The place I was most surprised to find Shakespeare was Westminster Abbey, going Into the tour of this church I was expecting to mostly see historical artifacts on past kings and queens but there was much more than what I had imagined. In the church there is some of the most famous and talked about people that you have heard being talked about all through your history classes. Not only Shakespeare but there were artifacts commemorating people like Martin Luther and Stephen Hawking. I learned as a result the impact and how important Shakespeare was to the people of London and there world. I always knew the name but never dived deep into it and learned a lot about his play writing and lifestyle before playwriting. I also assumed his casket would have been in the church to but I learned it was not and it was in his hometown Stratford (which we ended up seeing later)

If I could go back a few weeks and prepare better for this trip there’s a lot of things I would put into consideration, starting with the style of clothes that I packed for this trip. I started planning for London with the hope of it being very warm most of the days even though I knew London isn’t known for being very hot and has spurts of random rain but I was blinded by the summer vibe and bought a ridiculous amount of shorts that won’t get to be worn till I am back home. I actually only got to wear shorts one of the days that I was here and it ended up raining. Luckily I overpacked and had enough pants to get me through. Another thing I would have told my old self to better prepare for was to convert my US dollars to pounds weeks before I left because I tried to do it on the last day and ended up having to swipe my hard the whole time which made my cash useless.