{"id":1400,"date":"2022-11-22T09:10:22","date_gmt":"2022-11-22T08:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"urn:uuid:ea231622-9bea-4052-b146-7126c9be45f8"},"modified":"2022-12-05T10:27:55","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T09:27:55","slug":"london-was-just","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.fhgr.ch\/international\/2022\/11\/22\/london-was-just\/","title":{"rendered":"London was just\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Dear Diary<\/strong><br>I\u2019ve always been trying to trust my gut feeling. London was calling me more than once in my life and combining it with media and music studies seemed to be the most obvious approach. Some hurdles had to be cleared. To organize it by myself, as a freemover, meant an additional hassle next to the normal work load  at uni. And financially it wasn\u2019t lucrative either, as I couldn\u2019t find any foundation to pay for the high British student fees. But somehow it worked out and now you might wonder if the decision was worth it. 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