I romanticise my life on here so much that it’s important to recognise how *tough* studying abroad can actually be! I hope you find this useful if you’re considering studying abroad!! 💛💛💛 also worth noting that I go to an untraditional uni so our experiences will be v different :)

i feel like it’s sometimes hard to talk about the hardships of living abroad, because people kinda expect us to be very grateful for it, and i understand it because we are experiencing things some people will never experience. and of course we are grateful for it but there are really hard parts in it. when i was 15, i went to study for 5 months in the United States, and i felt like it was so hard to share my hardships with people staying at home because i was supposed to live a wonderful experience, which wasn’t the case because of a lot of issues that happened during my living there. it was a precious moment but also hurtful experience for me but i didn’t wanted to « disappoint them » with saying that it wasn’t « that wonderful » if that makes sense.

I saw a quote that said “home is a feeling, not a place” and i really like that

I was applying to Minerva as it was my dream school but I ended up not finishing my application as I have autism and I don’t deal well with changes. I’m still sad about it but I am now planning my studies and I am positive about my future again!

I love that you show the pros and cons because I feel like we always focus on the amazing parts of what it would be like but thinking about the cons allows us to make a better more informed decision so thanks Jade! 💛

thank you so much for sharing such great content with us, Jade! I really appreciate all the effort u put into your videos so much, take care and ily 🥺

I studied abroad during university, and then moved to three different countries in a short span afterwards and I think you explained this so well. Especially the worldview changes that happen-you can barely adjust that quick let alone explain them to other people.

If you feel like a local after just 4 months, that's very impressive to me. I've been living in Hamburg for 6 years now and I only just have started to feel like a local in those past 2 years or so. And even then, I was already born and raised in Germany. Couldn't imagine ever feeling like a local in a different culture after just a few months. Then again, I'm just a very introverted person and like being at home doing nothing a lot, so maybe that's a part of it.

I relate a lot to feeling like you leave a piece of yourself in all the different places you've lived, and to always yearning for another home. I lived in four different countries in the past 5 years and it's hard. But as much as it is painful, I try to see it as a beautiful privilege, getting to miss a home you've built on the other side of the world. It's even more beautiful getting to return to that home. I recently got to travel back to Ecuador where I lived for 7 months and had to leave abruptly due to the pandemic. After 2 years of being away, it really felt like I had come back home and that made me deeply happy.

I just got back from a year in Seoul this week so this video came at a good time...studying abroad is the best experience of my life thus far and returning is exciting for various reasons but there’s a lot of pain involved too. Creating a new life for yourself just to leave it behind without knowing if or when you will have it again is hard and I’ve had a lump in my throat since being at the airport in Incheon. Though I can now enjoy the familiarity of the UK again I wonder if it’s worth the sacrifice of everything unfamiliar over the past year that made life feel new. Thank you for sharing!

I love @11:00 when you say "music has been so essential to me because it can pull me back into the lives that I've had in each place." I TOTALLY RELATE. I think music has this magical way of linking places, people, and eras of life to certain songs. I had a playlist for every season every year starting in 2015. I've lived in Spain for 2 of those years, and certain songs will always always remind me of that time of my life... walking in the Metro to my next English class I had to teach, or laying in my apartment in the middle of Madrid late at night, going on runs by the river bopping to a tune in my headphones, sitting in my favorite coffeeshop in a specific neighborhood, etc. Certain songs also remind me fo the other countries/cities I've traveled to: Italy, the UK, Paris, Sweden, Belgium, riding on game drives in South Africa, and more places too, including Berlin!! I am a musician myself and have made a lot of success with it with my own KZfaq channel and playing live shows in different countries-- I hope that my own music serves as solace, joy, comfort, or just a simple memory-link, like it does for you

Watching you gain confidence in travelling over the last few years has given me a lot of hope and my own confidence as someone who at one point was too scared to leave the house. I feel like I've been on this (very parasocial) journey with you as I gained the bravery to go to a university outside my hometown and now I am doing a full YEAR abroad in England (coming from Canada)!!! It is so unreal to take a step towards dreams that I never thought were a possibility for me and I want to thank you for being one of my inspirations to do so!

