{"id":9462,"date":"2017-10-08T17:13:02","date_gmt":"2017-10-08T21:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/social.rollins.edu\/wpsites\/letters\/?p=9462"},"modified":"2019-07-10T17:56:37","modified_gmt":"2019-07-10T17:56:37","slug":"theres-no-place-like-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/2017\/10\/08\/theres-no-place-like-london\/","title":{"rendered":"There’s No Place Like London"},"content":{"rendered":"

I can\u2019t believe I\u2019ve been here for over a month already. To say I hit the ground running would be an understatement when referring to my introduction to the UK. I\u2019ve done so much in my time here already I\u2019ve hardly had time to sleep, and honestly I wouldn\u2019t have it any other way. I\u2019ve seen Big Ben and the London Eye, Westminster Abbey and Kensington Palace. I\u2019ve been inside Buckingham Palace and walked through so many gorgeous gardens and parks. I feel like I\u2019ve done so much already, but at the same time, I feel like I haven\u2019t even made a dent in everything there is to do and see here in London.<\/span><\/p>\n

Despite all the running around and sightseeing though, I feel like I\u2019ve gotten into a routine and couldn\u2019t feel more comfortable here. My flat mates and I get along so well and have become fast friends, which is nice because it means we have a comfortable environment to come home to after a long day of classes and interning. <\/span><\/p>\n

Speaking of which, I love my classes here. In my detective fiction class, we took a Sherlock Holmes walking tour around London to see places that Sir Arthur Conon Doyle went and set some of Sherlock\u2019s stories! I\u2019m also taking a Shakespeare class which I love. I\u2019ve even had the opportunity to see King Lear at the Globe already which was incredible, and the actor who played Lear in the play was in Pirates of the Caribbean! As one of my favorite movies, I was pretty excited to discover King Lear was being played by Mr. Gibbs.<\/span><\/p>\n

In addition to seeing Shakespeare\u2019s plays at the Globe, I was also fortunate enough to get to see the RADA\u2019s performance of Hamet starring Tom Hiddleston which was AMAZING and one of the coolest things I\u2019ve ever done. Tom Hiddleston\u2026just saying. ALSO I GOT TO SEE HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD. Although, I wasn\u2019t a big fan of the story when I read the book, watching it on stage was a totally different experience. All the special effects were so seamlessly done, and the acting was so wonderful. I laughed, cried, and fangirled throughout the entirety of the play.<\/span><\/p>\n

While I know Sweeney Todd meant it in a completely different way, I have to say that there is truth to the song that I have been singing relentlessly since I\u2019ve arrived. There really is \u201cNo Place Like London.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I can\u2019t believe I\u2019ve been here for over a month already. To say I hit the ground running would be an understatement when referring to my introduction to the UK. I\u2019ve done so much in my time here already I\u2019ve hardly had time to sleep, and honestly I wouldn\u2019t have it any other way. I\u2019ve…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":213,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-capa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9462","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\/213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9462"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14601,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9462\/revisions\/14601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}