Last August I left home — marriage, family and friends, work — to follow my intellectual curiosity, open to where I might end up. Almost a year later, it’s hard to believe that I’m almost at the end of this grand journey. I departed Italy a week ago after graduating with my masters in bioethics and… Read More Meeting Slavoj Žižek and other Croatian adventures
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BY SHEILA PHAM. It’s cost me more than $20,000 to complete two undergraduate degrees and a masters in Australia, which I’ve gradually paid off. To me, this didn’t actually seem too expensive for a good quality education. But after studying at KU Leuven for a semester, my ideas about…
Last night I watched Eurovision with my classmates, along with a group of young students who also live in the same student residence. I won’t say too much about Eurovision here but during the course of the long night it became clear to me that it definitely needs a hilarious commentary track…! In any case, it’s a… Read More When the world is at your doorstep
Exactly two months from now I’ll be a newly minted graduate in bioethics – assuming I finish my thesis next month – and packing my bags for the next country. At the moment I don’t even know what that next country will be, though I suspect it might be Croatia for a few days of R&R by… Read More A brief fling with The Netherlands
By the time I arrived in Leuven in September, I had resolved to enrol in Italian classes alongside my masters. I was told that Dutch wouldn’t be needed in Belgium or The Netherlands because most people speak English, which isn’t the case in Italy. Belgians were happy to code-switch to English and would deprecatingly reassure… Read More Being gezellig in Leuven and Nijmegen
Years ago I saw The Spanish Apartment and thought it was an amusing but morally questionable film. Maybe I was a little sheltered but after I watched it I remember thinking, “Is this really what it means to be on an Erasmus?!” Well, given that I’m at least ten years older than the characters in… Read More A long goodnight kiss to Belgium
The Travels of Elephant Woman 