{"id":11594,"date":"2018-10-08T13:51:40","date_gmt":"2018-10-08T17:51:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/social.rollins.edu\/wpsites\/letters\/?p=11594"},"modified":"2019-07-09T15:20:02","modified_gmt":"2019-07-09T15:20:02","slug":"1-month-update-in-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/2018\/10\/08\/1-month-update-in-london\/","title":{"rendered":"1 month update in London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It only took a month for me to adjust to the fast-paced life that is distinct to London. Even the streets of New York City don&#8217;t compare to the quickness of getting to and from and there is a general understanding of everyone who arrives in London that to not &#8220;embrace the pace&#8221; means receiving quite a passive aggressive attitude from the locals. Something that I learned about London was the melting pot of cultures that is found at any street corner. This celebration of diversity and accepting of a variety of cultures in one area is heart-warming for the fact that Londoners don&#8217;t want others who come from different cultures to conform to the British way; they respect and do not try to make these culturally different people feel like the minorities.<\/p>\n<p>I feel like my personality has shifted from once feeling like &#8216;a big fish in a little pond&#8217; back home and feeling quite small in the big city of London. I&#8217;ve humbled myself by seeing crowds of people rush to important meetings or catch another international business flight. Now an expert in taking the tube, I can easily say London has the best public transportation system because trains come almost every 3 minutes with the longest I&#8217;ve waited, which was 8 minutes due to maintenance.\u00a0 However something I disliked about the tube is that it is always violently silent and crammed with people, however no one vocally complains about the lack of personal space they&#8217;ve got.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_7993-300x225.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-13708 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_7993-300x225-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_8207-300x225.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-13709 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_8207-300x225-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Throughout the first month and now into my second month, I have been scoping out areas for study and leisure that doesn&#8217;t require me to pay for a hot chocolate every time (most areas are cafes). So far, I enjoy reading at Trafalgar Square, The National Gallery which is home to Van Gogh&#8217;s and Monet&#8217;s paintings, Green Park is where I go to get away from the hectic city life, and Waterstone&#8217;s (which is a version of Barnes and Nobles back home).<\/p>\n<p>Something else to note about London is the feeling of opportunity, it&#8217;s hard to find someone ill dressed here in London, so you never know who is a major entrepreneur millionaire and who is the director of a University to spark up a conversation with. At my internship, I didn&#8217;t realize my desk was right next to the director of where I am interning<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_7979-e1539029314806-225x300.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-13710 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_7979-e1539029314806-225x300-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_7989-300x225.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-13711 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_7989-300x225-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It only took a month for me to adjust to the fast-paced life that is distinct to London. Even the streets of New York City don&#8217;t compare to the quickness of getting to and from and there is a general understanding of everyone who arrives in London that to not &#8220;embrace the pace&#8221; means receiving&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":321,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-capa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/321"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11594"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13712,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11594\/revisions\/13712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}