{"id":571,"date":"2016-08-19T11:47:44","date_gmt":"2016-08-19T10:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/copyright.lboro.ac.uk\/students\/?p=571"},"modified":"2016-09-05T16:39:54","modified_gmt":"2016-09-05T15:39:54","slug":"drama-down-under","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/students\/arts-english-drama\/drama-down-under\/","title":{"rendered":"Drama down under!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you read my initial blog, the plan was to study abroad at Virginia Tech in the USA. Well change of plan\u2026 I am currently studying at Curtin University in Perth, Western Australia as part of my degree. <!--more-->I guess I just thought if I\u2019m going to do this, why not travel half way across the world!\u00a0 My decision to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lboro.ac.uk\/study\/undergraduate\/support\/prospects\/study-abroad\/\">study abroad<\/a> is honestly one of the best decisions I\u2019ve made. I am without a doubt having an amazing time. This opportunity and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lboro.ac.uk\/study\/undergraduate\/support\/placements\/\">placement sandwich year<\/a> were some of the main reasons why I decided to go to Loughborough University.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-645 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2016\/08\/13880302_322655674743643_8082270757025586003_n.jpg\" alt=\"13880302_322655674743643_8082270757025586003_n\" width=\"540\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2016\/08\/13880302_322655674743643_8082270757025586003_n.jpg 540w, https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2016\/08\/13880302_322655674743643_8082270757025586003_n-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2016\/08\/13880302_322655674743643_8082270757025586003_n-370x658.jpg 370w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So the flight here took 18 hours all together, plus a pit stop in Dubai for 3 hours.\u00a0 Getting a flight by myself was a little daunting.\u00a0 I had this kind elderly lady on the plane telling me how much I reminded her of her granddaughter and she even gave me her number &#8211; pulled!\u00a0 I thought I\u2019d find a thousand problems with traveling to the other side of the world, I thought I\u2019d be scared and that something was bound to go wrong, but fortunately, it didn\u2019t. Also, the stories about snakes and spiders being dotted about everywhere are not true! The only snakes and spiders I have seen have been at the petting zoo on campus, or at the wildlife park. Speaking of the wildlife park\u2026 It was amazing; we fed kangaroos, held snakes and got our photograph taken with koalas and wombats!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-646 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2016\/08\/13879467_322655568076987_1129657096647374694_n.jpg\" alt=\"13879467_322655568076987_1129657096647374694_n\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2016\/08\/13879467_322655568076987_1129657096647374694_n.jpg 960w, https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2016\/08\/13879467_322655568076987_1129657096647374694_n-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2016\/08\/13879467_322655568076987_1129657096647374694_n-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2016\/08\/13879467_322655568076987_1129657096647374694_n-370x278.jpg 370w, https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2016\/08\/13879467_322655568076987_1129657096647374694_n-770x578.jpg 770w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There are loads of different trips here. This month, I\u2019m booking a trip to Bali with the friends I\u2019ve made here. So far we\u2019ve planned on going to the elephant safari park, all the lovely beaches, surfing and going on a hike! In September I\u2019m planning to explore North Western Australia, with others at Curtin! We will be feeding wild dolphins, swimming with whale sharks at Shark Bay, a glass bottom boat and snorkelling tour and visiting the Nigaloo Reef. I couldn\u2019t be more excited. Then before I come home at Christmas time, I hope to visit Melbourne and Sydney and I am desperate to see the Great Barrier Reef!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-650\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2016\/08\/crop13892016_322655921410285_1900906738123465293_n-1.jpg\" alt=\"crop13892016_322655921410285_1900906738123465293_n\" width=\"540\" height=\"465\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2016\/08\/crop13892016_322655921410285_1900906738123465293_n-1.jpg 540w, https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2016\/08\/crop13892016_322655921410285_1900906738123465293_n-1-300x258.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2016\/08\/crop13892016_322655921410285_1900906738123465293_n-1-370x319.jpg 370w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Aside from the sightseeing, even my accommodation here looks like a holiday home; I\u2019m walking around thinking about how different it all looks. My friends almost always laugh at my fascination with the trees here, they\u2019re so tall and there are palm trees! Perth itself is amazing, after only being here two weeks I have already visited Fremantle, Scarborough Beach, City Beach, Hilary Boat Harbour, Kings Park, and next weekend we\u2019re heading to Rottnest Island on a ferry.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-651\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2016\/08\/13900088_322655528076991_4591670247926469245_n.jpg\" alt=\"13900088_322655528076991_4591670247926469245_n\" width=\"877\" height=\"877\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2016\/08\/13900088_322655528076991_4591670247926469245_n.jpg 877w, https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2016\/08\/13900088_322655528076991_4591670247926469245_n-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2016\/08\/13900088_322655528076991_4591670247926469245_n-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2016\/08\/13900088_322655528076991_4591670247926469245_n-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2016\/08\/13900088_322655528076991_4591670247926469245_n-370x370.jpg 370w, https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2016\/08\/13900088_322655528076991_4591670247926469245_n-770x770.jpg 770w, https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2016\/08\/13900088_322655528076991_4591670247926469245_n-144x144.jpg 144w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 877px) 100vw, 877px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Curtin arranges frequent barbecues and there\u2019s been some unusual foods on offer. My village made a Kangaroo curry for our welcome meal and they even serve shark on chips. I\u2019ve still not tried it but must say I\u2019m intrigued! There\u2019s also loads of random really cool aesthetics here such as paintings, random bean bags, hammocks and they even have sleeping pods in the library!