Ok, so I was never in Kansas on this trip. However, I have been in some very different places before coming to London. Our travel study trip has consisted of so much more, for me, than simply London. Before our travel study began, I had some of my own Euro adventures....
One of the tricks of traveling is learning how to adapt to your destination. Even though London appears to be very similar to the American culture, there are some major differences separating the two countries. If you misunderstand some of these concepts, you could...
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...
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...
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...
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...
