Life at Bellerbys College

Meet Our Student Bloggers!

Thinking about studying in England?  Find out more about the lives of some of our current students here in their blogs.  Each week, they'll share their thoughts and experiences as they progress through their courses.

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Our bloggers are:

Ksenia Rostislavleva from Moscow, Russia
Ksenia is 17 years old and in the first year of an A Level course.  Ksenia previously studied English Language Preparation and GCSE courses at Bellerbys Brighton. 

In her spare time, she enjoys shopping, reading, socialising with her friends and she is a member of the college United Nations Association and Debating Society.

Ksenia is hoping to attend Imperial College, London ("If I'm very lucky!") to study Biochemistry.

Wang Xuxi (Shiny) from Guangdong, China
Shiny is 21 years old and in the final year of an A Level course at Bellerbys Brighton.  He's hoping to study Civil Engineering at Imperial College, London when he leaves us this summer. 

Like Ksenia, Shiny makes the most of life at college and is a member of the Music Club, Poetry Circle, United Nations Association and Table Tennis club.

Sam Hang from Hong Kong
Sam is 18 years old and currently studying Business Foundation at Bellerbys Oxford.  He would like to study Economics at university in September and has a conditional offer of a place at Bath University. 

In his spare time, Sam enjoys reading, watching movies and telling jokes!

Jag Gupta from New Delhi, India
Jag is 16 years old and studying IGCSEs at Manor Campus, Bellerbys Cambridge.  After completing his A Levels at Bellerbys, he hopes to go to study Business at Bath University, followed by a Masters.

Jag is a sociable chap and outside of class enjoys rugby, cricket, basketball, drama, Young Enterprise and playing the drums.

Hello Everyone!!!

Posted by Ksenia

Hello!!

My name is Ksenia and I am from the capital of Russia, from Moscow!

Last August I came to Bellerbys Brighton for an English preparation course.  It was great!  When I came to the UK it was extremely difficult for me even to understand English and I was absolutely terrified to open my mouth and start saying something.  But I quickly made some new friends from different countries and even did not realise that I started talking!  Of course it was summer and most of the time we were having fun, but our teachers were very patient and tried to put a bit of knowledge in our empty heads.

In September I started my GCSE course and met some more fantastic people that I can be proud to call my friends now.  Surprisingly my level of English was enough to study because my teachers always explained everything very carefully and were making lessons interesting, sometimes they were even more enthusiastic that we were!  I am very grateful to all members of staff who helped and supported me during this year.

And now am an AS student (it means that I haven’t failed my GCSE exams!! Hurrah!!), I am studying Biology, Chemistry, Math, Physics and French.  Why French?  Just because I was studying it for 8 years in my Russian school and did not want to forget it.

I really enjoy science subjects, that is what I want to do in future (to be exact my dream is a degree in biochemistry) but I think that my teachers may not be always happy to have me in their class, as I always ask too many questions “Why?” and sometimes quite stupid ones… Sorry for that, it is a part of my nature!

First Footprint

Posted by Shiny

Finally, the January exams have come to an end.  No matter how it is, that’s it, it's all become history. It’s time for “blogging”!

I am pretty honoured to be here to share my life with all the people.  I am Shiny, a simple boy from the South China, who is studying A2 in Bellerbys College at the moment.

People always ask me why I call myself Shiny.  Some people may think that because I am shy.  I agree with them to some extent, but virtually, I use this name since there is a classmate who was born on the same day, same month and the same year as me.  Her name is Sunny.  Don’t you find it magical? The names Sunny and Shiny both have 5 letters and they demonstrate almost the same meaning for two people who came to the same class by destiny.  Cherishing the destiny is crucial to me, that’s why I named the Poetry Circle I set up “Cheristiny”.

More over, Shiny represents my characteristics.  I can’t say I am absolutely optimistic, but the thing is I usually send my best smile to everyone I meet. Smiling is a contagious disease which may spread incredibly fast, therefore, another nickname of me is Smily which you can’t possibly find in a dictionary since it was just miscalled by my friends.

Besides that, the name BB has accompanied me for ages since primary school time.  Therefore, you may call me whichever you like above.  Any name will do.