Posted by Richard in English on July 15, 2013
Last week I said what was good about returning to the UK after an extensive Erasmus year in Italy. That’s the good news. Whilst I’ve been preparing for the International Summer School I haven’t had time to catch Post-Erasmus Syndrome yet, but it’s certainly been difficult not to notice the things which are most obviously […]
Posted in Erasmus | Tagged Books, Erasmus, Italy, Summer, Third Year Abroad, Turin
Posted by Richard in English on July 7, 2013
It’s currently too early to make a post about Post-Erasmus Syndrome and its many horrors. It is, however, the perfect time to make sweeping knee-jerk statements about what benefits await an Erasmus student returning from Italy to the UK. In a list. 1) Pubs. Well, that’s an incriminating thing to start with, isn’t it? No […]
Posted in Erasmus, Leisure, Study Abroad | Tagged Erasmus, Italy, List, Third Year Abroad, Turin |
Posted by Richard in English on June 18, 2013
We pray for heat and when it comes it’s just too hot. That’s what I’ve learned here in Italy. It’s the moral of this story. I do recall some hot days in the David Wilson library in Leicester, but nothing quite like this. Where the air turns to carbonara sauce and you have to punch […]
Posted in City, Erasmus, Health, Study Abroad | Tagged Erasmus, Italy, Third Year Abroad, Turin, Weather
Posted by Richard in English on May 30, 2013
The time of year is currently that of the humble exam. For a more detailed explanation of the way English students are assessed on an Erasmus year in Italy, please see my previous posts here and also here. There you’ll find the differences between the Italian (Torinese) and English system explained fairly clearly. What I’m […]
Posted in Erasmus, Exams, Study Abroad, Studying | Tagged Erasmus, Exams, Italy, Oral Exams, Third Year Abroad, Turin
Posted by Richard in English on April 27, 2013
This is simply a postcard to say that, yes, the weather is being weird everywhere. We’re not even safe in Italy. Overly warm winter — although it didn’t feel like it — and then overly cold March. Followed by overly rainy April (don’t give me that April Showers baloney). The spring has had several false […]
Posted in Erasmus, Health, Study Abroad | Tagged Erasmus, Italy, Third Year Abroad, Turin, Weather
Posted by Richard in English on March 19, 2013
A major Italian city needs a major Italian transport system, and Turin has just the ticket. The ticket in question costs €1,50 (with the current state of the economy I won’t bother to give you a currency conversion, but you can at least be assured that’s still less than £1.50), and it allows you 90 […]
Posted in City, Erasmus, Money, Study Abroad | Tagged Bus, Cycling, Erasmus, Italy, Public Transport, Third Year, Turin
Posted by Richard in English on March 11, 2013
A large portion of the students at Leicester — and any university — spend quality time frequenting the coffee houses on campus. In Leicester’s case that may mean the Library Café or Café Piazza, or perhaps Starbucks if they don’t like coffee.* For Erasmus students in Italy, coffee almost inevitably becomes an invariable factor in […]
Posted in Erasmus, Health, Leisure, Money, Study Abroad | Tagged Cafe, Coffee, Drink, Erasmus, Food, Italy, Turin, Year Abroad
Posted by Richard in English on March 4, 2013
We’re in the second semester now here in Turin, which means three new modules. I hand-picked them myself. For anyone wishing to study English Literature abroad, I think they’re a rather good representation of the kind of things to expect. This post is, of course, the sequel to the Emmy-award-winning Module Madness I put up […]
Posted in Erasmus, Revision, Study Abroad, Studying | Tagged English Literature, Erasmus, Italy, Modules, Optional Modules, Third Year, Third Year Abroad, Turin
Posted by Richard in English on February 26, 2013
Here we have the sequel to a simple photographic post I made before Christmas, in which I intend to make a picture tell 999+ words. Included are pictures from my visit to some fellow Erasmus students in Bologna, Turin in the snow, and some rare curiosities for your consumption. That’s all for this week, […]
Posted in City, Erasmus, Leisure, Study Abroad | Tagged Bologna, Erasmus, Italy, Photography, Photos, Third Year, Turin, Year Abroad
Posted by Richard in English on February 10, 2013
US Secretary of State John Kerry’s recent politically-suspicious decision not to speak French has made me think a bit about the realities of monolingualism, whether real or pretend. Here in Turin, English is not widely spoken, and not widely spoken fluently. Naturally, I think the likelihood of finding someone who speaks English in Italy is […]
Posted in Erasmus, Friends, Study Abroad, Studying | Tagged English, Erasmus, Italian, Italy, Languages, Third Year, Turin, Year Abroad
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