UEA International Student Ambassadors

Summer is here! Longer daylight hours with sunrise at around 4.45am and sunset after 9pm. BBQ, shopping, relaxing on the grass, suntanning, beaches etc are just the things that you need to do during this summer season. Annual Summer Sales has already begun with bargains up to 20-30% off beginning the first week of June! More bargains are coming up as the month goes on with the biggest bargains during Mid-June till Mid-July. It is the time of the year to SHOP!! Festivals are ongoing no matter what season we are in! Summer Festivals are one of the biggest festivals throughout the year. We have just ended the Norfolk and Norwich Festival a couple of days ago but there are more events coming! The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee celebrates 60 years of the Queen’s reign. Celebrations will be held across the UK during the first week of June in 2012. Many people have a day off work or school to celebrate the bank holiday on June 5, 2012. Other planned events for the Queen’s Diamond Jub...

After a  brief, beautiful 2-week spell of great weather, things have turned a bit grim. Day after day of grey, gloomy skies and incessant drizzle test my morale. Coming from India, adapting to the weather in general has been easier than I imagined. Winter was relatively mild, and snow showers were brief and rare and actually good fun. But things started warming up by the end of February; the grass stopped looking glazed in the mornings and the trees, plants and rabbits started looking happier. Summer migrants started returning and early mornings burst into life with the chirping of myriad birds. And then, the weather cleared up. Suddenly the entire campus was bathed in sunshine. Trees around the broad took on a beautiful colour and I was stunned by the surrounding beauty. Here's a photo I posted on the UEA page in Mid-march: Click Here  For two weeks we enjoyed the blissful beginnings of Spring. But it was of course, too good to be true. Now that the April showers have ar...

University is like a Fairground Ride Highs & lows… It’s true! University is like a fairground ride; daunting, captivating and exhilarating. In fact, as any students will substantiate, university is closely akin to Blackpool’s infamous ‘Big Dipper’. It’s a fast ‐ paced ride full of highs and lows. Depending on your disposition, it’s normally those long hours of toil, tears and turmoil preceding an essay submission deadline that make up the vast majority of the lows. However, such a state of delirium is usually induced by a combination of self ‐ imposed sleep deprivation, excessive consumption of caffeine ‐ based liquids and the realisation that having “a few quiet drinks” a few days before the deadline, in hindsight, was perhaps not the best idea. Any self ‐ respecting student experiences this scenario at least once during their university career. However, you can always take heart from the thought that, somewhere, there is some poor soul in a much...

An 8.6-magnitude earthquake struck below the ocean floor off the northern coast of Sumatra in Indonesia on Wednesday, triggering tsunami warnings across the Indian Ocean and causing families in the area to flee their homes in fear and confusion. The quake, which was felt as far away as India and Sri Lanka, was originally reported as magnitude 8.9 before being downgraded by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) to an 8.6. Strong aftershocks were felt in the hours after the quake, including one registering a magnitude of 8.2. The earthquake struck 20 miles under the sea floor about 300 miles from Banda Aceh, the capital of Aceh province.     Its epicenter was only 125 miles away from the spot where the 9.1-magnitude quake struck on Dec. 26, 2004, causing a tsunami that swept away coastal communities in Indonesia, Thailand, Sri Lanka and India. About 230,000 people perished overall. Panicked Aceh residents evacuated buildings and tried to flee the cost by car, causing huge tra...

Easter is the time where Christians celebrate Jesus resurrection from the death. The Easter date depends on the ecclesiastical approximation of the March equinox. It is the first Sunday after the first full moon on or after the March equinox. Easter customs vary across the Christian world, but decorating Easter eggs is a common motif. In the Western world, customs such as egg hunting and the Easter Bunny extend from the domain of church, and often have a secular character. People who regularly attend church often attend special services on Easter Sunday. These may be longer or more elaborate than on other Sundays. In churches, it is generally a festive occasion with an emphasis on the dawn of a new life. In Battersea Park in London, there is a large Easter parade.  In the UK, many people use the day to decorate Easter eggs, share chocolate eggs and participate in Easter egg competitions. Easter eggs are often large hollow chocolate eggs filled with bonbons or other candy. The eg...

Week 11 is ending soon, so does our spring term! and We shall all be looking forward to Easter holidays. Although our easter holidays are only 3 weeeks this year, fear not! We have lots of events lined up this week to bring you the best of spring semester. Global Week was last week and it was a smashing week! We have events including the ISS Society: End of Term Bash and UEA Indian Society: Return of the Bhangra. Tonight the UEA Hong Kong Society is presenting their Annual General Meeting tonight at CD Annex at 7.30pm.  They will be presenting the new committee members for the next academic year 2012/2013. If you are one of the Hong Kong Society members, do come and join and give your support to the applicants as well as the existing committee members. Another event lined up tonight would be the massive ISS End of Term Bash at the Revolution Club in Norwich City Centre from 9.30pm onwards. The event is FREE so there is no excuse of you not being in there tonight! Brin...

I dedicate my drawing to all of you International Students at UEA. I find my life as a student can be a very stressful one, especially when all the deadlines just come across in the same period of time. Nevertheless, all should be paid off at the end. Pay all your efforts of this spring and live to your fullest and make you life colourful. Challenge your mind everyday. The painting resembles meanings, which you might be interested to take into account. Orange as (L) resembles courage: do one thing that scares you everyday and you will see the magic of yourself just come out. Purple (I) resembles freedom: do not limit yourself with you think you cannot do Red (V) resembles natural flow: follow your heart and you will find your way Mixture blend colour (E) resembles diversity: find harmony and live with it Yellow strike resembles energy: eat nicely and share your energy and spirit with others Green dots resembles sustainability: act sustainably and do not do harm to natur...