Off to a Great Start! #HogsAbroad #TBT

Happy Throwback Thursday! Here's a post from spring 2015 about starting a new semester on exchange in England....

Hello all,
I have been in England for just under a month. Everything has exceeded my expectations. The campus is very beautiful and you can tell that is was built in the 60s. Today I went to the weekly market on campus and got fresh vegetables and sausages.

Classes are very different here. I attend each of my four class once a week for two hours instead of three times a week. As a result, I only have classes Monday-Wednesday. I am taking advantage of this this week and leaving to go to London for two days tomorrow. Last weekend I took a train to the historic campus of Cambridge University. The campus is beautiful and the buildings are truly works of art. I have also just booked a trip in mid-February to Scotland the day after my entry exam for graduate school.

I have met so many people from so many places! Just on my dorm floor there is at least one person from Spain, Brazil, Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore and Estonia. The university is 40 percent international. I share a kitchen with 12 other people. This not really a problem because of the different dinner times from our respective home countries.

From what I researched I thought the town would be very quiet and not have much of a night life, but I was very wrong. Many people flock to Colchester for its night life. The shopping is also good. Today I am going to take a bus into town to buy a travel journal and a book for class. It is around 3:30 pm here now and is already starting to get dark! I will make sure to post on Monday to tell you about London.

Cheers,
Spencer Anfosso
University of Essex
Colchester, England

P.S. If you have any questions or have anything you want to know about that I did not address please feel free to email me a sanfosso@uark.edu or facebook me.
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To find out more about the U of A exchange program in Essex, England, visit http://studyabroad.uark.edu/exchange/essex