Women Wearing Trousers are Not to be Trusted!

This morning I got the opportunity to experience the most interesting social event in all of my years as a functioning adult (Oh yes– all two of them.) We took the tube this morning to the Speaker’s Corner in Hyde Park. None of us really knew what to expect...

You Have to Pay for What?!

Briefly before departing for London, I’d heard tell of the legendary “Pay Toilet” and today I got the chance to give one a go (lucky me!) It was fairly cheap at 30 pence and had a plethora of change machines in the immediate vicinity just in case you had to “go” and...

YOLO: You Only London “Once”

I didn’t want to say anything. Our professor told the group that the musical “Once,” based on a movie I’d seen years before, was simply a love story between two people that met at an Irish pub. As we strolled into the theater, and as we were all swept away by the...

“I’m Holding a Blanket and We’re Going to London!”

For days, weeks, months, perhaps even a year, the idea of traveling to London, England was a distant dream for all eight of us. We read books about London. We created a Facebook group to share travel tips. Some of us even brushed up on our favorite bits of English...