Going home for the holidays, at least for me, is bittersweet. I am grateful to get out after a long term and take a little break, with that train ride back being one long decompression. Reflecting on each term’s many up and downs becomes something of a ritual. The first snow of the season, the […]
As a person of colour and an international student, you hear cautionary tales about the lack of diversity in Durham, and it is something that can take some adjustment. There are many stereotypes about international students – that we are exceptionally wealthy, careless, and cliquey, that we make no effort to integrate or relate to […]