SPAIN IS IN DANGER OF EXTINCTION
UncategorizedFilomena It is Saturday, the 8th of January of 2021. It is half past ten in the morning andCarmen waits for her train at the train station of Alicante. Christmas holidays are over. Afterspending two great weeks with her family and friends in her hometown, Carmen has toleave Alicante and travel to Madrid, where she
Sweden and The Greta Thunberg Effect
UncategorizedOn 20 August 2018, a then 15 year old Greta Thunberg took her bicycle and began her first strike from school. She sat down outside the Swedish Parliament in central Stockholm, holding up a sign saying Skolstrejk för klimatet (School Strike for climate). The strike lasted every school day until the parliamentary elections in Sweden
Challenges for Indonesia as a tropical country in facing extreme climate change
UncategorizedClimate change is a global disaster whose magnitude is estimated to be the same as the Covid-19 pandemic. Later, no country will be able to escape or be free from the threat of climate change. Climate change is a real global threat and has been studied by various scientists who describe that the world is
Sofia from London: A Very Short Introduction
UncategorizedGrab yourself a cup of tea before you read! Who am I? This was a surprisingly difficult question to answer. I’ll start with the basics. My name is Sofia. I am 20 years old, and I am from London. My mother is Austrian, and my father is Nigerian. I am very proud to be from
How Reputation Gets In The Way of Reparations
City life . Climate Change . Culture . Media . Politics . Society . UncategorizedThe Battle For Hearts And Minds To Achieve A Better World. London is a city that can be comfortably prosecuted as guilty for its crimes against the environment. The concrete landscape is impressive, filled with the old and new. An efficient transportation system runs like streams below but above, lies a lack of bike lanes
Being an exchange student in Europe
UncategorizedAfter the COVID-19 pandemic, borders of a lot of countries were closed and it became very difficult to travel. Travelling from an island country is even more difficult. South Korea is almost an island country because of North Korea, so it is impossible to move without taking a plane. I interviewed a Korean girl whose
The new lifestyle of “Mañana, Mañana”
UncategorizedAt Universidad Carlos III of Madrid, a school with around 20,000 students, we can find one student that could be considered to stand out from the crowd. It is Madeleine Nordsjö, a 22 year old girl from Stockholm in Sweden, trying to adapt to her new home in Madrid in Spain. In late February, the
IVAN HERMES: “When I decided to be an actor, I thought I was going to be a waiter for the rest ofmy life, and that didn’t scare me at all.” – By Rubén Tamarit
UncategorizedIván Hermes is a Spanish actor who began his professional career at the age of 22. He made the leap to fame and popularity after his appearance in a youth TV series. Since then, Iván has worked in both theater and film or television. Question: How many years have you been an actor?Answer: As an
Life as an Exchange Student in the Netherlands
UncategorizedIntroduction His name is Adam Raharja, a 21-year-old man born in Jakarta, Indonesia, is currently studying at one of the well-known universities in Taiwan, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology. Mechanical engineering became his provision to try new things in a new country, therefore in the fourth year of semester 1, he decided to
If COVID never happened, how would we known each other …?
Authors . UncategorizedToday, I did an interview with my friend, Anjali Nautiyal. How did we get to know each other? She’s my language partner (Tandem partner): we’ve known each other for “mutual language practice”. Due to COVID, many of exchange students couldn’t study in Japan. Additionally, we had less opportunities to communicate with them. I also expected