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I bet you’d thought after months of updating that I had given up on personal blogging. Think again. It took a little bit for me to find blogging inspiration again. Last time I updated on my personal life, life was not going according to plan. In the following weeks everything kind of panned out. I switched study abroad programs, to the Journalism program, which was my original first choice. I got into the program, and currently I’m in London studying.
Really I just wanted to write and update on my life. If you read my other blog, then you’ve already read all about my experiences thus far in London, but I wanted to keep that separate from this one, because this blog is like my baby. I woke up this morning, a gloomy looking Saturday, later than expected. My roommate and I had decided to go to the Matilda box office early to get tickets. We set our alarms for 7 a.m. but it was just too early. We just finished our first week of classes and we are just exhausted. So I turned off my alarm and went back to sleep until 10. I sat up in bed and realized just how happy I am. No, there is nothing especially interesting planned for this day at this point, and we may sit around doing nothing, but I’m so happy.
I’m so happy to be here. Every time I leave my flat and walk to the bus stop, or the tube station, or to the grocery store I find something new that I love about the city. I’m finally getting into the rhythm of life here, and experiencing what life in a city would be like. I won’t lie that there are some things I miss about the states. I miss being right down the hall from my best friends in my sorority house, heck I even miss the house and all of the drama that it can sometimes bring. I miss my car and being able to drive where I need to go as opposed to relying on public transportation to get me where I need to go. I miss the American dollar cause Pounds are expensive! But overall I think I could never go back. I love Chapel Hill, but I’m obsessed with this place, and yes I say that knowing that there aren’t even any One Direction members currently in the country. I’m just trying to absorb everything I can about this situation.
I feel like this experience, even though I’ve only been here for ten days, is making me more independent. I’m figuring out how to do things on my own, and that it is, in fact, okay to do things independently. I explore by myself and I feel like it honestly gives me the chance to take everything in, in a different way than I might have otherwise. I don’t know that I can adequately put into words what this experience is changing in me.
If you are interested in keeping up with my abroad travels then feel free to check out my abroad blog: abroadadventures2015.wordpress.com
xx.