Jenny will be in London, England until Dec. 20.

At Northwestern, I know two people who took a gap year. In London, it’s much less of an anomaly. One of my flatmates worked full-time at a grocery store for half a year to save up for spending half a year in India. Many others take at [...]

Jenny will be in London, England until Dec. 20.

I spent the weekend on the bonnie (better known as “rainy”) shores of Scotland, and yes, just like in London it rains a lot. The five day trip was phenomenal and made a little better because I was on my own.
After a series of people falling [...]

Jenny will be in London, England until Dec. 20.

My liver hurts. Fresher’s Week (Queen Mary’s version of New Student Week) just ended and the drinking can finally conclude.
It’s strange being in the dorms because my roommates are almost only first years (freshmen — it’s like Harry Potter!) who are starry-eyed and oozing with enthusiasm [...]

Jenny will be in London, England until Dec. 20.

I asked my friend from Northwestern the other day if I could stay with her in Montpellier while I visited. She’d been at the University there for more than three weeks but when I asked her, she mentioned that she had to ask Rene, who I assumed [...]

Jenny will be in London, England until Dec. 20.

I arrived in London at approximately 8:45 a.m. local time after a brief delay in the Detroit airport. There were individual screens in coach on the plane which were too neat to allow me to sleep through.
On my first night here, I did like the locals [...]

Jenny will be in London, England until Dec. 20.

I have a lot of shit. This became much less of a problem when I moved out of a 4-bedroom, 5-person apartment and into my own one-bedroom early this summer. I had an entire room to clutter with my clothes and accessories and another to fill with [...]

Megan’s abroad in London, England, until Dec. 13.

And so I report to you from the good old United States. I passed by the gigantic “Welcome to the United States of America” sign in the Newark airport a few days ago, and since then I’ve unpacked, recovered from jet lag and become accustomed to American accents [...]

Megan’s abroad in London, England, until Dec. 13.

It’s really hard to find a turkey in London. You wouldn’t think so, and neither did I until I looked around Sainsbury’s, our local grocery store. Turkey’s not a big thing to eat here — as one of my British friends said, nobody eats turkey here except for [...]

Read about Megan’s continuing adventures in merry old London, England.

Read about Megan’s continuing adventures in merry old London, England.

Experiences from overseas after two months abroad.

Megan’s abroad in London, England, until Dec. 13.

I’ve hit the halfway point of my time here in London, but my to-do list couldn’t be longer. The list in my planner includes the usual — laundry, grocery shopping, trip planning — but also includes doing required reading from about four weeks ago. I’m well aware that [...]

Megan’s abroad in London, England, until Dec. 13.

Before I begin, an apology: Lots of my posts have been about (and will continue to be about) places other than London. See, the moment I got here I knew I wanted to travel everywhere. England is amazing, yes, but if I just stayed on the island, what [...]

Megan’s abroad in London, England, until Dec. 13.

When Northwestern’s study abroad staff e-mailed the list of students studying abroad, I was shocked. I figured I’d be the only person from my school headed to Goldsmiths, but I was very wrong. Instead, I saw 12 other Northwestern students listed as heading to my school. Though I [...]

Megan’s abroad in London, England, until Dec. 13.

Hamish the Hairy Coo is a cow. That’s it. He’s a cow (the word coo means cow in Gaelic, the original Scottish language), and I spent a solid 15 minutes taking pictures of him this weekend. I loved every minute of that photo shoot.
That experience pretty much personifies [...]