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Final Picture Portfolio
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Reflecting
Looking back on my time here I am tempted to say that there isn’t anything that I would change, but that would be a lie. However, there is nothing I regret and I feel like that is more important. There are things that I wish I had carved out the time to do, or gone to see. But I don’t regret the things that I did instead of those things if that makes sense? I adore my time in London. This city has come to mean so much to me and it has become a home away from home. The feeling I got when coming back from being abroad was “thank god im home” and that sort of surprised me at first, but then settled in my heart as a warm comfort. I made friends with people I would have never otherwise known or interacted with and got closer to those that I did. I went to places like Paris and Rome and Milan and Portugal—places I had only ever dreamed of going. I got to show my family around the city and introduce them to the things that i have come to love about it and that made it even more meaningful. I have grown as a person, I have become more independent and thoughtful. I have also become more self-assured. This semester has changed me for the better. It will be a hard and bittersweet goodbye to London, but while I love the city... there is no place like home.
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Things I will Miss about London:
This semester has been one of the best experiences of my life, and while I’m ready to go home, I am really going to miss being here in London. I am comfortable here in the city, in a way I wasn’t sure I would be, and it is so nice to feel that way. Here is a list of things I will miss about London:
always something to do. At home, it is hard to find places to go or things to do whenever the urge strikes you. Here though if you want to go do something, chances are it is happening somewhere in the city.
The history. I fell in love with the range of history available here. It quickly became one of my favorite parts of being in London. It is the ability to walk on the ground you know a Roman soldier or citizen once walked on or seeing a wall that they built. It is mind-boggling to me
How walkable everything is. I love that everything tends to be 20 minutes away from everything else. Like Covent Garden is a 20-minute walk from school. And 20 minutes away from Trafalgar Square which is 10 minutes from Parliament. It is all just so easy to walk everywhere and I am really going to miss that.
The people. I am going to miss not only the people that have been on this trip since day one but everyone that I have met while here. Friendships developed in the oddest places and I hope that when it comes to the friends I made while here I can stay in touch and not lose them.
The Museums. I think that the British Museum is one of my favorite museums I have ever been to in my life and it is free. I am seriously going to miss not being a stone's throw away from it when I go home.
The freedom. I grew up a lot more on this trip than I was expecting to. I am really going to miss not being able to go anywhere or do anything I want to do at any time I want once I am home. I feel like here I have been so self-sufficient that I will feel at a loss once I’m home.
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Alison and I went to Porto, Portugal for our last free weekend. My aunt’s sister hosted us and took us a bunch of amazing places. She is also a professional violinist and she got us tickets to a concert she was performing in on Saturday night. We had an amazing time in the warmth and sunshine.
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Oslo
I think, now that we have seen all of the shows that we are going to see this semester, Oslo is by far my favorite. It was real in a way that none of the others had been. The story that the play told was intricate and moving, while also remaining hopeful and informative. It brought home the point that there is this large conflict going on in the Middle East, and it is not the same as the conflict happening between the US and Afganistan and Iraq, which I think for many Americans, all get lumped together. Oslo also told a story that not many people had ever heard before rather than just giving a new take on an old classic, not that there is anything wrong with that, but it was incredibly refreshing to see a play that had a new story to tell. I think the other reason that I loved it, as I mentioned before, is because it is real. The Oslo Accords were actual negotiations that took place, individuals from both sides really risked their lives in order to find peace for their people. I think that it says a lot about what people can do if they decide not to wear their causes as shields and actually make an effort to listen and not dismiss someone else on the basis that they happen to hold a differing opinion.
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Politics of Britain: Not as Different as I thought...
After spending the past couple of weeks reading through all of the articles posted on slack, and reading headlines that I come across on the internet and through the debate in Pete’s class, I have sort of realized that no matter what country you are in the politics are heavy and suffocating at times. I think that growing up in the US and hearing about the scandals and the party politics and so on, people look across at Britain and think that they have everything put together so much better than we do, simply because we don't hear about their party politics or small everyday issues like we do in the US about our own issues. It’s sort of a “greener pastures” phenomenon. However, after spending 3/4 months here, and trying to really understand the government and the politics of the UK I realized that everyone is sort of just as clueless as to how to approach the future as the states are. The US is going through a polarizing and difficult time after the 2016 election, and are struggling to cope with Trump as President. The calls he has made as President have been pretty horrendous, to say the least. It is difficult as an American to see the office of President abused in such a way. And I feel like many of us, when arriving in the UK, were thankful that we were getting a short break from all of that. But now, as I look forward to going home in 8 days, I realize that between Brexit and Theresa May the British are facing similarly unwanted and fretful situations. Being immersed in the country and the everyday goings on, I realized that Britain only looked so well put together because I had never looked past that first impression before. Politics here are just as party oriented as they are in the states, there are just a couple more parties. It was an enlightening semester, to say the least, and I am glad I had the chance to get out of my “pasture” and realize its the same grass, it's just your perspective that has changed.
