Hey guys! Hope you all had a marvelous weekend and a not so terrible Monday. I sure did, and it’s because…

The sun came out! Continue reading →

First week of school: check! Despite some scheduling drama, I’d say it went pretty smoothly. I also learned a lot, not necessarily in class, but definitely about education in the U.K. Continue reading →

The second installment of my bi-weekly column is here! It’s about a topic I’ve touched on in this blog: communicating with English-speaking people in an English-speaking country. In fact, I like this topic so much, that I am creating a new page on the blog where I can update the “New Words for Things” list separately from a post. Click the link to check out the column at the Daily Trojan website.

http://dailytrojan.com/2014/01/30/language-barriers-cause-culture-shock/

And now the moment you’ve all been waiting for — or maybe just me — sightseeing! On Saturday, I saw all the big ones, literally. Big Ben and the London Eye are obviously major , and I didn’t realize how close they are to each other. A landmark photo shoot ensued, and the results are below. Continue reading →

So I realize it has been a few days since I last blogged, but I would like to take this moment to point out that I never made any promises regarding the frequency of posts. But the real reason I haven’t written for a few days was that I was just waiting for fun stuff to happen so I could talk about it…which it did! Continue reading →

Hey Americans! I am officially now a continent away from you! I am writing this from my bed in my new flat in London, aka Crawford House (still not sure why so many buildings have names ending in house). There are two rooms with three people each, two bathrooms and a stocked kitchen, all strangely crammed onto three ridiculously small floors. It’s nice and cozy, but I definitely can’t say the same for the weather outside. No rain yet, but it’s only been two days so maybe London is trying to ween me into this weather situation slowly.

Not too many interesting things have happened thus far, but I’ll give a little play-by-play anyway because I know my mom will read this and want to know all this stuff. Hi Mom! Continue reading →

Well it happened. I left the big LV and am now seated semi comfortably on my Air New Zealand flight to Heathrow airport. But let me tell you, this was not an easy journey. It began with a quick flight from Vegas to LA. And that’s when the suck kicked into high gear.

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