March 2011
12 posts
Belgium
Once Chris and Kat left, I started sleeping a little more and relaxing. I felt like I hadn’t seen my friends in a while so I spent a lot of time during the week catching up with them which was nice! On Wednesday we had a field trip to the Imperial War museum and it was really cool. It was much bigger than we thought and there were a ton of different galleries that we spent the afternoon...
Kat & Chris Visit
On Sunday morning I went to meet Kat & Chris at the airport when their flight got in. They were pretty tired, but decided not to nap in the afternoon so that their sleep schedule could get as normal as possible ASAP. After checking into the hotel and relaxing for a little while, we decided that we would go sight-seeing for a little while. We went down to Piccadilly Circus and walked to...
Roma & Firenze
Bob & Margie arrived in London on Saturday afternoon and after problems with hotels and getting in contact, I was finally able to find them (and randomly appeared in their hotel room). We decided that we would go see Jersey Boys that night, and headed to the theater district to wander around and have dinner. We ate at a pub right across from the theater and it had great food—probably...
"Scotland..what a country"
This week has been insane—which is why I’m just now getting around to update my blog. We had midterms this week and I actually had a lot of work and two midterms to study for; I went to the library here for the first time and it was a really weird experience! Luckily I didn’t have any field trips this week, so I got to spend Wednesday (after one midterm) studying for my next. Overall, I think...
February 2011
10 posts
Barcelona
Last Thursday I left for Barcelona around noon and was prepared to travel alone all day. I gave myself a ridiculous amount of extra time at the bus station and airport to ensure that I would make my various forms of transportation. My bus was set to leave the station at 2:15pm, so at 12:30, I caught the tube and began my journey. I was sitting at the gate at 1 and sat around while buses came...
And another week has passed..
This week has flown by already. I can’t believe that it’s Thursday morning and I still haven’t updated my blog. Last weekend was pretty relaxing and I had a lot of time to catch up on sleep (for some reason I’ve been really tired recently—no matter how much I sleep!). All week I thought that I would have a lot of free time, but I have been so busy with field trips,...
“As you may have heard, bed bugs were recently discovered in seven of the...”
– Richmond University
Paris
Last week was pretty basic—for the first time I had some homework to do, so I actually began to feel like I was in school and not just on a long vacation. It was a weird feeling, but quickly went away once Wednesday came. We had another History of London field trip and went to the Museum of London Docklands. It’s basically just a huge museum with all of London’s history as a...
Just a casual weekend trip to Amsterdam.
I know that I say this in every blog I write, but I still can’t comprehend my life right now. It’s still so crazy to me that I am living in London and will continue to be here for the next three months, traveling over several weekends. While we were getting ready to go to Amsterdam, we just kept saying “oh yeah, we’re just taking a casual weekend trip to Amsterdam, no big...
January 2011
8 posts
Field Trips
I haven’t had too many eventful things happen since I last updated—but have promised people that I would update more often than I have been. Our sleep-deprivation isn’t getting any better because even when we stay in for the night, we stay up watching movies and hanging out until the middle of the night anyway. On Sunday night my friend insisted that we watch “Sorority...
Settling In
The last week has been really busy, but it’s still so hard for me to believe that we have almost been here for two weeks already. We started classes last Monday and it finally began to hit me that I’m not just on vacation and will actually be here for the next three months. I started getting pretty homesick early in the week, and it didn’t help that I got sick again and rarely...
Slowing Down
I honestly can’t believe how fast time is going right now. I feel like I’ve known everyone here forever, but can’t believe it’s almost been a week since I left home. Today is the first time that we’ve had a ton of downtime and I spent the day getting myself organized and catching up on sleep. I was planning to go on a tour of Chelsea Stadium this morning, but my...
A Sandwich?
Sorry I haven’t updated this in a few days—I’ve been pretty busy since I got here. Matt kindly told me that I’m terrible at this, so I promised him that I would update it today :).
I got to London safely on Tuesday afternoon after being delayed a little bit because we couldn’t land. Everything went well until I realized that I accidentally left my north face...
And so it begins.
I finally leave for London tomorrow; I have been anticipating going abroad since Kat went to Ireland during her junior year (in 2007) and it feels so surreal. I am almost completely ready to go—with two checked bags (shockingly) under 50 pounds each and a massive backpack as my carry-on. Despite the fact that I can’t sleep at the moment, I have been strangely calm & relaxed...
