty bed-bug infestation. I still look like a smallpox victim. There are two …