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London Photo Update!

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Hello there! I finally got the photos from my phone uploaded to my computer and decided to post a few of the best ones here! Enjoy! Your typical "Big Ben From Across the River" Picture And your even more typical "Me with Big Ben!" picture The campus grounds at the University! Seriously such an incredible campus. I feel so lucky to say this is my school. Kensington Palace gates! Waiting for them to let me in... Kensington Gardens Buckingham Palace with the flatemates (Devin and Meghan) and Kate! We got matching Cath Kidston Oyster card holders. We're SO CUTE Selfie with the Shard! This was actually pretty difficult, but it turned out so cool! Selfie with The Eye! Random selfie. I think it just sums up that tourist day pretty well   Piccadilly Circus at night! So so cool The Shard. Woah Trafalgar Square looking all pretty in the sunshine St. Pancras station. The Harry Potter fan in me kinda...

I moved to London!

Greetings from London!! Seriously, that never gets old. Several times a day it hits me again that: 1. I am currently in London 2. I LIVE HERE NOW which means 3. I have a whole year to explore this amazing city! And trust me, there is plenty to explore. I have been in London for 8 days now, and am finally starting to feel like I'm adjusting to the time difference (7 hours ahead of Denver) and am finally  starting to feel settled. It's been a crazy week, between international student orientations, graduate student orientations, Sport Psychology orientations, and then trying to buy food and bedding and toiletries and keep my Oyster card topped up and getting a UK sim card so I can use google maps when I get lost (because it happens. This city is huge and there are so many people and buses and tubes and... well, you get it) and trying to find where laundry facilities are and getting my BRP (Biometric Residence Permit- kinda like a green card in the states- means I'm legal...