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Published: March 30th 2008
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Brighton Sunset
I love my new camera. Only now can I take pictures like this one of a beautiful Brighton Sunset! Didn't I just Get Here?
Well everyone, this is my first official travel blog entry. A lot of my entries will be from my home base here in London. I live in Islington, a younger part of of the city that is becoming more and more popular with students and young professionals. Compared to my living situation last time I studied here, I am living like a king. I live in a two bedroom flat with 3 other roommates. My current room is almost 3 times the size of my room with IES in Fall '05. One of my flat mates, Matt, is from the Youngstown area which is nice. Its always nice to have someone to miss Wedgewood Pizza with and the other little things that the Mahoning Valley has to offer. Max, my other flat mate is from Chicago. My roommate it Mike. I'd tell you more about him, but I don't know much. He is never here at all so I live in a glorified single. I really did luck out with my rooming situation. Mike was part of the September intake to Mountbatten (my program), and moved in here a day before us. So the three
99 Bishopsgate
This is 99 Bishopsgate, my office in the heart of London of us drew cards to determine who would get the bigger room (the other room has bunk beds). Max drew a King, Matt a Queen, and I somehow pulled the Ace. I am going to put my mailing address up on facebook so if any of you wish to send mail, it would be greatly appreciated.
While I live in Islinton, I work in the heart of the financial district. I am working for Deutsche Bank as a Stock Trade Desk Support Analyst. Since I started, I have learned how to generate many report for various VP's in the company. Its so different to be treated like an equal in the workplace. While I am an "intern," I have not been treated like one. I have felt valuable. They have put a lot of trust in me, as I return billions of dollars worth of stock every day from stock overborrowed. What I thought would be a 9-5 job has quickly turned into an 8:30-6 job. But I am learning a lot, and there is a fair chance that I can generate some sort of future job with DB out of the experience.
I am also taking classes
Amanda/Me
Amanda and I eating Easter Dinner at a Japonese Steak House Nothing shouts salvation like and Onion Volcano! for my MBA through Mountbatten and American International College. I have had 3 classes so far and I feel a bi babied. Most of the work that is assessed will come through research papers primarily based on personal experience and reflection of the company we are working for and group presentations as well. I am excited to be back in the class room though, as over the past 8 years it has become almost a comfort zone.
In other news, my girlfriend Amanda came to visit during her spring break. She is doing a semester studying abroad in Florence as a means to see the world. I was so excited to see her after not for 2 months. She was here for 2 weeks getting used to people speaking English again. I was extremely busy, but we had a chance to do a lot. We saw 10,000 B.C., and the Other Boleyne Girl. We went to the Borough Market, Tower of London, and went to Westminster Abbey for Easter Mass (Very Cool!). We saw Wicked which I really enjoyed. We also say a straight play called The 31 Steps. It was also really enjoyable. We also went down to
"AAA"
Adam and Andrew, This one is for you guys! Brighton for a night an day and got to see the Royal Pavillion, built my George IV, son of the Crazy dude whose ass we kicked during the Revolutionary War. We also got to see Tim Maugherman, who was the associate director of my IES program. He moved to Brighton and opened an Italian specialty food store. It was great to see him as well.
Amanda leaves in May to go back tot he USA, so we are planning to either go to Paris the end of April, but if it gets too expensive I am flying down to Italy. I invite everyone to e-mail me. I work 8:30-6 during the week and have classes every other weekend and the occasional wednesday. Its going to be hard to keep this updates and stay in touch with everyone. So if you could just pop me an e-mail to let me know how you are doing, that'd be great. I am putting a few pictures up for your enjoyment! If you want to save a link for this, this is it:
http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/acbestic/
Hope you all are well, and can't wait for your visits (i hope)
Cheers,
Aaron
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Wow
Bestic this looks awesome. I'm a bit jealous! Also, embarrassingly, the picture of your office building blew me away. I'm so uncultured that I always viewed london as a bustling village with stone buildings...I had no idea it was a city! I need to get out more.