{"id":93,"date":"2022-06-05T19:50:49","date_gmt":"2022-06-06T00:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/london-summer-2022\/?p=93"},"modified":"2022-06-05T19:50:51","modified_gmt":"2022-06-06T00:50:51","slug":"staying-in-london-lessons-learned-from-study-abroad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/london-summer-2022\/2022\/06\/05\/staying-in-london-lessons-learned-from-study-abroad\/","title":{"rendered":"Staying in London &#8211; Lessons Learned From Study Abroad"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By: Allison Lam<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nothing has ever felt more surreal than traveling to London. Personally, I\u2019ve only ever traveled with my family. I was always scared to go anywhere too far without my parents. Truthfully I\u2019m not that knowledgeable about anything involving travel. Not only that, but I have traveled out of the country only one other time when I was young. So of course it was obvious that I was definitely not completely prepared for the trip. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I always try to take precaution, and my parents are very protective of me. We all tried to make sure I was fully prepared to go on my trip. Though, if I could go back and to give myself advice, I would probably mention a few things. First off, to pack more warmer clothes. It was to my understanding that the weather in London would be nice enough that I wouldn\u2019t need to pack any warm clothes. However, seeing as London\u2019s weather can change rapidly whenever it wants (a tour guide mentioned that this was normal for London weather), I find myself often stuck feeling a bit chilly with all the shorts and short sleeved shirts I packed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I would also tell myself traveling without my family can be sad at times. I was so excited to be traveling on my own for once, having my own responsibilities and rules. But even though I was used to being without my parents (thanks to dorming), there were a lot of times so far into the trip where I would miss them. If I could go back, I would tell myself that it was good to be excited, but to remember to talk to my parents as much as I could, whether it was on text or through call. Because while traveling for study abroad can be fun and interesting, it can also feel a bit lonely at times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By: Allison Lam Nothing has ever felt more surreal than traveling to London. Personally, I\u2019ve only ever traveled with my family. I was always scared to go anywhere too far without my parents. Truthfully I\u2019m not that knowledgeable about anything &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/london-summer-2022\/2022\/06\/05\/staying-in-london-lessons-learned-from-study-abroad\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1261,"featured_media":101,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/london-summer-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/london-summer-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/london-summer-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/london-summer-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1261"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/london-summer-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/london-summer-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/london-summer-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions\/102"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/london-summer-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/london-summer-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/london-summer-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/london-summer-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}