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-652\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2016\/08\/13903193_322655821410295_4621572708601852811_n.jpg\" alt=\"13903193_322655821410295_4621572708601852811_n\" width=\"540\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2016\/08\/13903193_322655821410295_4621572708601852811_n.jpg 540w, https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2016\/08\/13903193_322655821410295_4621572708601852811_n-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2016\/08\/13903193_322655821410295_4621572708601852811_n-370x658.jpg 370w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve made lots of new friends here, the Australians are really friendly! I\u2019ve also met British exchange students, from Reading, Tarleton and Edinburgh. People refer to us as \u201cThe British girls\u201d as we seem to do everything together. Don\u2019t get me wrong though I\u2019ve also met a lot of other people from different countries and it\u2019s so interesting to find out how our cultures differ.\u00a0 I\u2019ve met an American who doesn\u2019t know what a crumpet is! There are also weird Australian phrases, like \u2018fair dinkum\u2019 which means \u2018fair enough\u2019, or \u2018she\u2019ll be right\u2019 instead of saying \u2018it\u2019s going to be alright\u2019. Or my personal fav, thongs are flip flops not underwear. I was a bit held back when my lecturer told me that I\u2019m not allowed to wear thongs in the TV studio. You know what else is funny? Its winter here, and they think its freezing, I feel like wearing a bathing suit to my lectures the sun is that warm!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-573 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2016\/08\/image-15-08-16-05-53-1-e1471603205805.jpeg\" alt=\"image-15-08-16-05-53-1\" width=\"640\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2016\/08\/image-15-08-16-05-53-1-e1471603205805.jpeg 640w, https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2016\/08\/image-15-08-16-05-53-1-e1471603205805-300x167.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2016\/08\/image-15-08-16-05-53-1-e1471603205805-370x206.jpeg 370w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ok so you probably want to know what the student life is like here, I\u2019m currently doing Screen Arts and Theatre. The modules\/units I\u2019ve chosen are actually really enjoyable, I\u2019m doing Experimental Screens, Technical Theatre Fundamentals, Collaborative Theatre and Screen Practices.\u00a0 They include making films, writing scripts and being trained in production side of theatre, with lighting, sound, stage management and costume. I am studying Shakespearean and Greek theatre which I find really interesting. I also get to watch and analyse films, which is pretty cool!\u00a0 There\u2019s also a lot of clubs available here, although not as many as Loughborough offers I must admit. I have joined cheerleading, photography club, and literacy volunteering for children.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-584\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2016\/08\/image-15-08-16-05-53-12-e1471603037843.jpeg\" alt=\"image-15-08-16-05-53-12\" width=\"640\" height=\"444\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2016\/08\/image-15-08-16-05-53-12-e1471603037843.jpeg 640w, https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2016\/08\/image-15-08-16-05-53-12-e1471603037843-300x208.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2016\/08\/image-15-08-16-05-53-12-e1471603037843-370x257.jpeg 370w, https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2016\/08\/image-15-08-16-05-53-12-e1471603037843-70x50.jpeg 70w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I am aware I could easily get distracted by all the cool and new things to do here, so I\u2019m trying my best to stay on top of things and all the lecturers here are really helpful and supportive \u2013 plus I kind of love my modules\u00a0 so it widens my attention span! The lifestyle in Oz is also very different, they get up early and go to bed early and some of the shops close at 6pm (no midnight snacks unfortunately), and a lot of the clubs close at 12pm. At first I thought they were crazy, as back home we usually leave at that time, but now I kind of like it. The nights out tend to be on a Wednesday or a Saturday, and an early night on a Wednesday means I\u2019m not a tragedy walking into my 8am lecture on a Thursday! My timetable is Monday to Thursday \u2013 so I basically have a long weekend, additional to having short working days which allows me a lot of time to both keep up with my studies and explore Australia.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-575 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2016\/08\/image-15-08-16-05-53-3.jpeg\" alt=\"image-15-08-16-05-53-3\" width=\"638\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2016\/08\/image-15-08-16-05-53-3.jpeg 638w, https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2016\/08\/image-15-08-16-05-53-3-300x219.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2016\/08\/image-15-08-16-05-53-3-370x270.jpeg 370w, https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2016\/08\/image-15-08-16-05-53-3-70x50.jpeg 70w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 638px) 100vw, 638px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I honestly couldn\u2019t be more amazed by this opportunity Loughborough has given me! Just think you\u2019re more likely to regret something you never did, rather than something you went for that didn\u2019t work out.\u00a0 Loughborough offers options to study abroad for a semester in your second year (which I\u2019m doing) and if you choose a four year degree then you also have the option to either have a work placement or to study abroad for the whole year. My friend Grace is doing this and I can\u2019t explain how jealous I am, might not come home (sorry mum)\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Anyway I best get to my lecture! Hope all you prospective students achieved the exam results you wanted, get yourselves to Loughborough!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you read my initial blog, the plan was to study abroad at Virginia Tech in the USA. 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