I had always really wanted to go for Erasmus, it has become such an important marker of adulthood in Europe. I wanted to experience it but I didn't really think it would change me all that much, I was already 22 and had lived alone. Boy was I wrong! It completely changed my worldview and sense of self, in a good way. When I have my own kids, encouraging them to travel will be one of my top parenting priorities.

even from a perspective of going to a UK uni i’ve really contemplated the concept of home! being between multiple places can make me feel quite displaced and as if i now don’t have one true home, but i like what you said about having a piece of you in different places & finding comfort in people :)

The yearning for another home even when you’re in a place where you’re comfortable really hits! I just moved back home after 9 years abroad and the culture shock is real. But then again, looking back, I wouldn’t trade it for anything :)

it just feels so good seeing you growing up so much from the girl I used to watch vdos of igsce to the one who are on the final year of university,but all the way through everything you have become so close to my heart ,take care and ilyy

Hi Jade! I find your university journey fascinating because it could not be further from my own. I'm from Buenos Aires and I have just finished my degree at the University of Buenos Aires. Since I have lived here my entire life, I am really excited to watch your vlogs when you move here and see the city through your eyes. I would also feel happy to show you around if that's something you are okay with :) Best of luck!!

It's so funny how different we all are. Studying in Minerva is a dream for you, but for me it's a complete nightmare.

I live abroad and can relate to some of the struggles, it is hard! Though I can't understand feeling local after 4 or even 8 months - that's a slow-travel tourist 😅

Jade!!! You touched on some really relatable and hard topics, and did it so eloquently. You’re amazing 🌈🪩❤️

I could listen to you talk for hours..I hope you get to experience as many cultures as you like and at the same time have a peaceful and relaxing time❤️

Hey, Jade! As someone who did a 6-month Erasmus internship abroad I can confirm that sometimes it can be really tough. In general, I don't regret having lived abroad, but there were so many tough and wonderful moments. It's like s mix. A rollercoaster. :)

This is really good to talk about and promote. There is way way way too much romanticising online, especially TikTok. This is slightly different but I’m backpacking and working and it’s really really hard. Moving countries/cultures, work, hostels and new people every few days, fitting in sight seeing and planning, no routine, decision fatigue. It is so so challenging. It’s still great, it’s just challenging and people never talk about it. They talk about backpacking and being a digital nomad is the best thing you’ll ever do etc but they never set the realistic expectation that it’s so freaking hard. This is the best video you’ve made showing the reality of this type of lifestyle. Thank you

thank you sm for this video! I'm considering going to grad school in the UK as an American and you're the FIRST person I think of as an example of a study-abroad student. Now, I LOVE your content about each place you're in bc you make it look like a dream, but I'm thankful to hear of the realities before I make the decision! it makes me feel better to know I am more informed!

I just adore the balance of these videos, knowledgeable and beautiful, romanticised and real, lighthearted and important. Always grateful I found jades channel ✨🦋

Learning that you go to each place for four months too has really given me more hope for my semester abroad! That’s the length of my program and I thought it seemed slightly short and that maybe I wouldn’t get a lot out of it in that time, but just from the impression I get from your vlogs you seem to have a great time. I never did the maths on how long you stayed in each location before. It was really nice to have a breakdown of what kind of stages I might go through as well! ✨🦋

The way you put feelings into words is incredible! Loved the video💫

Thank you Jade

I'm moving to Germany next semester and I'm so excited yet a bit anxious hehe but watching ur vids, u are full of life and experiences, so that makes me freaking happy

I have been going back and fourth between the Netherlands and Italy. I attend a dutch University, however I am Italian. It's really tough honestly, I feels like I am always living a two separate lives and I cannot find a way to fully enjoy both because I am always thinking about the other one. I totally get the part about losing friends from back, even with those I keep in touch with, it sometimes feels like there is a world between us. Honestly every time I complain about something of living abroad I feel like I am being ungrateful. However, it can be very hard and sometimes a bit alienating. Thank you for this video, I have been following since your highschool days (aka also mine) I feel like I have kinda grown up with you :)

