Introduction to the city of Cardiff

Hey guys, it’s been a while I know  but better late than never right?!? This post will be covering some trivial facts about the city I will be staying in for the next couple of months. To me it is very important to familiarize myself with these my country cause  because it can make my transition into a totally new country a lot easier, for me at least.

  1. Cardiff became a city in 1905, and later was named the capital of Wales 50 years later.
  2. Cardiff is one of the flattest cities in Britain.
  3. Cardiff hosted the very first  game of the 2012 London Olympics– two days before the opening ceremony.
  4. Rail commuters in Cardiff were named the happiest in an index published by Campaign for Better Transport (CBT) in 2012.
  5. Cardiff was named the 6th shopping area in the UK.
  6. After the Romans settled in Cardiff in 55AD, they built a military fort on Cardiff Castle.
  7. Cardiff has the world’s oldest record store, which opened n 1894.

Hope you enjoy these facts, be sure to check back for more updates from Cardiff. Ttyl byeeeeee 🙂

Two Weeks!

Today marks two weeks of being in Japan!

So far, it’s felt like a dream. Our classes just started last week, and I only have one class a day on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays! Unfortunately, to balance that out I have a full 9am-6pm schedule on Wednesday… there’s just so many good classes that happened to be put on Wednesday though!

I talked before about how I was adjusting to my homestay, and now I love it! The food is great, but sometimes when my host mum is tired, I go out and buy a bento for dinner- but even that is great! It’s a cheaply prepared meal but so convenient and delicious. My friends live in the dorms, and I hear that the food is either a hit or miss most days. I’m glad to be in a place where every single meal is just a bite full of sheer bliss. Even though there’s still the language barrier, my host mum and I both try hard and it’s fun being with her! We rarely go out together, but it’s nice to live with her.

I call home frequently to my worrying mother, but there isn’t really much that I miss about home, though I do miss cuddling with my dog a lot… I also leave tons of messages on facebook for my friends! There’s a lot of things here that constantly remind me of them, so sometimes I get a little sad and miss them. More than anything, I wish they were here with me to experience Japan too! I think right now, I’m adjusting perfectly well. I haven’t really had another moment of homesickness, and hopefully it’ll stay that way!

Best Friends & Oktoberfest

The past ten days have been great! My best friend from home came to visit Prague and we spent four days in Munich and Bavaria to celebrate the opening day at Oktoberfest. The amount of people at Oktoberfest was like nothing I have ever seen and I was pleasantly surprised by the amount of Germans that  were there. I had heard before that Oktoberfest is filled with tourists from America and Australia, don’t get me wrong, I enjoy a good American party once in awhile, but it was nice to see that this German tradition still remains very German. There were more people in lederhosen than not, we definitely stood out. We had traditional Bavarian sausages, pretzels, and of course the beer – it was exactly how I had imagined it, a really great day!

Then next few days we rented a car and spent it exploring Bavaria. Last time I was there my friends and I went to Neuschwanstein Castle which was absolutely stunning. This castle was Walt Disney’s inspiration for Cinderlla’s castle in Disney World and it is surrounded by the beautiful, snow capped mountains, so I figured I HAD to bring my boyfriend and best friend here. Turns out driving through Germany without a GPS and a map that doesn’t have the castle on makes it a bit difficult, so we actually never made it to the castle. We ended up in a Bavarian village, Garmisch and it just so happened to be the day of their annual sheep festival. It was a beautiful village in the middle of the Alps full of lederhosen, beer, and sheep! It turned out to be a very “German” experience and we had a great time. As we continued on following signs to Kempten, where we would spend the night, we ended up driving through Austria, and to our surprise the Alps were even more stunning here. It was a gorgeous ride!

What I’ve learned through my travels is that you can’t have expectations, you can’t be upset if a day doesn’t go as planned, and don’t stress about finding a landmark or museum just because Lonely Planet told you to. If you’re lost, don’t waste your day frustrated and searching, make the best of it. Find something else out of the ordinary and embrace it, it will probably end up amazing you just as much, if not more. Just keep going, look for something different, in our case, take the road less traveled. We were thrilled we did, have no regrets for not seeing the castle, and made some pretty great memories along the way. Get lost and enjoy the ride!

