Christina Paraskeva

Subversion in Sequins – The Pantomime Dame

In Cyprus, Christmas smells like slow-roasted lamb and egg-lemon soup, so when I first moved to Britain and heard that the equivalent to our βασιλόπιττα, the essential ingredient for a complete Greek Christmas, was watching a man in a wig yelling while “He’s behind you!”, I was intrigued. What could...
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Posted Nov. 19, 2025

Studying abroad: The one-way ticket

No one is ever truly ready to study abroad; you just have to be brave enough to try. The night before I moved 3,436 kilometres away from home, I sat on my bedroom floor surrounded by four packed bags that somehow carried eighteen years of my life. My mind was...
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Posted Nov. 7, 2025