16 Days, Calendars and Traveling Plans!

Merry Christmas! Well, I guess Christmas was 3 days ago, but I hope everyone enjoyed the holiday. Now that I can't blame the holidays for my lack of posts - here I am!
Its getting so close to departure time, now is the period where all your family members at Christmas ask "Arn't you excited?"while I respond in a stuttered "of course!?". The thing is, its coming so quick I can barely comprehend it all! Of course I'm excited, its just hard to wrap my head around the fact that I am leaving in 16 days. 16 days, even typing that feels crazy.

I got my 1 month update from my program a few weeks ago releasing a program calendar, and myEduation (activities/events hosted by my program) calendar. Seeing that made it a bit more real, to see the calendar and realize I was only a few weeks away from staring my classes, or even visiting Stone Hedge.

Here is some of my program dates:

As well as program events, they also mentioned outside travel excursion opportunities. One of the #1 things I'm excited to do is not only travel around London, but around Europe. Currently I have no set plans when and where I'm traveling to, but I am leaving it pretty open. I want to do a few weekend trips and especially travel around during my spring break. I'm hoping I will make friends over there who have their spring break open too and we can travel somewhere together! As for travel after my program ends, I actually booked a flight home the day its over (more so because they highly recommend not flying into the UK without a flight out). But I'm still up in the air (haha, no pun intended!) about canceling my return flight and traveling more after. I'm just hoping it will sort itself out while I'm over there.

A lot to think about, but any down time I get I end up daydreaming about London and the adventure to be had :) xx

One Month to Go!

I'm Getting Exited..!

3 More Months!

P.S. Did anyone notice I dyed my hair? Just went a bit more brunette :)  xx

Tube Practice

This weekend some of my high school friends and I came up to Minneapolis to visit our other friend for her homecoming. Although we tried to get tickets for the football game, of course, we were just a day late and they were all sold out! So while my friend, whom we came to visit, had her ticket we were left to figure out what to do for a few hours. Ultimately we decided to catch the city bus to go to the Mall of America! I have to say, being 3 white girls from a suburban city we had ourselves a little "adventure" trying to figure out which bus to take, which stop to get off at (we messed this one up and ended up having to walk 20 minuets to our ACTUAL stop) all while trying to look like we weren't totally lost. 

Although this was quite a small feat, I actually got kind of excited when I realized I was "practicing" for when I have to use the tube in London. My college councilor (who visits London almost biyearly) assured me that after a few times on the tube, and at least a couple missed stops, I would be a pro. Well, I hope she's right! In all actuality though, I am quite exited to get a tube pass and to be able to be that confident city woman who knows her way around. Getting to experience little things like these, that remind me of my trip, makes me that much more exited to go!

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4 Months to Go

Check, Check - is this thing on?

Hello friends!

As my first post, I can assume I have a commitment to let you know what all this is going to be about!
Well, my name is Bridget and I am a sophomore attending college in Minnesota. I will be studying abroad Spring 2014 semester to London, England and I am very exited to share my adventure with you!

I will be updating my blog with both text and video posts (preferably more videos) on pre-departure, everything leading up to the trip, and obviously my experience over there. Hopefully this will help me stay in touch with friends back home, and maybe even help other students looking to study abroad as well.

Ta ta for now! xx