 

A Sea of People at Oktoberfest

A Sea of People at Oktoberfest

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Me, My Best Friend, & Bernard, our Oktoberfest waiter

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Garmisch

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Sheep Festival in Garmisch

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Sheep Festival

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Austrian Alps

 

better late than never!

I guess I’m a bit late to this whole posting business. Sorry about that, but gosh have the past few weeks been busy:

 

THE LEAD-UP: 1 week before arrival

The week leading up to my arrival in London amounted to a bit more than a little hassle. I had to say goodbye to my family–both enormous and very local. I had to get all my paperwork together. See a doctor. See a dentist (didn’t actually get around to this one). Put my finances in order. And pack. Oh, the packing. It took over three days for me to figure out how to fit all the clothes, electronics, and books I wanted to bring into one mammoth-sized duffle. People say I shouldn’t have packed any books at all, not even the paperbacks. We compromised. I only packed like 8 books instead of the originally over ambitious stack of 20. So how’d the rest of the packing go? Well, the duffle wasn’t has mammoth sized as I needed.

And to top all that off, yes, I was nervous! Of course I was nervous. I was moving to a new country. London–the setting of my favorite fictional detective!

 

The spent the final few days before my departure in Long Island. These days were more relaxing than the previous ones, but not as relaxing as I’d hoped. I had a few lazy beach days in mind, but the universe stepped in and proclaimed IT SHALL NOT BE!  Instead, I spent most of the time helping my boyfriend finish doing what I’d finished the day before. Oh, I didn’t mention him yet? Well, my boyfriend and I are studying abroad together! How cool is that? Nervous about traveling to London together! People say we’re a power couple. We still don’t really know what that means–but now we have a better idea than we did before. And I think we’re going to continue discovering exactly what that means over the course of our many adventure across Europe.

 

 

Fukuoka

Just a little side trip between the time when we arrived in Japan and before we left for Nagasaki!
Since quite a bit of us came to Fukuoka early, we got to explore the surrounding area! I woke up and left at 7:30am with some friends and other students from the JASIN program to go sight seeing and shopping!! Our friend Matt had been there for a bit longer than we had, so he acted as our tour guide for the entire day!

Down the street from the hotel is a street full of temples!! They’re so beautiful~ It was early morning so unfortunately we didn’t go inside any of them. We continued to walk down a loooong way and went up Fukuoka Castle!! It was steep and a little bit tiring and scary, but the views from the top were gorgeous!

Here’s some with Gunter!

Our first meal of the day was just food from a 7-11, but we decided to walk around to the back and just eat there rather than going to the park lol.

After that we walked over to the park, centered around a HUGE pond. It’s pretty hot, so the nice breeze by the water felt so nice~ we walked around and through it. There were so many gorgeous views, it reminded me a little bit of Central Park back home.

We continued down and walked up a hill to a little area for sitting, and then wandered off from there to find a bunch of little shrines.

Some friends bought some gifts, and from there we turned around to go home.

On the way back, we stopped by this huge shrine!

I learned that people are supposed to walk on the sides, because gods and deities walk through the center. Shrine maidens (Miko) and priests walk through the middle as well. We saw a Miko talking to our friends and walked over, and into one of the shrines to buy souvenirs. I bought this!

It’s for making my wish come true (I wished for eternal happiness for me and my friends!).

After that we decided to go to a book off… which we ended up not being able to find… But we did find another mall area with a book/hobby shop at the top! I was so excited at seeing all of these anime series that I love.

Seeing the Haikyuu!!, Love Live, and Free! merchandise stands made me a little sad since it reminded me so much of my friends back at home. It was still only my first day there, so I held off on buying anything.

We had a lot of fun here!

First Impressions

Ahoj! I’ve been in Prague for two weeks already and it has been absolutely amazing. Every time I leave my room I find new streets and different buildings each unique and beautiful. The first few days we had orientation where we were shown the city and given some useful tips for the semester and then it was up to us to start exploring. In the past two weeks I’ve been to numerous Czech restaurants and pubs, museums, parks, Cathedrals, and the Strahov Monastery. We have Czech language class every day for about 5 hours which is very fast paced and difficult but definitely useful. The Czech people know that they are a small country and the only country in the world that speaks the language so they appreciate it when we at least try to speak to them in Czech. Most people do speak at least a little English but not enough to rely on to get around.

