New Year traditions from around the world
New Year’s Eve is celebrated across the world on the 31st December. It is seen as a time for leaving the past year behind and welcoming the beginnings that the...
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5 festive treats to try with friends
Winter is a season of decadent dishes laced with the rich flavours of cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, cranberry and orange. So if you’re studying abroad in the UK or US, make...
Out & About: Winter in Newcastle
In case you haven’t guessed from our recent posting history, at INTO we’re really loving winter. And one student from INTO Newcastle University feels the same. Lidia Shabaeva, from Russia,...
Global Culture: 5 favourite Christmas traditions
The Christmas mania continues! If you’re an international student, you’ve probably been discovering some weird and wonderful customs (like singing snowmen, red-nosed reindeers and jolly men in red suits). We talk...
Taste Test: 6 classic British dishes
British cuisine is a strange and mysterious thing to many international students. Why do Brits eat Yorkshire “pudding” as part of a main course? What’s a “banger”? And is there...
Best recipes for Bonfire Night in the UK
“Remember, remember, the 5th of November…” Why? Because the 5th of November is Bonfire Night in the UK. Otherwise known as Guy Fawkes Night, it’s an eardrum-splitting British celebration that’s...
Halloween special: 10 scary movies that you shouldn’t watch alone
Are you sitting comfortably? Good. Do you have popcorn? Excellent. Have you switched the lights off? Perfect… In celebration of Halloween, the INTO Team have picked 10 of their favourite spooky, chilling,...
How to haggle in China…with confidence
We’re chuffed that INTO China has made it into the top 10 of Abroad101’s best short-term programmes – and better still, it was voted for by students! The award, from...
10 Questions, 1 Student: INTO China part 2
Today we reach the concluding part of 10 Questions, 1 Student. We hope you’ve enjoyed reading it as much as we’ve enjoyed putting it together! To round off the series...
Enter, the Dragon
According to the traditional Chinese zodiac calendar, with the dawn of the Chinese New Year on Monday we have now entered the year of the Dragon. Dragons are the only...