Hello Jade, welcome to Taiwan. Wish you a great time here:)

I'm moving to Nuremberg in a few days for a summer internship and this helped so much! Thank you Jade :)

Thanks from bottom of my heart Jade❤️☺️ i really really appreciate u sweetie 🥰. God bless u

Thank you so much for this Jade. Your videos, experiences, and perspective are so helpful to me trying to see around the corner. I'm starting university in the fall and hope to combine international development with anthropology. I've always wanted to be able to give something back to the world while also travelling and getting a chance appreciate it. But the one thing I've always worried about as someone who has lived rurally, never moved, grown up with the same people- what will it feel like to not be able to put down roots? My family and friendships are so important to me, but I know I'll have to make an effort to keep up with them. My friend group have been trying to avoid admitting that things will have to turn long distance sooner than we'd like. It'll be hard, but COVID gave us so many tools that will make it easier. We did a lot of video calls over the pandemic, and I don't think we plan on stopping any time soon. I've found that I've been both anticipating these changes with excitement and uncertainty. Thank you for sharing the good and the bad. You have no idea how helpful it is.

I think it would have been better if they made you study in 1 city/country for one year.

As someone who moved countries years ago, I understand what it feels like to have more than one place you can call home. In one place I have my friends and my school and in the other there's my family and many childhood memories. Although I know that I will miss some places if I travel, if I had the chance to study abroad I would go without a doubt

I went abroad twice through my college (1 year in Berlin and 2 weeks in Japan) and I want to pursue a career in International Education; marketing and recruiting students for study abroad opportunities! I’m now living and working in South Korea. I ALWAYS encourage people to go abroad, whether for travel, study or work. It was always add to your personal improvement and therefore enriching your life!

Jade, this hit so close to home. Thank you for making this video 💕

When I first went on exchange for a year in high school I thought the exchange organisations' big words and slogans for changing the world and supporting world peace through intercultural communication was way too idealistic and just good marketing image. But after my experience and continuing work in the community I 100% understand and agree with the point. Living abroad is such and amazing but also though experience because it changes your worldview and challenges your values, prejudices and everything you thought you knew. I love talking with people about exchange experiences cause no matter where you go everyone like yourself just has the same realization and appreciation for how cool it is that there are so many beautiful different cultures and amazing people in this world. I'm so fascinated by the world and will 100% want to live abroad again and challenge my worldview more. Loved this video and love you Jade ❤

This is such an important video! I’m on a study abroad programme in my second year of university in Stuttgart, Germany and I have been here since March and leave in July and can relate to everything in this video! ❤️

Hi from Argentina!! 🇦🇷 I'm really happy for your visit to this beautiful country!! I'm going to move to Germany 🇩🇪to study for a year but I hope you fall in love to this culture and make a lot of friends of lovely argentinian people!! 🥰🇦🇷🇦🇷

You illustrated it so well. Specially how hard it is to miss your old friends from home and then when coming back feeling like your worldview has changed so much and they can't totally get it.

Hi Jade, I’m from Taiwan.🇹🇼 Seeing you grow up and feeling like grow up with you is such a present✨All you’re saying in this video feels so genuine, so true. I’m going to study abroad for an year. This video gives me so much confidence. It removes most of my anxieties and fears cuz we’ve already known the possible toughness of studying abroad are like, then we can face it easier I believe. Besides I know you will always be there with us!! Dear Jade, I hope everything goes well with your next plans(also fingers cross for my visa process haha:) Hopefully some day we can meet somewhere in the world!💞 PS. welcome to Taiwan!!!

