Hello, Blog! I am glad to say I have spent another week eating good food and seeing what London has to offer. Here’s what I got up to! In an effort to continue my London initiation, my flatmates took me out to a British pub called J.D. Wetherspoons, commonly known as “Spoons,” where we enjoyed drinks and delicious chocolate fudge…
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Changing Leaves and Changing Playlists
Hello, Blog! October is surely flying by, and I’m finally getting a taste of the typical London weather: rainy, grey, and wet. Rather than let this get my spirits down, I’ve decided to embrace the persistent gloom and see a silver lining in the overcast skies. This week, I conducted what is one of my favorite annual projects—formulating the perfect…
Finding Out Who’s Scarier: Ghostface or Regina George?
Hello, Blog! Yet another week has passed and I’ve run into nary a British celebrity—not even Harry Styles on a Lime bike. In other words, nothing particularly interesting has transpired in the world of Camden on account of my dutiful attendance to many English lectures and seminars. While I find the subject matter to be quite interesting, I refuse to…
Mr. and Mrs. Jenkins in Europe
Hello, Blog! I am glad to say I have another week in London under my belt, and this week was especially thrilling because my parents visited me! Although I arrived in this country alone and have spent a couple of weeks gaining independence and officially entering adulthood, nothing made me happier than to know that my parents were coming to…
London Might Be My Cup of Tea
Hello Blog! My name is Maggie Jenkins, and I am currently a junior at Wellesley. At the moment, however, I am not writing from our small Massachusettsian campus, but rather from my small flat in London, England. As a result of months of meticulous planning and a decent amount of self-prescribed British telly, I am spending my fall semester studying…