What can I say, I set out for the biggest three month adventure\nof my life, and I got two months of living in London and a month of sitting in\nfront of a computer screen and paranoia every time I hear someone cough. But at\nthe end of the day, I wouldn\u2019t change anything about my experience. While\ntravelling to London, there were a million thoughts all cluttering my head: What\nwill my roommates be like? How am I supposed to survive 40-degree weather as a Floridian?\nWill I like my internship placement? What will classes be like in London? So\nmany unknowns that I had no way of predicting what the outcomes would be. But\nthen again, if I knew everything, it wouldn\u2019t be an adventure would it? <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Once I arrived in London, I felt\nlike my path unfolded before my eyes, and all I had to do was follow it. I won\u2019t\nlie, it felt like a very slow start to the semester. After the first week, I\nthought to myself: \u201cWow I really have to do that 14 more times.\u201d But I found\nthat this wouldn\u2019t be the case for long; After getting acclimated to my new\nhome I started to realize that each week felt shorter and shorter. And as each\nweek flew by, I began to learn more and more about London and more about myself.\nI found that London\u2019s unique culture felt less foreign to me, and adjusting was\nslowly but surely getting easier. One thing that helped me adjust living the\nlife of a Londoner was all of the opportunities that CAPA provided to the\nstudents: from excursions around England to free West End tickets, there were\nso many opportunities that CAPA gave us which allowed us to learn about our\nstudy abroad site and get to know other students in the program. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
My expectations for this program\nwere far surpassed, and I can say without a doubt that I will hold each and\nevery day I spent in London with me for the rest of my life. Even though my\ntime was cut short, I was still able to live in a foreign country for two\nmonths, and it taught me to never take anything for granted. This was truly a\nonce-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and I urge anyone else that goes abroad to live\neach and every day to the fullest, because you never know when you\u2019ll get\nanother chance to live in a foreign country again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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