UEA International Student Ambassadors

Chinese New Year also know as the Chinese Lunar New Year is the most important traditional Chinese festival. Chinese New Year is celebrated in countries with signigicant Chinese populations, such as Hong kong, Macaus, Malaysia or even in UK. Although Chinese New Year is not an offical holiday, many studetns like me celebrate Chinese New Year with friends here ! We usually have a so-called 'reunion dinner' on New Year's Eve where all the members of the maily, near or far, get together for the celebration. My favourite food from the Chinese New Year is Nian Gao (it is like a Chinese New Year sticky rice pudding) of course. Its pronunciation is a homeophone for a more prosperous year. While my favourite activity in CNY is getting red packets (with real money inside of course) from married couples or the elderly. Usually they pass out red packets only to unmarried juniors. To get the red packets from couples, we need to say New Year Greeting and a married person would not

During my first semester at UEA, I attended a memorable concert with The Streets at the LCR. Having bought tickets to see him for a second time on campus this February, I was quite surprised when I discovered the cover art for his fifth and final album (being released just over a week from now). Not only is my time at UEA marked by a Streets concert at the beginning and the end of it (this being my final year), but the cover of ‘ Computers & Blues ‘ , features Norfolk Terrace! Norfolk Terrace is, along with Constable Terrace, design by Sir Denys Lasdun, and a grade II listed building . Together with other buildings on campus, the Ziggurats have won UEA over 20 awards for its architecture.  The feel of the campus, consisting of glass and concrete combined with large green areas, is one of the many things I appreciate about this university. Therefore, I enjoy discovering others, like The Streets, who share my enthusiasm. And I have seen it before. Last February, footage of the U

Hi Everybody, These seems delicious and economical recipes for whom want to have easy, quick, and delicious meals to try out. Cinnamon toast Ingredients slice of bread sugar cinnamon butter or margarine Method 1.Preheat the grill to a medium heat. 2.Toast the bread and then spread with the butter. 3.Sprinkle the slices generously with the sugar and cinnamon. 4. Place under grill until the sugar has melted and the butter starts to bubble 5.Serve with a hot chocolate. Tuna Salad Ingredients 1 tin tuna in veg oil, drained 1/2 onion, diced 1/2 lettuce head, sliced thinly 1 tomato, diced BLACK pepper salt Method 1. Mix tuna and veggies in bowl and flavour with black pepper and salt 2. The black pepper and hints of veg oil gives it a nice flavour and the oil and tomato juice combined acts as your salad dressing. 3. You can obviously add whatever other greens & veg or cheese you have in the fridge - cucumber, carrots etc. GO WILD! 4. If it's not the end of the mo

Most people are very possessive of their culture, and as international students, find it hard leaving that culture behind. Fears of not having similar people around, not having access to new music and not being able to gain access to the foods loved so much. Some people enjoy having their native foods wherever in the world they find themselves. Some even go through the trouble of travelling with these items. The worst, is actually finding oneself in a place where you can't have access to all these things. However, it isn't like that at the University of East Anglia, Norwich. It might rather be a challenge identifying a particular food that you can't find in the city. Or a challenge to find no one who shares the same culture as yourself. Not only is the University big on diversity , but regardless of the suburban nature of the city, so is Norwich. At least for West Africans, I can confidently say that you'll definitely feel like you're at a home away from home. When

Hello everyone!  Its the 2nd week of the 2nd Semester! Its time to tell stories! =D During the X'mas holidays, I went back home to Brunei i.e. Home to celebrate Christmas and New Year. It was short one month holiday but it was definitely worth it despite the long flight hours and of course the unforgettable Jet-lag sessions! I was lucky enough on the day I left Heathrow. It was the start of one of the worst ever snowstorm to occur in the UK in history. My flight was delayed for about an hour and it few off just hours before the snowstorm hit London! But nevertheless, I was glad I made it home! Brunei is a place, not much on shopping but more on its food, culture and environment. Sight-seeing is a must in Brunei and exploring the wonders of its aborigines people is most definitely interesting. Brunei is located on an island that looks like a chicken on the map, called Borneo Island. It is situated in between two East Malaysian states, Sabah and Sarawak, and above Kalimantan,

