London Culture I should have realized or seen this so long ago. I have have been here a bit over two months and I just got the "AHA"Experience. I was working for the Postgraduate Open-house night at City University tonight for the Student Ambassador program. First of all the Student Ambassadors are equilivent to Student Council back in the states. We do odd jobs that need to be done around the school and represent the school in the process. It's pretty cool. At any rate I was a Marshal to make sure people didn't lost and answer any questions they may [View Full Entry]

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After the amazing Warwick castle we continued on our journey to Oxford, home to my future school. Acradia has a program there junior year but I hear its very difficult to get into. I"ll still try for it along with maybe going to grad school there (if I can get in) This was the typical college town. Lots of little stores and everything. All the people there were my age. Not like London where everyone is in their late 20s and early 30s and they are all in amazing jobs already. haha We bought our Oxford gear (i got a hat [View Full Entry]

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Last night while chilling at the BnB where I got free internet (which is always a welcome as apposed to the 10 pounds an hour at most hotels) Mom flipped open the England Guide book leant to me from Cleo. It is the best book ever (it's published by lonely planet) She was like Warwick is only like 9 miles from here and there is a really old cool castle there. Lets go there tomorrow on our way to Oxford. I love lastminute trips like that. It was super easy to get to...like anything else we get to the town with [View Full Entry]

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I was pretty excited that I didn't have english again this friday. not because I hate my english class, but becuase it meant I had the whole day to travel with my parents on their last weekend here. We left for Stratford-upon-avon. It didn't take very long to get there. It was such an adorable little town. It was where Shakespeare was born and died and was burried along with his wife and mother. You could walk down all the windy old streets that shakespeare did hundreds of years ago. This was the place where he was inspired to write everything [View Full Entry]

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We went to cheddar gorge. I guess they used to age the cheese in the caves or something like that. I don't remember excatly. And they found a skeleton that they called "Cheddar Man" It wasn't exactly what I thought it was going to be. We went on a hike thing which was cool because I was in the country for some fresh air. We didn't get to finish the entire hike because we were running out of time and we didn't want to have to try driving back to london tooo late. [View Full Entry]

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Bristol was cool. It wasn't filled with amazing things to do. Tonight is the S. Africa vs. England game. I wanted to go watch it in a pub, it was too bad I wasn't at home iwth my friends to watch it. But it was a disheartening game anywyas :( Poor england. We chilled here and saw some churches that were gutted from WWII yet. [View Full Entry]

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I met mom and dad at the Heathrow Airport. We rented a car which was stickshift which made things terrifying driving...from the back seat haha i was really upset though becuase I really wanted to drive. We went through to see stonehenge which wasn't as impressive as I thought it woul be. It just wasn't as big as it seemed like it should be. I saw Lauren M there from Palace Court. She was there with her mom. It was kinda of weird and awesome seeing someone I live with at Stonehenge. I guess my mom's right I find someone I [View Full Entry]

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When we boarded the bus at palace court we were expecting a three hour ride to 'wus-ter-sher' worcestershire for the weekend. At ont point we were driving through wales becuase our bus driver got lost. We arrived at almost midnight and we roamed around with flashlights lookin for cows until the rest of the FYSAE kids got her. The place was a typical camp kind of place. Although all the pictures showed little kids so I was hoping the rock climbing wall was at least taller than me ha ha THe first day fter a hearty breakfast they split us into [View Full Entry]

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Rose and I went to Cardiff this morning. The day startd of at 7am. We mae our way to Victoria Station just before sunrise. Our busride took almost four hours beause the M4 was shut down. We arrived almost exactly at noon we went to see the castle there in cardiff. It was the first castle I had seen...besides arcadia's haha We pretty much just roamed around the city which was pretty small and went into the market and just chilled. It wasn't a gotta go here, gotta see this kind of thing. Everything was so inexpensive there too. I spent [View Full Entry]

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I signed up through Arcadia to go on the daytrip to Brighton. It was only 5 pounds. We got there around noon and got some fish and chips. I just had a bite of Marks. Not a fan of fish but i am a fan of anything deep fried. We pretty much just walked around. Nothing really exciting happened. I ate alot...two crepes which were amazing and italian ice cream.. [View Full Entry]

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