{"id":47242,"date":"2021-12-19T13:59:02","date_gmt":"2021-12-19T13:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/?p=47242"},"modified":"2021-12-20T11:08:21","modified_gmt":"2021-12-20T11:08:21","slug":"international-students-vs-uk-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/international-students-vs-uk-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"International Students vs UK culture"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Going to University is difficult on its own, doing it in a different country, with a language barrier and different customs is way harder.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not only are you moving away from your comfort zone and moving away from your family, friends and everything that you knew, but you also have to get accustomed to a completely different country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We asked some of the international students at the University of Westminster what was the hardest thing to get used to when moving to England.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"International Students VS UK culture\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5aq0p9pwlU8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Are you an international student? Let us know what YOU found to be the weirdest thing about UK culture at #weirdukthings on Twitter!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More from us:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thevoiceoflondon.co.uk\/christmas-fun-on-a-budget\/\">Christmas fun \u2013 on a budget!<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thevoiceoflondon.co.uk\/best-christmas-markets-around-london-you-must-go-to\/\">Best Christmas markets around London you must go to!<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thevoiceoflondon.co.uk\/top-5-new-christmas-movies-on-netflix-to-enjoy-with-your-family-this-christmas\/\">Top 5 new Christmas movies on Netflix to enjoy with your family this Christmas<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Words\/Video: Susanna Borio &#8211; Subedit: Martyna Rozenbajgier<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Going to University is difficult on its own, doing it in a different country, with a language barrier and different customs is way harder. Not only are you moving away from your comfort zone and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":476,"featured_media":47364,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,118,136,139],"tags":[1645,3184,7194,3769,5958,6538,7193,6597,6604],"class_list":["post-47242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-students","category-university","category-video","tag-culture","tag-international","tag-international-students","tag-london","tag-students","tag-uk","tag-uk-culture","tag-university","tag-university-students"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/476"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47242"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47717,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47242\/revisions\/47717"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}