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Thu, 22 Dec 2011 21:12:47 -0500

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Tue, 20 Dec 2011 19:47:11 -0500

I’m leaving in 5 hours. We’re all sitting here packing and cleaning and don’t feel...

Fri, 09 Dec 2011 19:53:16 -0500

I’m leaving in 5 hours. We’re all sitting here packing and cleaning and don’t feel a thing. Its like we’re packing for a trip to Dublin or something.

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Fri, 09 Dec 2011 19:51:01 -0500

¡Viva la España!: London's Calling; big/little bonding

Fri, 09 Dec 2011 19:50:54 -0500

¡Viva la España!: London's Calling; big/little bonding:

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This past weekend I spent freezing my butt off, riding the tube, and laughing a whole lot. It was a great weekend spent with my big. She showed me all around london from the christmas markets, food markets, big ben, the london eye, shopping, and pub crawls. Friday I arrived around 4 and she showed…

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Thu, 08 Dec 2011 17:10:40 -0500

I miss all of you but I never want to leave this place. EVER. Reality has kicked in. I feel like this was all a dream. I have met the most interesting people here and done the weirdest things you can imagine. I will come back with so many stories and experiences, and some that you won’t understand because you weren’t here to experience them with me. But that’s okay, I will do my best to explain everything the best that I can. In reality, it is the people that you share these experiences with that will make the memories. If I were to come back here (which I will), it will be so weird to be here without the people from my program. Bleh time to enjoy my last real night.

XoXo

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you..."

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 12:39:00 -0500

““Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.””

- Mark Twain

Christmas in Trafalgar Square

Tue, 06 Dec 2011 17:09:36 -0500

Christmas in Trafalgar Square

Little in London

Tue, 06 Dec 2011 17:07:05 -0500

Little came to visit this past weekend! We did all of the touristy things, shopped in Oxford Circus, and went on a Pub Crawl. It was cool to show her around my neighborhood and tell her everything about London! We found a really cool building by the Eye that had bowling, a bar, an arcade, and a McDonald’s.

This is the only picture we have of both of us for some reason…

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Fri, 02 Dec 2011 08:06:15 -0500

London Adventures

Fri, 02 Dec 2011 07:59:50 -0500

CAPA gave us free tickets to go see a pantomime, which is an interactive, funny play known to happen near the holidays. We saw Cinderella at Hackney Empire Theatre. It was pretty funny.

Last night, CAPA rented out the famous Three Kings Pub for our farewell dinner. It’s basically a sports bar. They gave us food in a buffet style, and if you were there it would have looked like we haven’t eaten in days. Every time they brought a tray out it was gone in .7 seconds, no lie. We had chicken fingers, nachos, jalapeno poppers, tandoori chicken skewers, hummus platters, and finger sandwiches. They also played a slideshow with all of our pictures that we sent in, and our program staff said a few words. It was kind of sad knowing I’m leaving so soon :(

I also won the CAPA Letter of Achievement, which is a letter of recommendation and a certificate that I can use for grad school. I was 1 of 7 out of 200 that got it and they announced my name last night!

Okay I’m waiting for Little to come now, updates later!

Chelsea Football Stadium Tour

Mon, 28 Nov 2011 15:16:15 -0500

Chelsea Football Stadium Tour

Stamford Bridge

Mon, 28 Nov 2011 15:11:41 -0500

Okay so maybe Let Me Play isn’t that bad. I got into work today and was asked to meet a group of Australian kids at Stamford Bridge, which is Chelsea Football Club’s stadium. I went with them on a private tour! We saw the home and away locker rooms, ran through the tunnel that the teams use to enter the field, and saw the press room. The actual stadium was so cool, but so weird cause it was empty. We then got free entrance to the museum. It was cool to see the history of the team and stadium. This is one of the coolest things that I got to do in London, and totally unexpected!

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Sun, 27 Nov 2011 19:14:26 -0500

My fantastic Photography :)

Sun, 27 Nov 2011 19:07:06 -0500

My fantastic Photography :)

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Sun, 27 Nov 2011 18:58:34 -0500

Covent Garden

Sun, 27 Nov 2011 18:51:06 -0500

Covent Garden

Hyde Park

Sun, 27 Nov 2011 18:48:07 -0500

Hyde Park

Dad's Visit

Sun, 27 Nov 2011 18:45:52 -0500

My Dad came to visit me for 5 days! It was so fun! We saw basically all of the sights in London, plus more. I took him to the changing of the guards at Buckingham, rode the London Eye, went to the ice bar, went on a ghost bus tour, and saw the British Museum. We spent most nights at Hyde Park Winter Wonderland, which is basically a huge Christmas Market and carnival in one. They have a craft area, a ton of food, a beer garden, a carousel bar, and a lot of different rides. We also went to a couple pubs, and of course drank cider!!

Carousel Bar

Covent Garden

I also took him to Let Me Play so he could meet everyone there, and then showed him Westfield.

Ice Bar

We also went on a cruise up the Thames to Greenwich to see the Prime Meridian!

TWO TIME ZONES!!!!