Hello Everyone!
I figured I'd go ahead and give you a heads up that I'm going to Wales this weekend! It's another one of the USC trips so I don't have to pay! Yah! Anyway, I'm terribly sorry that I haven't gotten caught up on posting yet. Posts always take me a long time, a majority of that time is invested in editing and uploading pictures. Posts that are picture heavy (like Sweden and Morocco) are always time consuming. In contrast, my Stratford-Upon-Avon post should be relatively short. I've already written most of the Sweden post so I promise it won't be too long after I get back before I post it.
In other news, I had a lab report due today. It was my first major assignment that I've had due this semester (I know I've already been here two months. I think it's crazy too) and ended up taking considerably more time than I had expected. So for a change I've actually been busy with course work. I think it turned out quite well though and I'm rather proud of it. I also have a paper due next week so there's still a lot to come for me! Since the British system doesn't assign nearly as many assignments as the American system, it's quite easy to let all these assignments pile up. So far I've been managing alright though. Suffering through aerospace engineering at USC has certainly taught me a thing or two about buckling down and getting work done when I need to. Study hard, play hard!
Anywho, more to come after the weekend. So sorry for the lack of posting!
Stephanie
Friday, March 9, 2012
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Kony 2012
Please take the time to watch this video...it's a bit long, but very powerful.
KONY 2012 from INVISIBLE CHILDREN on Vimeo.
KONY 2012 from INVISIBLE CHILDREN on Vimeo.
Oxford Fun
Hello All!
So - first let me say, I'm back from Morocco!! Morocco was SO amazing, wonderful, exciting, different, beautiful, exhilarating, relaxing, strange, and awesome and totally warrants a really long post detailing everything I did, saw, and experienced while there. I intend to write this post soon! But - first, let me catch up on some other posts I've been working on for a while but haven't finished.
A benefit of studying abroad through the USC study abroad office is that since we pay USC tuition which is substantially more expensive than Queen Mary tuition, USC uses all the extra money to organize trips and excursions for us! The first one was supposed to be a trip to see The 39 Steps in the West End (the London Equivalent of Broadway) but the show ended up being cancelled due to a water main leak! Thankfully, we were able to reschedule and see the show another time. It ended up being quite funny and I was very impressed.
Additionally, the USC Alumni Association, London Chapter organized a pub night and invited all the students to join. It turns out, the band is coming to London later this semester and they are organizing a pub crawl for us all! That's definitely one of the best things about going to USC is being part of the Trojan Family, even when you're overseas!
Anywho, USC organized a day trip for us to go to Didcot and Oxford. Didcot is the home of a very old train station and houses a fairly extensive train museum. They have restored some of the world's oldest trains and have them on display. We had a guided tour of the museum which turned out great because our guide was an elderly man who had spent most of his life driving trains and pulled out pictures of himself driving some of the trains that were on display. As one of only three engineers in the group, I think I freaked out some of the humanities majors by geeking out hardcore as we were trekking through their machine shop.
After the train museum in Didcot, we continued our train journey to Oxford. Oxford was very nice, but different from how I expected it to be. I guess in my head I envisioned a cross between an ivy league school and Harry Potter, but honestly it was more like a regular small European town. Certainly, many of the buildings were beautiful, but it wasn't on the scale that I would have expected. We visited a church where they supposedly filmed some of the great hall scenes in Harry Potter, but it was much smaller than the film made it seem.
Here's some pictures:
I thought the architecture was pretty cool.
Just chillin' and feeling like I'm at Hogwarts.
The "great" hall. Honestly, the philosophy library at USC is prettier.
We ended the night by going to see Spamalot! It was a fun show and most definitely ripped off of Monty Python and the Holy Grail. In fact, it was almost exactly the same as the movie. Unfortunately, our seats were pretty terrible, but that didn't stop us from still getting in a few good laughs.
Anywho, I know this happened ages ago, and I'm so sorry for being the world's worst blogger! I'm trying to keep up!
Stephanie
So - first let me say, I'm back from Morocco!! Morocco was SO amazing, wonderful, exciting, different, beautiful, exhilarating, relaxing, strange, and awesome and totally warrants a really long post detailing everything I did, saw, and experienced while there. I intend to write this post soon! But - first, let me catch up on some other posts I've been working on for a while but haven't finished.
A benefit of studying abroad through the USC study abroad office is that since we pay USC tuition which is substantially more expensive than Queen Mary tuition, USC uses all the extra money to organize trips and excursions for us! The first one was supposed to be a trip to see The 39 Steps in the West End (the London Equivalent of Broadway) but the show ended up being cancelled due to a water main leak! Thankfully, we were able to reschedule and see the show another time. It ended up being quite funny and I was very impressed.
Additionally, the USC Alumni Association, London Chapter organized a pub night and invited all the students to join. It turns out, the band is coming to London later this semester and they are organizing a pub crawl for us all! That's definitely one of the best things about going to USC is being part of the Trojan Family, even when you're overseas!
Anywho, USC organized a day trip for us to go to Didcot and Oxford. Didcot is the home of a very old train station and houses a fairly extensive train museum. They have restored some of the world's oldest trains and have them on display. We had a guided tour of the museum which turned out great because our guide was an elderly man who had spent most of his life driving trains and pulled out pictures of himself driving some of the trains that were on display. As one of only three engineers in the group, I think I freaked out some of the humanities majors by geeking out hardcore as we were trekking through their machine shop.
After the train museum in Didcot, we continued our train journey to Oxford. Oxford was very nice, but different from how I expected it to be. I guess in my head I envisioned a cross between an ivy league school and Harry Potter, but honestly it was more like a regular small European town. Certainly, many of the buildings were beautiful, but it wasn't on the scale that I would have expected. We visited a church where they supposedly filmed some of the great hall scenes in Harry Potter, but it was much smaller than the film made it seem.
Here's some pictures:
I thought the architecture was pretty cool.
Just chillin' and feeling like I'm at Hogwarts.
The "great" hall. Honestly, the philosophy library at USC is prettier.
We ended the night by going to see Spamalot! It was a fun show and most definitely ripped off of Monty Python and the Holy Grail. In fact, it was almost exactly the same as the movie. Unfortunately, our seats were pretty terrible, but that didn't stop us from still getting in a few good laughs.
Anywho, I know this happened ages ago, and I'm so sorry for being the world's worst blogger! I'm trying to keep up!
Stephanie
Thursday, February 23, 2012
Morocco!!!!!!!!!!!
Hello All!
I'm going to MOROCCO in a few hours!! I'm so so so so so excited and really can't wait to get there and experience a bit of non-Western culture. Anywho, unfortunately I haven't had time to finish the posts that I've been working on (namely Sweden, Denmark, Oxford...) but I promise when I get back I'll post more! I'm taking the weekend off traveling next week so hopefully I'll have a bit of time to catch up.
Until then, I'll be in Morocco!! yah!!
Stephanie
I'm going to MOROCCO in a few hours!! I'm so so so so so excited and really can't wait to get there and experience a bit of non-Western culture. Anywho, unfortunately I haven't had time to finish the posts that I've been working on (namely Sweden, Denmark, Oxford...) but I promise when I get back I'll post more! I'm taking the weekend off traveling next week so hopefully I'll have a bit of time to catch up.
Until then, I'll be in Morocco!! yah!!
Stephanie
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