Seeing the Sights

It's been a busy couple of days so far and I've already seen and done so much! On Tuesday we had an orientation with EUSA and met a lot of students from other American universities; Kansas, Texas A&M and USC.  We also did a walking tour of London and saw a lot of the major sights.  It was crazy to be standing in front of Westminster Abbey when a few weeks earlier I had gotten up at 4 in the morning to watch the wedding there.  Here's a little bit of what I saw:

Westminster

Big Ben and Parliament

The road leading to the palace. You can see Buckingham at the very end.

Trafalgar Square

My tube station!

On Wednesday, I went to meet with Rogers and Cowan for the first time and I'm so excited for my job! I'll be working with another girl from Texas A&M who is with EUSA as well and she's really nice.  It'll be reassuring to know there is someone else there going through the same experience. My supervisor's name is Kate Kelly and she's really fun. She said there's a lot going on in the office in the upcoming months so it sounds like I'll have a lot to do and experience a lot of different jobs with product placement and PR.  Some of the clients she named that they represent are Lotus (a popular British car company),  Make a Wish Foundation, and various British actors and television/movie studios.  Although she dropped a lot of  names, I didn't recognize a lot of them.  She did talk about taking me to meetings with clients such as going to movie/tv sets and I'm so excited for that! That'd be amazing to be on the set of a movie in production. I think it'll be a challenge, but I'm ready for it and I can't wait to get started. 

Last night we went to a party at a club called Foundation in Convent Garden that EUSA had for all the students that are here.  It was really fun! Definitely a big city kind of a place.  After that a few of us went to another club in the same area which reminded me a lot of Union back in IC.  It was fun to see Londoners around our age and see how they interacted.  We ended up having to take a cab home and I swear for as far as we had to go and how many people we had, it was a lot cheaper than the cabs in Iowa City!

Today, I think I'll explore around Spitalfiends for a bit and then tomorrow we're starting our British Culture course with a trip to the National Museum and then a dinner for Iowa students at night.  I'm looking forward to everyhting and I'll definitely be keeping everyone updated on the adventures.

Kelly