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  I was able to travel to Florence, Italy at the end of 2020 to start my year abroad and complete my marketing internship largely unaffected by the pandemic. The rest of my year aboard is up in the air. Since the discovery of the UK variant of the coronavirus, the Spanish government aren’t allowing non-residents into the country. The date at which this is scheduled to end has changed three times already so I’m kept on standby waiting to learn if and when I can travel. I feel like I will be expected to pick up my suitcase and go as soon as travel restrictions are eased. But as my fear of the virus varies and having already lost over a hundred pounds on a non-refundable flight , I’m in no rush. Fortunately, I can start my marketing internship remotely. I’m not exactly sure how I ended up doing marketing internships for both my placements. I just looked for language schools that offered internships and language lessons as remuneration and hoped for the best. Its worked for me thu...

'I think we feel a lot of pressure that we have to produce some kind of evidence as to why you feel marginalised, or some sort of statistical data. But if you feel some type of way, it's truth on its own. Your feeling our its own truth.' – Saredo The second book from the #MerkyBooks  imprint within William Heinemann, a part of Penguin Random House UK,  written by University of Cambridge graduates Chelsea Kwakye and Ore Ogunbiyi is a well written manifesto about the struggle of black women in the education system. The book manages to include varied aspects of racial torment that the two authors, their fourteen interviewees and many like them have experienced, in a relatively short book. It integrates quotes from their interviewees seamlessly and uses them as a springboard for conversation. It has many quotable moments from the start with information that is shocking to read such as the blatant racism from within the University of Cambridge and the struggle to ...