Here is an experience of a student like you
all who did her college in London. Please read and do go to the source for
detailed experience. It will help you in looking forward to a phenomenal
experience instead of being nervous about living you birthplace!
“Arriving
in London, I already knew I was meeting up with a couple other girls because
our flights were arriving near enough to each other. And before I knew it I was
officially on British soil.
The
next step was to take the tube from Heathrow to the flat that I would be living
in for the next four months. Fortunately, one of the girls I had met up with
was my new roommate, so we had a chance to get to know each other. After about
an hour or so, we arrived. Our flat was a couple blocks from the station, and
we eagerly raced up the blocks to get to our building. We quickly got moved in
and set up, and then we had a day and a half to adjust to the time zone and
begin exploring. As I recall, the 14 or so of us all went to Nando’s for dinner
that night.
I
loved every class I took in London. Most of my classes were in a small building
a few blocks away from my flat. There I took a religion class, an art class,
the seminar we all were assigned, and a class about Contemporary Britain, which
allowed us to look at current issues and differences between Britain and the
U.S. For the most part, these felt like ordinary U.S. classes, just meeting
once a week for a couple hours instead of twice a week for one hour or so.
There were a lot more ‘field trips’, though. I was at a different museum each
week, and I got to visit several different places of worship, and even meet a
practicing witch as part of the religions course.
The
class that felt the most foreign to me was the class I took through London
South Bank University (LSBU). I come from a small college where 30 students are
considered an overfilled class. To sit in a lecture hall fitting 300 was a huge
change. In addition, we had different lecturers each week as they took turns
presenting on their areas of expertise. And the two-hour lecture was followed
by a two-hour seminar where we worked together in small groups on a final
project. Although this was a big adjustment for me, I found that I rather
enjoyed this class. It was structured differently to the classes I’d taken in
the U.S. and I found the change pleasant and challenging in exactly the right
ways.”... Please go to source for more. And if you are on the verge of making a
study abroad decision, do visit
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