Omg I just subscribed to your channel yesterday and found out you’re coming to Taipei (where I live) in the coming year! Can’t wait for you to see this beautiful country and meet the lovely people here:)

Thank you for sharing all of this! I have to study abroad for my degree and i’ve been researching for a while now ❤️ Thinking about either going to Canada or the UK

I can feel you.I’ve been in 3 countries and studying. Bangladesh 🇧🇩 italy 🇮🇹 uk 🇬🇧 cultural shock is real man🥲 Nostalgia is the most painful thing for me. Losing friends 😢😢😢😢

I barely ended my Erasmus in Manchester for 6 months and I'm back in France and honestly, I really agree with almost all your points, specially the "home feeling", like it's crazy but such an amazing experience as well!

hey jade!!! love you and your videos... you have shaped my perspective towards life .. thank you so much! love from india..

Hi Jade! I’ve been watching your videos for I few years, so exciting to hear that you’re coming to my country Argentina! Sadly I don’t live in Buenos Aires but I live in Patagonia in a city called Trelew close to the beach. So if you wanna travel let me know!

Being only 22, and living in many different countries in such a short span of time is HARD and confusing (especially when you are young), and kudos to you handling everything in a positive way all the time, while being true and authentic to yourself! If I were you, I'd probably spend lots of time wondering if I'm actually going where I want to be, and if the major I'm studying so much, sacrifing so much is worth it.

I can relate with some of your experiences. I study in Athens but I'm very lucky to have participated in the Erasmus+ program. And of course I loved it. The first time I went to study in Krakow, Poland for a semester. I experienced culture shocks as I found people there to be more cold than Greeks and not very talkative (but I wish I'd met more locals!). Also, I arrived in Krakow 2 weeks before covid hit so I got through the first quarantine without my family which was quite hard. Thank god my girlfriend was also an Erasmus student so we were together the whole time. I met people from many countries and found similarities in our cultures and/or languages. It was a life-changing experience for me. That's why I wanted to do it again so this time I'm in Madrid, Spain for an 6 month internship. This time is of course better as we don't have to quarantine 😅 The people here are very friendly, which makes me feel more like home like you said, and the thing I love most about Madrid is that it's so multicultural. Many people from other Spanish-speaking countries live here but also from Europe or Asia. It is amazing to learn about the world through your friends! And of course the worst part is the moment you have to leave all of your friends 😢 I highly recommend taking part in Erasmus+ if this is a possibility for you. 😊

Jade you're such a ray of sunlight💜

Speaking about the concept of home was very poetic💜

omg how did i just see this now!!! I'm from taipei, taiwan! can't believe the youtuber ive been following for god knows how long will be studying in the city where I am. hopefully we can all see some taipei content and even better, to connect when your here. love all your vids and the love and creativity you put in your vids, jade :)

Hey Jade! Wanted to say thanks for aallll your videos. I've been watching your content since the beginning of year 10, watched your revision videos and vlogs and studies with me's, and I am honestly so grateful for finding your channel. You really helped me to revise hard and in my mocks i always got 8s or 9s which was mental, now I've finished my gcses and waiting for results day. But thanks for also shaping my personality. I was always the sort of quiet reserved guy, and your genuine personality and passion for learning showed me that I should be myself, and I did that, and over the months I started talking to more people and made great friends. Just thank you so much, you've helped more than you can imagine :D 💛

love the great vibes as always :)

Jade! Thanks for sharing xx loved hearing your thoughts, specially since I never moved from my home city Buenos Aires. So excited to see my city through your eyes! Hope you have a lovely time here xx ✨

I'm so glad to also hear these from you, gosh you've been so brave to keep it up, find your ways and even share this experience with us on yt 🥺❤️ you inspire me soooo much! specially as a person who wants to study abroad (just in 1 country hehe but it's still a whole process) I was thinking and it'd be pretty helpful if you shared how you've learned to manage your finances to study like this? (Bc oof that's the psrt that scares me the most) Any tips and tricks to live alone abroad while studying? ❣️✨ I hope you keep on enjoying summer and resting as much as you need, you deserve all the love queen 🌈💫💓 sending you lots of hugs mwaah

Hello! I am Taiwanese! I am surprised by your visit, since it is a small island and Chinese dominant country. Not so many foreign influencers came here to travel. I hope your journey in Taiwan is memorable and pleasant~~~

Great video! It would be really interesting to hear how your worldview has changed after living in all these places! :)

Oh God. This screams Erasmus Mundus Masters life. Moving to a new country/uni each semester. Figuring out visa logistics each time. Life changing but madness to navigate. Too real. Too too real.