Santa Village ! We didn't have enough time in the Santa Village as there were too many people awaiting to see Mr. Santa and we spent too much time on the queue!!  The Santa Village is really cold and beautiful, you can see the sparkling Cedars. Yet the thing is that Santa Village is becoming more and more commerical, they got  many stores selling souvenirs. Plus the photo taken with Santa is really expensive.     A massive number of mails from worldwide to Santa! and some souvenirs from Santa Village.   P.S. At the end of the trip, we went back to Helsinki for a bit and then catch our flight back to London. Very unluckily, the original plan was going back Reading at one-ish in the morning (actually Reading is only half hour away from London) , but the delay of flight, delay of connecting the flight to the airport, plus the delay of train and all kinf of stuff make me go back at 6am !  Super Duper Tire Trip! Venus Hong Kong Ambassador

Hi everyone, How was your holiday? I guess it must be so much fun! Some of you may choose to travel, see new place, some stay in Norwich or around Norwich. I chose to come back to my home country, Indonesia and stayed with my mom, dad, and my dogs. It was a nice period of time where I could meet my friends, my old bed, and also hugging my dogs. Although it was a short period of holiday, there were enough time to try different local food that I have always missed when I study or work abroad, such as these food as presented in the pictures below. Noodle, meet balls and super duper hot crips (sort of like local Walkers) "Sekoteng", like hot ginger alle with jelly and nuts "Tahu Gejrot" Tofu with hot and sweet sauce "Teh Tarik and Moci" Teh tarik is tea with milk and moci is a sweet traditional puffy cake During my holiday time, with support from Pete, I was working part time in Indonesia to present UEA in one of the agents meeting. It was a pleas

As a day trip organised by Norwich Business School, many of us from NBS went to London together last Friday. The weather was as "good" as usual and we broke into small groups to explore London at our own leisure. I ended  up going to the Design Museum, which is by near the Tower Bridge. Another nice trip! Josh. Taiwanese Student Ambassador

Finally it comes to the brand new start of Twenty- Eleven. Happy New Year Eveyone ! I just can't wait to tell you all about my trip in Helsinki and Lapland which was so much fun! I hope all of you remember, in my previous post, I talked about the Northern Night stuff, and YES I went to Finland for Xmas! Capital of Finalnd, Helsinki. Helsinki is a very concentrated and modern city, me and my sister spent a day to walk around, in which, we found a really delicious soup bar located in the market.                                           This is the seafood soup we ordered, the soup is massive and they have unlimited supply of bread! We are satisfied! We wen to the Central Station at that night to meet the local tour people and started off our road trip to Lapland. The focuses of the trip are the Husky ride as well as the snow mobile, which are the most memorable activities ever in my life. You can't imagine how adorable the Husky was like and how exciting the snow mobile

I have been very lucky for the past two years and have managed to scrounge up the necessary funds for a flight back to California every summer and every Christmas. This year, unfortunately, it was time to save up, so Christmas found me somewhere very different from El Dorado Hills, California. Vilnius, Lithuania! In my first year at uni I managed to snag myself a Lithuanian boyfriend and this Christmas, he was nice enough to invite me home for the holidays since I couldn't be with my family in California. At the moment, besides a single weekend trip to Amsterdam, I have yet to do any travelling on the continent. That said, my two weeks in Lithuania were the first two weeks I spent in a European country besides the UK, and it was amazing! It was freezing (at its lowest, it hit -15°C), especially considering the fact that I'd never been through a real "white" Christmas. I built my first snowman, had my first snowball fight, and saw real icicles for the first time

Today I would like to speak about our Europe trip. First of all, I would like to say that it was really wonderful to see new places, to meet friends studing there, although we got tired after 12 days of walking :) Our first detination was Amsterdam. I would just say that you can never get bored in this city - full of fun, lots of entertainment. Also it is very easy for those tourists who speaks only in English, because almost everyone in the city knows English. I also liked Madame Tussauds which is just near The Dam Square. The other beautiful sides of the city is the places where rivers divide the city, you can get very nice view above the bridge. The second destination was Berlin. This city firstly attracts you with its magnificent view and buildings. When we were there it was snowing hard in Berlin and snow added another beaty to the city. We met our friend there who is currently studing at UEA and she guided us in the city. Moreover, there were free tours that you can easily joi