GRADUATION!
After a week, I am finally writing this post. I’ve been thinking about it the whole time and rehearsed it over and over again in my head over the past … Continue reading
UEA: The End
MY DEGREE IS OFFICIALLY OVER! 🎉🎉🎉 I haven’t been able to write more this month because of how busy I have been since I came back to UEA after Easter. … Continue reading
Why UEA?
I would choose UEA again a million times. And if I could, I know I would definitely stay here for another year (or more) to continue studying literature! I wouldn’t … Continue reading
UEA Campus and Accommodation Tour
Here it is, finally! I am currently on holiday in New York with my family but I’ve prepared something for you 🙂 If you haven’t been able to visit UEA … Continue reading
Goodbye Mum and Dad — Moving to UEA
I thought that leaving home and France would be a painful and sad moment with lots of tears, but to be perfectly honest, I was so excited. Since I got … Continue reading
Reflection on Being a Student Blogger
When I received an email at the very beginning of my first year of university, explaining that my university’s Marketing team were looking for student willing to start blogs and … Continue reading
TEN YEARS
Today is a very important day and anniversary for me, one I’ve been waiting for for a while and that’s brought countless memories… Today is my 10th guitar anniversary! I … Continue reading
Anne-Sophie… after UEA?
The 1st of September is probably my least favourite day of the year. Until I left school, the 1st of September meant it was time to go back to school, … Continue reading
BCLT Internship Update
My blog is not dead! Apologies, apologies! This is an extremely late post about something I’ve been meaning to write about for over a month – but I have an … Continue reading
UEA FLY Festival 2017
As mentioned previously in my blog, I had the opportunity to be part of the 5th UEA FLY Festival, a literature festival for young people, as a trainee! FLY took … Continue reading
UEA FLY Festival: Poetry with a Punch
I just got home from an amazing day: the first day of the UEA Fly Festival! It’s finally started! I didn’t know about it until I started a press traineeship … Continue reading
Paul Nash Exhibition
I’ve finally visited the Paul Nash exhibition at the Sainsbury Centre! Unfortunately, I hadn’t been able to go to the opening this time, I’d never heard of Paul Nash, and … Continue reading
Antony Gormley: 3X ANOTHER TIME
Antony Gormley’s “3X ANOTHER TIME” demonstrates, once more, how beautiful and unique the UEA campus is. The three statues were installed on campus during the Easter break and I was … Continue reading
UEA FLY Festival: A Reconciliation with Shakespeare and Drama
During my second year of a BA in English Literature at UEA, I took a module in Shakespeare, despite knowing that I was never a big fan of theatre and … Continue reading
FLY Festival Traineeship
More exciting news: I’m a trainee for the FLY festival! The FLY festival is a festival of literature for young people organised by UEA and taking place in Norwich in … Continue reading
Travel Literature: The Turkish Embassy Letters
As mentioned in my previous post, I got my Travel Literature essay back! I got 73%!!! I’m so relieved because with most essays, I usually know I’ll get around 65% … Continue reading
Project grades and graduation update
My degree is over for good now! I got both my project grades back and I did sooooo well I can’t even believe it. I knew I’d probably done well … Continue reading
RANA BEGUM: SPACE LIGHT COLOUR
I really wished I’d managed to write this post as soon as the exhibition opened but as you can see, I have been incredibly busy recently – even with university … Continue reading
Discussing Lemony Snicket and A Series of Unfortunate Events
A few weeks ago, I was asked to write the profile of an author of children’s literature as part of my application to the Fly Festival Press Traineeship. I had … Continue reading
KESHIKI
KESHIKI (meaning “landscape” in Japanese) is the result of global collaboration and international effort. The series of booklets associates the short fiction of eight contemporary writers based in Japan, the … Continue reading
Big C Internship
Over the past few weeks, my life has been a series of unexpected and amazing news! To be honest, I still have trouble believing this is all real and worry … Continue reading
BCLT Internship
This post is the first of a series of excellent news! I got an internship with the British Centre for Literary Translation at UEA! I first heard of the BCLT … Continue reading
Emptiness and Nostalgia
I am sat in Unio, by the windows overlooking the square. I woke up early this morning — Sunday — having planned lots of things to do today, starting with … Continue reading
French Election: Hope, Denial, Anger.
A week ago, the results of the first round of the presidential election in France came out. Last Sunday was also an exciting day, a memorable day, but above all … Continue reading
New Worlds: Science Fiction and Beyond, Project
Yesterday was a day I’d been looking forward to since the beginning of the semester, the project conference organised for the very amazing module I have mentioned in almost every … Continue reading
Easter Holidays in France
The Easter holiday is already over which feels really strange because, for the first time, I have no idea when I’ll next go home in France or if I’ll even … Continue reading
French Presidential Election
This post is quite unusual for my blog and might not be very interesting for many of my readers but I’d like to talk about a big event that’s happening … Continue reading
Busy weekend in London
I am finally back home after a semester (that’s not quite over yet) that went incredibly quickly. I have had such a good semester so far though! 😀 I’ve enjoyed … Continue reading
Nobody gets my name in the UK
I never realised that making people understand my first name would be such a problem in the UK. I believed that, like in France, my Polish surname would be the … Continue reading
Science Fiction: Formative 3
Another formative assessment for Science Fiction! Like the previous one, I had to choose an article that I found interesting and that could be useful for my project and then … Continue reading
Great Yarmouth
In November, I finally went to Great Yarmouth (on my birthday). It was so empty but we got lucky because the weather was perfect! I really enjoyed it and plan … Continue reading
