During my time in Norwich, as a Turkish student, one of my biggest hopes was to find a place where I can have good Turkish food and feel like home. I tried a couple of places but none of them felt like home or amazed me. However, a couple of months ago, one of my…
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World Speech Day returns to Norwich
World Speech Day returned to Norwich again this year, with an event organised by UEA’s school of Politics, Philosophy, Language and Communication’s Future Leaders programme. Founded in 2015, it aims to celebrate speeches with a series of live speaking events in over 80 countries worldwide. Live streamed from Epic Studios, the theme for this year…
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Concrete meets… UEA Pirates American Football
The only encounter I’ve had with American Football was two years ago, when I went to film a match at Colney Lane on a freezing day. Since then, I have been following their results and keeping up to date with how they perform as a team. In reality, I still don’t know the rules and…
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‘You play Quidditch… so how do you fly?’
‘I don’t care if you fall off your broom as long as you catch the Snitch first.’ If you are a Harry Potter fan, this sentence can only mean one thing: Quidditch. Although most people relate Quidditch with Harry Potter and don’t quite understand how people play it without ‘flying’, it is actually a sport…
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Concrete meets UEA Basketball
Growing up, two sports touched my soul and helped me figure out the kind of person I wanted to be. The first of which was tennis, which I played for seven years. The other was basketball, which changed my life in only two years. These two sports are still a huge part of my life,…
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Concrete meets… UEA Volleyball!
We have officially entered to a really exciting time of the semester. The time where we start counting down for Derby Day and getting ready for a day of sports, drinks and fun. It is also an important and a hectic time for the BUCS season as well. So talking to sports teams and being…