Living In London

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London Living…

Unshockable, Multicultural, Intellectual, Introverted, Liberal, Theatrical, Historical, Reserved, Proper, Exciting…..What isn’t London?

Living in London for an entire academic year was quite the experience. In no other place can you witness a wide amount of cultural diversity working together in one crammed mecca. The way the city operates from riding the underground, shopping at the supermarket, walking on oxford street, etc., is something completely different to any other place I lived before. At first I was really tired and couldn’t keep up with the high speed of things and would be very exhausted after coming home from school. Sooner or later I adapted into the way this metropolis operates and enjoyed its special charm along with the rest of its 7.4 million people.

London is the world’s largest multi-lingual city with more than 100 languages spoken. The large variety of ethnic backgrounds come from Britain’s commonwealth, Asia, Australia, the European Union, and also South America. Americans arrive in London expecting a silver platter of tea and crumpets when really all they find is an impressive collaboration amongst the different cultural backgrounds and an overabundance of fried chicken and curry kebab stands. The UK has such an important foreign cultural influence that according to the BBC, it has now adopted ‘curry’ as its national dish. The UK not only exposes itself to best of the world’s cultures but celebrates it.

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London Peoples

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Friends From London…

Studying abroad in London was a great experience and opened a new door for making friends from around the world. I was really fortunate to meet such good peoples who came together from all different backgrounds and countries. I even had a neighbor from Burma.

London is a great place to study because of the different array of people you meet and how everyone I met was interested in each other’s backgrounds, culture, and views of the world. It was truly an international and multicultural enriching experience and I learned so much just by making friends with people who were not American. I was really fortunate to break away and embed myself into a different surrounding and learn about myself and my country by listening to my friends and what they had to say.

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The Queen’s Golden Jubilee

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Long Live The Queen

A four day celebration marks 50 years of glorious reign.

London celebrated The Queen’s Golden Jubilee commemorating 50 years of a glorious reign with parades, parties, concerts, and a thanksgiving service at St. Paul’s Cathedral. The Celebration attracted more than a million people to Buckingham Palace, Green Park, St. James’s Park, through The Mall to Admiralty Arch to Trafalgar Square. This event has proved the strong relationship between the people and Sovereign through the past 50 years of British history.

The celebrations and festivities displayed the unreserved British pride with more than a million spectators waving the Union Jack, singing “Land of Hope and Glory”, and uniting with other British of all colors. Multiculturalism and diversity were themes expressed by the events with a parade of 36 organization’s representing Britain’s ethnic minorities and ambassadors from its 54 commonwealth nations. Accompanying the parade was a gospel choir of 5,000 singers belting out uplifting soul. The finale was a crowd pleaser with a red, white, and blue low-level fly-by with 27 Air Force aircraft.

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