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Hi friends!
It's the Summer Solstice today! (If you're in the Northern Hemisphere, that is!)
There are many traditions all over the world that welcome the official start of Summer. For example, in the United Kingdom, people come from all over the world to celebrate this astronomical event at Stonehenge. People have been celebrating at Stonehenge for at least 5000 years!
If you're in the Southern Hemisphere, like in South Africa, Australia, or New Zealand, today you get to celebrate the Winter Solstice!
Read more from National Geographic to discover other traditions and to see a nifty video about what happens to our planet during the Solstice.
What are your culture's solstice traditions or celebrations? Tell us by clicking this link to the Living Abroad Forum.
Updates: Erasmus Green Conference in Brussels - 16 June 2023
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Did you Attend the Green Erasmus Conference in Brussels?
If you were one of the lucky ones to attend, give us a little update about what you discussed, who you met and some of your favorite memories. Why not throw a photo or two into your reply so that we can enjoy the experience more? Just click here to join the conversation.
If you weren't able to attend but want to know what happened, here's a video.
Erasmus Generation Meeting 2023 Update
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ESN just published a great new video about the Erasmus
Generation Meeting that happened in Bucharest, Romania earlier this year! Read here
to jog your memory and then watch the video to see if you're in
it!
What was your favorite experience? Did you make new friends? Tell us about it in our forum discussion here.
Support Corner: Let's help our English Community!
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This part of our announcement is all about helping each other by answering each other's questions in the forums.
Here is a list of topics that you may have missed:
1. Have you taken the B1 Oxford Test? Share your tips with Paula here.
2. What video games do you play? Tell Alberto what games you like to play and why by clicking here.
3. Ruchindra was curious about how to volunteer with the United Nations in Kenya. Click here if you're interested too!
Those are our mid-week announcements! What would you like to share on this magical Solstice day? :D
Iya