Such a gorgeous video!! I love your editing style, you are such an inspiration to me 🥹 I’m currently planning a gap year for 2023 with my best friend + starting a yt channel and its so wonderful to watch your videos and be inspired!! It’s great to see both sides of your travels. Thank you so much Jade 💕 hope people reading this have an amazing day xx

Thank you so much for sharing your experiences with us. Your videos are always so refreshing ❤

Thanks Jade for sharing your life, thoughts and emotions. I will take a similar university path so this helps me to get in touch with my future life and its hardship so sooo much.

Wow, Jade! That was a really great content, thanks for sharing your thoughts and experiences with us! Open-minded mindset is the biggest opportunity to see the many facades of the world from different perspectives ❤️

loved this! would be amazing if you did a vid on tips and tricks for the logistics side of travelling e.g. when to start visas, how much to save up, general things to remember :)) x

Thanks so much for sharing all of this with us Jade 🙏🏻💕💕💕

LOVE LOVE LOVE all your videos! I've even applied to Minerva after watching your acceptance video! I would love to know more about the uni and how it works! (Also where do you get your cloths from because, again, I just LOVE your fashion sense!!) Sending so much love, thank you for creating this channel because I just aspire to be you and everything you say resonates so deeply with me! I really hope I get to meet or just cross paths with you! Sending you lots of love, gratitude and GOOD VIBES!!

my comfort youtuber ❤️

I loved how you explained all of this!! Speaking so much truth!

Hello from Argentina :) I'd highly recommend you to stay in Palermo is really beautiful and you'll be ble to find a loads of things to do and to enjoy bar/ restaurants / pubs!

I think expanding your comfort zone is just so important! Because of COVID I wasn’t really used to be in new places and I can’t exactly say why, but it just scared me a bit and I was very easily overwhelmed. In the last few weeks after my A-Levels I visited some family and had to go to a new city on my own. And wow, I‘m already feeling more confident and less scared and I decided to do an Solo Interrail Trip in August😊 Now I‘m stuck in my room with COVID which is really frustrating because I don’t want to „lose“ this confidence and trust again because I‘m forced to stay in my room for a bit (hopefully only a week) Thanks for this video Jade, I really enjoyed it ✨

This was such a great video, Jade genuinely has the best energy.

I love everything in this video and in particular the end bit !!

Thank you so much for sharing this video ❤ I am so happy you are sharing these, and I relate to several things you said, though maybe not in entirely the same way. I studied abroad one semester in France while I was in college, and then after graduation, spent one year teaching English in Italy, another year teaching English in France, I've been at home for two years working in an elementary school's ELL department, and am about to move to South Korea to teach English there. I absolutely understand having home in different places; it's been a learning curve to understand and value what I have in my current life and situation, when I can miss what I used to have elsewhere. Places, routines, events, people...yeah. Despite how excited I am to move back abroad, as there are parts of myself I discovered before that seem to have grown dormant since moving home (which is not entirely a bad thing, as I've discovered other parts of myself since being home, as well), I am a little scared about finding my new routine, as I've developed a few over the past two years that have given me a lot of comfort and peace. I love what you said about friends from home. I've managed to maintain a couple of strong friendships at home in Missouri, but over the years, especially in the two since I've been home and have reconnected with some close friends, I've noticed that where I used to connect closely before I lived abroad, now there are some gaps. There are some things that logically they might comprehend, but without having experienced it they might not truly understand. And that's been hard. Keeping in touch with other friends who have lived abroad has been crucial in helping curb loneliness during those times. But the way you used the word "mourn" really helps me put it in perspective. I think it's absolutely healthy to recognize the close friendships we've had that, in the course of life (especially in living abroad) have changed or grown distant, and I think allowing ourselves the proper time to mourn that, even if what we have gained in their stead is also beautiful, is crucial to our wellbeing and in recognizing the value of what we had and what we have. ❤

