After weeks of stressing about what to pack and checking a thousand times to make sure I brought my passport, I finally arrived at the Pittsburgh International Airport. Going through security without any issues made me feel slightly better but I was still very anxious about the flight. Usually my flight anxiety goes away once […]
Tag: London
Day Two: Regent University
Jason MacKenzie treated us to a lecture about the current landscape of media in the UK at Regent University this morning and discussed some really interesting topics. He talked about platforms becoming more like publishers of their own news content and journalists seemingly working to produce content and not so much news stories due to […]
Day 1: Team No Sleep
One of the hardest things to do is sleep on your way to an exciting destination. It’s highly recommended you get some and it turns out to be extremely vital to your survival of activities on that coming day. We landed at Heathrow airport on, Monday, May 6th and hit the ground running. Landing felt […]
First Day & No Sleep
The last thirty-six hours have been nothing but hectic, but that’s what I get for packing last minute and not sleeping on the flight. I figured I would have some time to rest. I was wrong. The first day has already been overwhelming eventful. I have already done most of the typical London tourist attractions. […]
Day One: We Breathed The Queen’s Air
After a long (and somewhat painful) nearly seven and a half hours later on a flight from a familiar place to somewhere brand new, we arrived at London Heathrow. Let’s talk math for a second – London is approximately 3,000 miles, one ocean and one seven-hour plane right away from Pittsburgh. We hit the […]
Day 1: Landing in London with a Royal Baby
Today officially began the start of what is shaping up to be a great adventure. Arriving at the airport, I was full of anticipation. What if I couldn’t get through customs? What if my suitcase was too heavy? What if, what if, what if… Luckily all of these worries were quelled by the group coasting […]
Day 1: Madeline in London
Just so we’re clear, I do NOT enjoy speaking about myself in the third person, but I had to use this title as an ode to one of my favorite childhood books. I remember reading it when I was little and hoping one day I would make it to the city of London, and now […]
Day One: Paid to be Here and Paid to Pee Here.
Our plane touched down at Heathrow London Airport, the second busiest airport in the world; no where near as busy as Pittsburgh International Airport, which I saw for the first time. Straight off of the plane, we loaded onto a tour bus, and it was weird to be on the “wrong” side of the road […]
Journey Across the Pond: Day 1
Welcome to England The beginning of our trip started when we landed in England at the Heathrow Airport around 10:04 a.m. Jet-lagged and in desperate need of coffee we made our way through the airport, collected our luggage, and met our guide David, before heading into London. Buckingham Palace The first stop on our trip […]
London: A New Hope
]Today marks the beginning of our journey through the United Kingdom. We left Pittsburgh last evening and landed in London this morning. Yes, the classic red-eye flight. I’ve never been on a plane for so long (7ish hours I think??), and I’ve never been on a red-eye flight, so that experience was interesting, to say […]