#1 Why & How

One of the questions that comes up the most when I speak with Scots is “Why are you here in Dumfries?” It’s true that it’s not Glasgow or Edinburgh and it’s much less known, but I’ll explain why.

I come from France, where I studied after the baccalaureate for 2 years. For the third year of study, I had the opportunity to spend a year abroad in Scotland. The partner university of mine is University of the West of Scotland (UWS) and it has several campuses in Scotland including Ayr, Hamilton, Paisley, Dumfries, London. The distribution of students in each of these campuses is done randomly and that’s why I’m now in Dumfries.

One of the (only) things I knew about Dumfries at the time was this is where Calvin Harris was born (oh yes anyway). In short, it was not a lot of information. This is one of the main reasons why I wanted to do my blog about my experience here. I would like to make sure that this blog helps future French students (or not) who will have the opportunity to study in Dumfries. Moreover I think that it is interesting also for the people who already live here, to have the foreigners’ feeling on their city as well as on its operation. Unlike the title says, I am not really an Erasmus student. In fact I do not take part of this organisation. I think it is important to precise it because I will probably talk about the difference between Scottish and French school and without the Erasmus’s company it is a totally different approach.

This blog will be dedicated to all this topic and also about information in relation with everything I learnt from my new life here.

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