I feel this so much WOW.. Thank you for sharing these downparts too

I only moved to different cities during uni but I relate so much to the home friends part! I think it's normal when you go to uni because you're all moving towards different paths and having different experiences and different views on the world but it's still sad to look back and reminiscing on what the friendships you had or if you are able to keep some, it's inevitable for those dynamics to shift and change. Much love Jade, growing up and our 20s are weird times 💛

Hey jade your channel has been very helpful for me. I’m from Sri Lanka and ryt now we hv a lot of things going on so I hope to leave the country for my studies. Thank you so much for dropping the scholarship link of your university. Good luck with everything jade ❤️🍀

When you come to Buenos Aires you can do a big meetup with all Argentinian subscribers omggg

Hi Jade, thank you for making this video I'm going to be studying abroad in Finland dir my next semester of uni and I'm always torn between feeling increadibly excited and really anxious But your experiences show me, that there is always something positive and someone I can relate to💕

I'm an American student whose going to be studying abroad in London!! Luckily this eliminated the language barrier but I would be interested to learn what other culture shocks to expect. I live in NYC so I'm used to big cities but other than that if anyone has any advice I'd love to hear

Love the video and hope I can bump into you in Taipei one day!! Been following you since the GCSE videos and now I've finished A level and entered university. You've always been a massive inspiration to me. --- by your Taiwanese fan :)

Omg I can relate so much!!! 😬😮‍💨😅 this past year I have studied in 3 different countries. The culture shock wasn't as violent as you in Korea but my goodness it was stressful and i have insomnia now but I taught me how to adapt and it was worth it!

I can’t believe you’re coming to Taipei! It’s where I grew up and I really hope you’d enjoy your stay here. I can proudly say that we Taiwanese are very friendly, and we’ve got lots of vegan restaurants!

"It's gonna be okay even if initially it's scary." Such an important thought!

"you can find parts of yourself in different cultures" oh that got me

Hi Jade! Omg you go to Argentina, that´s great. I am from Uruguay (that is a tiny country next to Argentina). I hope you have a lovely time there! And I hope that you could manage to make a trip (it is 2hs by ferry) to Uruguay, it has beautiful landscapes and very welcoming people if i can say so myself haha:) Hope you have a wonderful day! Beso grande desde Uruguay! Y espero que te guste mucho latinoamerica y que pases un tiempo maravilloso aquí. Saludos, Matilde.

jade i love you and your content unhealthy amounts :)

Thank you so much for this video, Jade! Love your content

I had the chance to study abroad my last 2 years of uni, b/c of fear I didn't go the first time 🙃 The 2nd time around I was ready emotionally (& financially) for it, but then the world went on lockdown and all my plans went put the window I truly regret not going, if I could have the opportunity to do it the 1st time aound I would have

So due to a combo of different things, the biggest being job opportunities being significantly better abroad and dating a German guy lmao I want to move to Germany, there are so many orchestras is germany and I really want to visit Berlin! I lived in Manchester for a while and loved it and the big city vibe I do definitely want to try living abroad even if its only for a little while for the experience and _I want to exploreeee_

I studied abroad in Barcelona and Dublin in college, and I can’t agree with this video enough! Everything is so true! But I’d do it again in a heartbeat!!

I know how it is to have several places to call home. sometimes I catch my line wondering about how tue perfect "home" would look like by taking the best off all places. Which is of course not possible but my line entertains that thought a lot. It also ,ade me more aware if what I Value most in life.

love this💜♾

Just want you to know I always do a little dance behind my computer when I hear your outro💃

I had scenario #3 happen to me when I was on Erasmus and lemme tell you, that kinda hurt hits deep and different

You are such an amazing and an inspiring person! GO GO GO!

Hello Jade I've found fascinating your journey with university. I'm from Argentina, but from Mendoza a province in the west. You are probably gonna be living in Buenos Aires but if you want to visit Mendoza (such a beautiful city and with good wine) I will be very to show you around and help you with anything you might need ❤

Studying abroad can be both a mental and emotional rollercoaster but you just have to learn to go with the flow.

Love your style of editing. Slay ✨