This past Friday we took a day trip to Kutna Hora which is a small town about an hour and a half outside of Prague. While there we visited the Bone Church, which is decorated with the bones of 40,000 people who died in the Black Plague. We also visited a monastery and Saint Barbora’s Cathedral, both of which were beautiful. It was nice to get out of the city and see the country side for a few hours. Our weekends have been filled with some sight seeing, farmers markets, and other fun but laid back activities. I’ve found that it’s a little e

asier to do touristy things on week days because weekends are definitely busier.

I’ll end with a short list of what random things I’ve noticed since my arrival:

1. The peanut butter tastes really good here. Actually, all the food does which is a relief. They love to put garlic in things & that happens to be one of my favorite foods

2. The dogs are extremely well behaved. Most walk around without leashes, ride the trams and metros, don’t bark and are all really cute

3. Beer averages between 20 and 35 czk (about $1-1.50 for a .5L). Water is about 20 to 50 czk ($1-$2.50)

4. Smažený sýr is a mozzarella stick the size of a brick and it’s delicious.

5. Smiling at someone is basically saying you’re interested in them/trying to flirt (which no one told me until I was 4 days into my trip, whoops)

6. Plan trips early, it will take a load of stress of your back. It’s hard on your wallet, but easier on your blood pressure. Plus, it gives you something to look forward to. But don’t plan on going away every weekend. There’s a lot to explore in Prague and around the Czech Republic too!

View of Prague from the plane

View of Prague from the plane

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My room in Kolej Komenskeho

My room in Kolej Komenskeho

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Outside of Charles University

Outside of Charles University

The view from my Czech Language classroom

The view from my Czech Language classroom

 

Unzen Trip

Back when we first came, there was a trip planned for the end of orientation to go to Unzen! There was a whole schedule of things to do, but due to rain, we had to switch up the schedule a little bit (which actually ended up being a lot better)!

First stop was to the Aino lookout!

There was a little shop to buy souvenirs and also a place to look out into the ocean! It was gorgeoussssss. Things were a little expensive here so I didn’t really buy anything, but there were mimikaki (ear picks) with cute things on top of them! Like ramen bowls! I really wanted once but I already have one…

Next stop was to lunch! It was suuuuuuuuper yummy! The white blobs were mochi, which I surprisingly ended up not liking so much.

Our next stop was to see some houses buried by the debris flow caused by one of the mountains collapsing. It was interesting!! I really wanted to look inside urgh… you could kind of peer through the entire first floor of one of the bigger houses…!! I’m so in love with traditional Japanese houses and really want to see one…!!!

After that we went to the mountain! It was going to rain the next day, so we switched mountain climbing to today instead of the next day. There was the choice of riding the cable car up (for about 1,100 yen roundtrip), or walking up.

Walk up the mountain they said. It’ll be easy they said. It’ll be fun they said. (It wasn’t, it was hell).

Of course, I somehow made it up with my friend, and we sure did take long breaks… The great thing about walking up was being able to look down past the trees on occasion. It was gorgeous views all around, not to mention a super chilly wind that was the GREATEST relief for our gross, sweaty selves. Hilariously enough, a few of my friends and I stopped at one point to stand and take a break for quite a bit. When we started out trek up again…. we reached our destination right around the corner…!! And to think we stood there for about 6 or 7 minutes thinking we still had a while to go…

There was a little stairway to go up to the veeeeery top of the mountain! Even though I was ridiculously tired, it was a great feeling of satisfaction to say that I hiked all the way up that mountain! Also, I’m a poor and broke college student.

It was suuuuuper foggy so it’s not like we could really see much of anything…

There was also this thing.

I cheated and took the cable car down, more out of fear of hiking down rather than laziness. Some parts of the hike up were steep and a little tricky even going up, so I was constantly thinking of how scary it would be to come back down…!! One of my friends who trekked down actually slipped and fell…!!!!! It was nice to record the way down just to see the great views though! There were only a few moments were we could see the view while going through the foresty hell that was that mountain trail.

After that we went to the hotel!! My room was a huge western style room, where each of my roommates and I had our own beds. Visiting my friends room, some of them had only a tatami room (with futons in the closets), or half western and half tatami… I’m so jealous!!!!!!!! I’m actually still very upset that my room wasn’t even half tatami…..

