#thirdyearabroad

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Sunset over Bergamo from Citta Alta, November 2016

[chan-hoi-kay]

Nothing like a beer to appreciate a beautiful view 🍻🌊 #stuttgarterhofbräu 。 。 。 。 #German #beer #stuttgart #germany #neuhausenamrheinfall #switzerland #rheinfall #beautiful #nature #valley #waterfall #europe #lake #river #rhein #spring #travelgram #placementstudents #weekendtrip #thirdyearabroad #astonplacements #placementyear (at Neuhausen am Rheinfall, Switzerland)

[ma-vie-au-soleil]

Hello! I am applying to Essec and was wondering if you could give me an insight on how the classes are, the social life is, and whether it truly is worth going there. Also, are the classes truly all in english? I only have a basic level of french. Thank you so much!

Hey! sorry for the late reply, hope it’s not too late

ESSEC is great! Social life is amazing there, i would suggest going into halls (Cergy Le Haut if possible) as it’s much more sociable than living in Paris (which i do) 

Classes are either in English or French, you choose, but it’s completely fine to and a lot of internationals do take classes all in english

Hope this helps! Let me know if there’s anything else you want to know!

[foureyesyetstillblind]

I learnt a new word (das Fettnäpfchen = blunder/faux pas, i.e. the cutest German word ever) and so I had to find an excuse to put it into my new blog post.

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Costa Magica, Feb 2015. Caribbean Cruise. 

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A moody Venice, October 2016. 

[chan-hoi-kay]

Just before I played black jack and lost my money 🙃🙃🙃 #oops 。 。 。 #monaco#montecarlo#montecarlocasino#beautiful#architecture#europe#frenchriviera#travel#travelgram#hkig#euig#ukig#cotedazur#astonplacements#placementyear#placementstudent#thirdyearabroad (at Monte Carlo Casino)

[foureyesyetstillblind]

I changed my blog around a bit, so that means you should definitely have a peep at it. More posts to follow obvs...

[ashcroftabroad-blog]

Caribbean Cruise Life

During the first two and a half weeks of February, the schools take a half term for Carnival. As the smaller carnivals began to heat up on Guadeloupe, I embarked on a last-minute cruise around the Caribbean to see a few more of the beautiful islands in the West Indies. We were fortunate enough to have seen St. Martin, Dominican Republic, Ila Catalina, Tortola, Antigua and Martinique on our week long adventure and crammed in some fantastic tours of the islands and their main sights. 

[chan-hoi-kay]

Cascade Du Château 💦 #views。 。 。 。 #Nice #château #waterfall #beautiful #nature #france #europe #ukig #hkig #euig #travel #travelgram #placementyear #thirdyearabroad #placementstudent #astonplacements (at Cascade Du Château)

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Motorbiking through Madrid city at night- trying to understand an Andalucian and arguing with my mother

19/10/2014

Rich toddler activities

I think I' going to have to move back in, slept a-m-a-z-i-n-g-l-y. We had breakfast out in Santa Domingo as Alex had rollerskating class (because along with football, tennis, dance, horse-riding, swimming and Judo, that's what rich toddlers do)

We abandoned him at class to go to the mums business and set up the new IKEA furniture to Spanish Disney music. Was good fun learning that I am terrible at putting together a display cabinet.

Some splinters and much shame later, we picked up Alex and went to my favourite, plaza Norte! 

Lightbulb shopping (muy exciting)

After some exciting shopping of browsing lightbulbs and wood samples we went out for lunch in an Italian restaurant and spent 30minutes listening to a grumpy, demanding Alex wailing "where's my pizza?"

We went home for a siesta (i packed). Shortly, one nutella tortilla later, it was time to go back home. We packed the motorbike with my things, laughed at how terrible I looked in my frumpy hoody and half done up leather jacket and a helmet on my head, said goodbye and I got on the back on the motorbike off from the mountains to Madrid.

Motorbiking through the city

We swerved in and out of traffic on the motorway (me not daring to move in a desperate attempt not to die) We drove right through Madrid from San Agustin to plaza eliptica, through the Madrid city lights, it was beautiful. 

We then got off and asked the churros lady for the bus station, and Al who had already motorbiked me the whole way there, waited for half an hour for my bla bla car! 

Arguing with my mother

I mean I love my crazy mum to bits, but shes not the most ...mumsie of mums. My mother who never calls me (only whatsapps me if someone dies and I have to call her on my birthday), sent me a whatsapp out of the blue asking me how I was getting to Zafra. I stupidly was honest and said bla bla car... #regrets.

This led to an incredible overdramatic rant about how Im going to die, dangerous at night, how im stupid and never think and how Im purporsly putting myself in danger with me saying the generic "times have changed mum!" "listen to me, don't criticize something you don't understand!" furiously typing away as fast as my fingers would go, insisting to my mum of how safe I was as my driver sat one hand on the wheel, the other texting, momentarily stopping to drink from his can of beer. 

Andaluce

I've made a fair bit of progress with my Spanish recently, my Spanish family being shocked and congratulating me on how quickly I was jabbering on. (Im allowed to be proud of this). However, being on my own in the car with an Extremeno and an Andaluce for almost 6 hours, in the middle of the night... NOPE. I was hoping for a nap before my first monday at school tomorrow but they were really chatting with thick southern accents that made me doubt i ever knew spanish

Tripping again...

Eventually at 3am I got home back to my apartment, opening the door and tiptoeing in, then falling flat on my face over a pair of trainers by the door

I have to get to work for my first day of my first full week, so byeee!

Em xx

p.s tengo suenooooo