This piece was originally written by Clarissa in June 2018 for Impact Magazine, Durham University Business School’s award-winning thought-leadership and news magazine.
As a mixed-race, White British & Black Caribbean female,
having recently worked in the City of London for a Japanese bank covering the
Nordic countries…
First Impressions
When I open the door to the first day of my year abroad in Hong Kong, there’s a lot to take in. Dried fish. Skyscrapers. Umbrellas. Fried meat. People. Wet air. Was that a roll of thunder? The little blue dot jumps around my maps app. What is the MTR, and why is it so difficult to find? Will I ever get…
‘BEING ABROAD ALLOWED ME TO FIND MYSELF’, ‘IT HAS BEEN THE BEST YEAR OF MY LIFE’.
How many of us have heard these phrases? As someone who has been now living abroad for five years, I can guarantee, this ‘change’ happens every single year. We are all, regardless of where we live or how much time we spend…
It’s already past the middle of the first year of my degree at Durham, and to think to only one year ago, around this time, I was puzzling over my UCAS choices over which universities to put as my firm and insurance choices. Like many other international students, I did not have a great deal of flexibility in my timetable to…
Morning workout
It’s 7 am and my first warning alarm has gone off by now. I say warning alarm because I usually set about 3 to make sure I actually get out of bed. By 7:15 am I am up and groggily make my way to the bathroom while trying not to wake up my other flatmates. Once dressed up in sports leggings and a dri-fit…
The origins of Pink Speak
A few weeks before my second year at Durham started, I met a man called Babu. He was in charge of a hearing-impaired school in Hyderabad, India. There are very few schools like it because there is so much stigma attached to being deaf in India. In Hyderabad’s rural communities, mothers are…
I was delighted to be able to represent Durham students in my role as Durham SU President at the first International Town & Gown Network Conference at Stellenbosch University, South Africa. I attended the conference with Durham University’s Director of Student Support and Wellbeing, to ensure Durham students were well…
I’m very lucky that I took this year’s pre-sessional course ran by Durham Centre for Academic Development (DCAD). Although it lasted for only four weeks, less than a month, I feel very lucky to have done this as it is very helpful to both my future academic studies and my life in the UK.
As an international student, I felt…
As much as I would like to say my holiday to Berlin started off by looking at flights and hotel reservations, it actually started off on a dull note, by looking at how I could get a visa.
To add perspective, I am an international student from Nigeria, and while this means I can move freely in between countries in the ECOWAS…
Following our visit to the International Commission for Missing Persons, we headed to Srebrenica (see Remembering Srebrenica part 1). The site of Potoćari (the base of the Dutch peacekeepers during the war) it has been converted into a memorial, a museum and multi-media suite built to commemorate the dead and remember the…