Our rooms were so nice and spacious though~ and had great views!! This was from the morning we left www Only one girl who went out to party with some other students slept in her friend’s room, so only her bed is neat and made…

They gave us yukatas to wear, and a huge number of us went to the public bath downstairs!! This is really why switching mountain climbing to today instead of tomorrow really worked out so well. Had it been tomorrow, we would’ve all been sweaty and disgusting on the bus the entire way home!! Thankfully, we were able to all bathe together and sit outside just chatting.

Initially, many girls were hesitant to go outside without even at least a small towel covering themselves, but some of my friends and I were already used to it from going to the public bath in the hotel in Fukuoka! We had chats about various things (a lot of which I don’t particularly remember…) and boobs. When we asked some of the guys the next day what they talked about (since we talked a lot about being comfortable in our own bodies and how beautiful we all were- we wondered whether the boys did the same thing), they said they just talked about boobs. Nice to know how everyone appreciates a nice chest LOL.

After getting out, we went to dinner!!

!!!!!! I was so excited about it haha.

Afterwards, they made us play games! A lot of the NICS students don’t really speak english, so I think it’s kind of cute how we’re forced to speak Japanese to each other in order to communicate! Of course, their Japanese is waaaaay better than ours. One of the activities was introducing ourselves to each other, and a NICS student asked me if I was American and said my face looked Asian. I told him I was chinese! Being in a homestay and being forced to communicate in Japanese, I’m a lot more comfortable speaking in Japanese with other students, even if it means abandoning all grammar rules in order to get my point across!! (Later on, we’d always see each other on campus and politely greet one another… I wish we could have spoken more!)

There was some karaoke, and a lot of students went out to go get drinks. Sydney came up to where karaoke was taking place and said she went down to the public bath, but no one else was there, so I offered to go with her! The karaoke book was published in 2011, so none of my favorite songs were even in there… surprisingly, Alice Nine wasn’t either…!!!

Another friend joined us and we spent the rest of the night together chilling out in first the public bath, and then in our friend’s room! I then went back to my own room and slept there for the nice (even though the futon was sooo much more squishy and comfortable!)

The next morning, I woke up at 5:30am in order to go to the ~*~*special onsen*~*~. This one changed everyday, so yesterday it was for male use only, and today it was for females! It wasn’t anything special or that much different really lol. I showered and went to the outdoor pool (??? hot spring??) and immediately the cold morning chill hit my body and I was freeeezing!! The water was so warm and it really made everything feel suuuuuuper nice!! Eventually my body was so warmed up that the chill didn’t even faze me anymore haha. I eventually got out, and when I got back to my room it was already 6:30am!! I can’t believe I was there for an hour… it barely felt like it!

Anyway, I got ready with my roommates and we headed to breakfast… or attempted to lol. We had forgotten where it was, and asked one of the coordinators who pointed us to it. They let us in early, and we ate breakfast! It was a mix of Japanese and Western dishes. I have a hard time eating breakfast as is, so I ate a little bit and also some castella cake!! Cake is a totally appropriate breakfast food when your an adult. Yep. Totally.

We left to go see Shimabara castle!

They had renovated it, so it was more like a museum with display cases showing armor and weapons and artifacts. It was actually a little bit boring… Museums are really fun things but I guess I had my hopes a little too high since the outside was so cool! Seeing all of the stuff on display was still cool… just a little underwhelming though. At the very top of the castle was a lookout though! It was cool to see the surrounding area.

Afterwards we had lunch!

Tatami room again! Lunch was totally delicious~

We were allowed to explore afterwards and I went out and followed some other students.

There was this huge open path into the ocean. It was soooooo cool! There were amazing views. It was a little frightening how there were no rails whatsoever…!!! Aren’t they afraid of people jumping?

Such gorgeous views~

I walked to the very end and tried to peer down to see the wall, but got too scared… Eventually I just bent down and held my hands out on the floor in front of me in order to look over… it was super scary!! I couldn’t bring myself to take a picture out of fear of dropping my phone!! Walking back, I attempted to from the side… but I still couldn’t…!! It’s really scary!

