Big in US
Dóra Csatári
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Nazareth College, Rochester. An opportunity for everyone whose native language is not English. 3 weeks in New York state. Living the American dream.
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Hello, New York!
Hello all! If You ever heard the song by Alicia Keys, I tell You, everything she sings about it’s getting alive once You're in NYC. Marquees on Broadway, big lights, Brooklyn Bridge, concrete jungle… Talking in general about NYC is not easy at all, but I’ll try to...
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Basic infos about getting in the US
Hello all! I was 21 when I faced the opportunity of visiting the USA due to a University Scholarship. New York state’s pretty city, Rochester was my hometown for almost 1 month. Accurately, Campus of Nazareth College, Rochester. The course I applied for was a 3 week...
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Waking up at JFK airport
Hello all! After spending 8 hours (+some more due to the change of time-zones) in the air, we arrived to New York City. The language course in Rochester started one day later, so we had an afternoon and a night to spend in NYC, and planned to travel by train to our...
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More trips, more friends, more fun
Hello all! Further trips, adventures and experiences are left to be described. Unfortunately the photos can’t bring back the atmosphere fully, but I hope You will enjoy watching them. On one day our RAs brought us on a 2 hour journey to Niagara Falls, one of the...
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Rochester: first impressions
Hello all! On our first day (during our short journey with the vans from the Megabus station to the campus) the only thing I noticed about Rochester was that the environment looks simply like any industrial city without a special character. I definitely missed the gleam...
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Welcome to Nazareth College!
Hello all! Pittsford village is half way between Rochester and Campus of Nazareth College. It’s actually a little plaza-village full of stores, shops, companies and services. Clothes, shoes, accessories in one hand, restaurants, cafés, Dunkin Donuts on the other....
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American student-life
Hello all! Finally the time has come to talk about the atmosphere of the summer language programme and our daily schedules. The three week experience started the day after we arrived at the campus. After we woke up in the morning with sleepy faces, but without jetlag...
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Studying at NAZ
Hello all! In the following post I will talk about how studying English actually looks like at NAZ. The system and the construction of the whole 3 week language course kept us busy, but after it ended we all could go home with stronger skills. On the second day at NAZ...
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Trips, friends, fun at NAZ
Hello all! Let’s talk about what people can do around Rochester except studying. Our RAs and teachers and the whole staff were so attentive to fulfill our every single desire and wish, that we all are thankful for their work. They organized us so many leisure...
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From NYC to Rochester
Hello all! I have to apologize, this post was supposed to be 100 % about Rochester, but I guess I left my soul somewhere around New York. I'm feeling like I must show the world, show you what a lovely place I have been to. So here are some more highlights of the city....
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Hallo, Berlin!
Hello all! Our last day of the American 3 week Summer Programme consisted only of traveling. Our journey home started around 3:00 a. m, and we arrived next day evening to Budapest. First, we traveled from Rochester to Manhattan by train. From Manhattan to JFK (New York...
