17 episodes

Weekly stories of international student experiences in the UK, as lived by people from all around the world. Tune in for perspective #culturalawareness

Statelessmess Anas Abdelaal

    • Society & Culture
    • 4.9 • 8 Ratings

Weekly stories of international student experiences in the UK, as lived by people from all around the world. Tune in for perspective #culturalawareness

    From Colombia - S1 To the UK

    From Colombia - S1 To the UK

    This episode features Cristina from Colombia. She moved to the UK to do her bachelors and masters degrees in MedChem, Biotech and Business. Her 5-year UK journey was not as smooth as she thought it would be. She struggled, but she came out stronger than she ever was.

    Cristina is now in Colombia with her family. She is a certified yoga teacher and writes professional articles on Medium as a hobby.

    Support Cristina on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/cristina_rojas_yoga/) and Medium (https://medium.com/@cristinarojascolloridi).

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    Music by Kevin MacLeod from incompetech.com

    • 52 min
    Expats in the Gulf - S1 To the UK

    Expats in the Gulf - S1 To the UK

    This episode features Marwan & Kumail, an Egyptian and a Pakistani who lived most of their lives in the Gulf countries, and moved together to the UK. They initially moved for university education, and after graduating they started a tech start-up together in the UK. Now they've moved to full-time work (still in the UK!).

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    Music by Kevin MacLeod from incompetech.com

    • 39 min
    From Greece - S1 To the UK

    From Greece - S1 To the UK

    This episode features Evangelos from Greece. He moved to the UK to pursue his university education thinking he'd fall in love with the country as he'd always imagined. He ended up facing language barriers, culture-shocks and inability to adapt to the environment.. so much that he was seriously considering quitting university and returning to Greece!

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    All the "background" sounds in this episode were personally recorded in Athens airport and in flights to and from Athens. Music by Kevin MacLeod from incompetech.com

    • 40 min
    From Egypt - S1 To the UK

    From Egypt - S1 To the UK

    This episode features Abdelmoneim from Egypt. He narrates his story of moving from El Mansoura (Egypt) to the UK as an 18-year-old to pursue university education. He shares very insightful stories of the highlights and struggles he faced during his 4 years journey in the UK as an Egyptian.

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    All the "background" sounds in this episode were personally recorded in the streets of Cairo on 16/03/2020. Music by Kevin MacLeod from incompetech.com

    • 40 min
    Trailer - towards cultural awareness

    Trailer - towards cultural awareness

    After 12 episodes of trial and error, the future of the podcast is now clear. In this episode, find me rambling about why I started the podcast and what do I aim to achieve from it.

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    Music from https://filmmusic.io by Kevin MacLeod

    • 7 min
    From Zimbabwe - S1 To the UK

    From Zimbabwe - S1 To the UK

    This episode features Takura - a Zimbabwean national. He was born and raised 18 years in Zimbabwe, an economically unstable country where 34% of the population is currently under extreme poverty. In this episode, Takura shares truly eye-opening stories. From his family having to cross borders to get groceries, to moving to the UK to study and fly planes. Takura reflected on his 5 years in the UK and how they changed him.

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    Music from https://filmmusic.io by Kevin MacLeod

    • 49 min

Customer Reviews

4.9 out of 5
8 Ratings

8 Ratings

Kevin Y of Life Plus Up ,

Fantastic show!

This show is very creative and I love the format. Every episode is a story that you can't miss!

Dithia ,

Like Traveling from Home

I really enjoyed listening to the episode "From Nigeria." I'm intensely curious about how people in other cultures live & the guest in this episode compares things from Nigeria to the UK that you would never guess would be contrasts! Great job!

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