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A couple weeks back I went to see the musical Motown. It was the first time that I ever attended a theater production by myself. I always like sharing the experience with other people, but when no one else could go with me, I just went by myself. It was eye-opening for me because I think that it is one of the best examples of how this semester abroad has changed and shaped me. I am most independent and self-sufficient than I was when I arrived. I have always prided myself on my maturity and ability to do things for myself, but for some reason going to see this show by myself and for myself made me realize just how much I had grown into the maturity I thought I had and it made me realize just how okay it is to take time to do things by yourself like that.
It was also an AMAZING show. I adore Motown music and all of the classics from that period were in the show and it illustrated the context in which they were all born and bred and it was probably one of the best nights I have had in London.
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I really loved our trip to Cambridge. I especially loved the Botanical Gardens that they had there. It reminded me a lot of my mom and how much she loves places like that and it made me feel much more calmed and centered than when I arrived, which was really special.
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Kentish Town City Farm: #2
I went back to Kentish Town Farm for the second time today and worked with the horses and kids. My job, for the hour and a half I was there was to help the kids get their horses ready to ride, be a side walker for the bigger horse, and help them put the horses away at the end of the lesson. It was actually alot more fun than I intially thought it was going to be, and I was able to meet more people which I think is part of the reason why I had such a better experience this time rather than last time only interacting with 3/4 people rather than the 7/8 I did this time. I spent most of my time helping this one girl named Tillie while she was riding the horse named Champion. Champion is not a small horse, and the reason for the side walker (aka me) was a safety measure. As Diane explained to me, the Farm sends their horses for a six week holiday so that they have a break from the lessons and children and can have more space than the smaller area they are afforded at the Farm to run around in. So after their horses get back to the farm they are friskier after not having been worked as much and they are not as used to the loud sounds of the city all around them, so they are more likely to spook at roudy kids in the flats next door or at all of the fireworks being set off, and when horses get scared, they run. So I was walking next to Tillie and Champion attached to a lead rope, which was attached to a halter he had on over his bridle, so that if he were to end up spooking I could be there to hold him back and ensure that if need be Tillie could get off. So I walked with her during the entirety of their lesson, which means I also had to run (and I mean more than a jog) around the lesson ring which was about 40x20 meters, about 4/5 times while she practiced her trotting. I was so much fun to talk to Tillie while I was walking with her because she would ask all of these questions about me and where I was from in the US and what it was like there, what my horse was like, what his name was, what breed is he and on she went. And she also told me about herself and how she started riding in Ireland and then has been riding at KTCF for 3 years and how much she loves riding. She thought that it was so interesting that New Jersey was so full of horses, she went a little starry-eyed at the thought of them all. She also asked a question that I did not know how to answer, not because it was so obscure or anything, but I had never thought of it before. She asked me “What is New Jersey like?” which sounds like a simple enough question, but I realized that I have never had to answer it before so I ended up telling her about how rural it was, but also full of suburbs and so on. Diane, who was teaching the lesson asked me a whole slew of questions about my horse and the facility I worked at. I found this conversation really interesting because for as many questions as I answered, she would also answer the same question, or a similar one in relation to herself or the Farm so I learned a lot about the facility and the people there. There were more people, such as Diane’s daughter and the other volunteers that I also interacted with and had conversations with, and I for sure, feel much more at ease there. It was also more soothing and comforting than I realized it was going to be, to be around the horses and to be able to touch them and be grounded by them. I don't think I realized how much I missed the feeling of doing that sort of work until I went there today and realized just how long I had been without it.
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The Royal Mews
In the same vein as my community placement, I thought it would be cool to go to the Royal Mews and speak to some people there about the horses there and their treatment and then sort of compare it to what I saw at Kentish Town City Farms the next day and really get a feel for the horse culture in London a little better. My family is in town so they went with me, and we got there only a little while after they had opened so we were able to talk to people and learn about the horses, their daily regime and things on our way through the exhibits. We stopped and talked to one docent who was walking around and had a long conversation with her. When we had arrived we noticed that there were two stagecoaches leaving the mews with a Rolls Royce and 3 mounted officers with them, and when we asked her what was going on, she said that there were two new ambassadors from Uganda and (I think) Lithuania in London to meet the Queen and they send out the coaches to pick them up and bring them back to meet her. While we were speaking to her about this another caravan was getting ready to go and she explained all the steps they were taking and why they were doing it, which I found fascinating. I asked her other questions about the facility, such as how many horses were kept on the property at one time, and she said that within the original Mews themselves only housed 4 horses at a time, but there were more stables further in the grounds of Buckingham Palace which housed the rest of the horses and that there were about 30 in total. Another docent that we spoke to later explained the regiment of exercise and work that the horses do. It was a really interesting experience and a fun look into the way that the horses are treated and used as working animals here in London compared to how we use them in the states, especially since my stable is in the “countryside” compared to these stables. One of the things I found most interesting is that there are times when the staff will exercise the horses by taking them to Hyde Park or St. James’ Park at like 6 am and exercise them there rather than in their ring. I’m excited to see how Kentish Town City Farm works their horses in the city, and get further involved into the horse/animal world here in London.
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