My last two weeks in London we’re amazing, sad, stressful, nostalgic, and full of excitement. As I began to realize I would be leaving London soon, my initial reaction was happy anticipation. As much as I had grown to love London and Queen Mary, I was excited to finally be home where the weather was…
Category: UK: Queen Mary Univ
Nov. 17-Dec. 1
The second half of November, just like the rest of my time spent here in London, flew by. My classes at Queen Mary began to get a little more serious as the first deadlines began to approach, but the coursework continued to be enjoyable. Socially, these past two weeks I’ve really gotten to know the…
Blog 7
Its hard to imagine that I will be back home in approximately ten days. I blinked and now the semester is basically over; the feeling encompasses the term “bitter-sweet”. Since I last blogged, I took my final trip to Edinburgh, Scotland! At first I initially had doubts as to how I would like it and…
Is it really almost over??
Well, this semester is slowly coming to a close… As of yesterday, I go home in only two weeks. This only recently hit me, along with the fact that there are a bunch of things that I haven’t done yet that I want to do before I leave, like seeing the Changing of the Guard…
Blog 6
These past two weeks have been incredible. They certainly revived my energy and spirit about being abroad. I absolutely loved traveling to Rome and Barcelona. For Rome, I went on a tour with Weekend Student Adventure. This was an awesome decision. I had a great guide and the people on my tour were amazing! If…
Truly becoming a global citizen
The rest of our tour of Italy was absolutely incredible, minus the mishap of almost getting off the train at the wrong station. Verona was beautiful, with cobblestone streets in one area and high-end shops in another. Sadly, you cannot write letters and stick them on the wall of Juliet’s house anymore like in the…
November, the election, and home
By far, the biggest event of these two weeks was the US presidential election. As a Hillary supporter the election results utterly shocked me and hovered over me like a cloud for many days after November 8th. However, I didn’t let my disappointment ruin the week after the election and the week before I gave…
October Flew By!
This is yet another late blog post, which just goes to show how busy and captivating life can be in London. The last two weeks of October I’ve become much more familiar with London as a city and Queen Mary as a school. With regards to London, I feel that no matter how much time…
Beginning our tour of Italy!
The past two weeks have been more academic than entertaining for me. I had one of my first assignments due last week, which is weird since we are practically halfway through the term at this point. Coming into the program, the professors who gave speeches during orientation told us that the workload might be difficult…