The bus came to pick us up at 2pm and we drove on to our last stop, Chijiwa. On our way there, there were these gorgeous views of the ocean! It was a little hard to get my camera out in time…

At Chijiwa, they had these potato snacks!! Super yummy~

I bought a castella cake as a gift for my host mum! I also wanted to buy this set of keychains for my friends and I, but there were only four…

Brisbane

The next morning after our Cairns adventure, we got up early and went to the airport to fly to Brisbane. It is ironically pronounced Brisbane even though it is spelled like Brisbane. We found that out by listening to all the Australian locals and the flight crew. The flight was relatively quick, about 1 and a half hours  but it spared us 30 hours of driving.

When we arrived in Brisbane, we rented a car at the airport then drove to our hotel in the city if Brisbane. The hotel looked beautiful as we drove up to it. But it wasn’t as great as it looked inside, but it was good enough. It was very windy that day as the pilot had emphasized. After we relaxed in the hotel for a bit, we drove into downtown Brisbane to eat and walk around the shopping center. We planned to go to Springbrook National Park that day, but it wasn’t in the location that Google maps told us (dad was very mad about this and proceeded to say “that is why Google maps is stupid, you should always use mapquest” his passion for this was very entertaining). So, we just walked around the outdoor mall. After, we ate dinner in the mall at this good Mexican place. The outdoor mall was nice. We went to a bunch of stores, but they were high-end stores, so i didn’t buy anything. That part of Brisbane was a hopping place. There were many people, who I assumed to be locals, walking around with friends, family, or just alone. I felt like a local that night. It was a nice change from all the tourist attractions we were going to. Being in the city gave me a little taste of home, the few times I go to NYC. It was also hard to find a parking spot, especially a reasonably priced one. We went around the block many times before we decided to try a parking garage. But we ended up leaving that garage because is was $48 AUD (Australian Dollars) for two hours. Good thing we left because after going around the block a few times the nightly rates came up and we found a parking garage that was $15 AUD for as long as we wanted to stay. The lovely lady who drove us to the airport in Cairns did say that parking in Brisbane was ridiculously expensive. That lady also refused a tip from my dad. I thought that was very kind of her.

We fell asleep that night without dinner since we were both still full from a late lunch. Before we fell asleep, we tried to watch the series finally of 24: Live Another Day, but the internet wouldn’t let us because of the sound and our geographical location. That was very upsetting but I got over it haha.

The next morning we drove to Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary which was in/near Brisbane. This Koala Sanctuary wasn’t what I was expecting, I don’t remember what I expected to be honest, but it was more like a zoo with a lot of Koalas. I loved it though! The Koala sanctuary was a major tourist attraction and very busy, I was a tourist so I fit right in, Dad and I went to the reptiles, then koalas. We went to the main enclosure for a presentation about a few of the animals they have there. After that presentation, we stayed for an interesting koala presentation which we got to pet and take a picture of us petting the Koala. Koalas are one of the only animals that survive on a certain kind of leaf. when they are born they eat their mom’s poop to build up enzymes to be able to eat that leaf they survive on. This specific type of leaf has low energy so that is the reason that Koalas sleep all the time. Anyway, we also saw birds, reptiles, more koala’s, platypuses, and many other animals including kangaroos. I pet some of them, took selfies with them and just observed them in their natural habitat. After someone with food for the kangaroos left, that same kangaroo came over to me and kept looking up at me waiting for me to give him/her food. It was adorable! But I felt bad that I didn’t have food for it. I saw a kangaroo hop and jump over to people. I even saw a joey pop its legs and head out of his/her mom’s pouch it was so cute that I took a picture!

After we left the Koala Sanctuary, we went to Spring Brook National Park, the correct place this time. As we were driving to it (or in it i don’t really know where it started) it was really hilly and curvy so Dad was having a fun driving up those roads! The first stop was a waterfall lookout. About 100 meters walk from the car was the lookout. It was pretty with mountains and a city in the background. But the falls were wimpy, there wasn’t much water. Maybe I just thought that because I am spoiled with Niagara Falls. We then went to a Canyon lookout which was 10 steps from the car and it was absolutely breathtaking. I just stared at the scenery forever. I couldn’t stop taking pictures too, I was attempting to be artsy with my pictures but I failed. The next lookout we went to wasn’t that great because trees grew in to block the view. But off to the side was a nice view of the sunset in the clouds, my pictures looked like paintings. We ended up passing the last lookout we wanted to see, but we saw plenty of beautiful views that we were satisfied. I had a great time in Brisbane.

Next Stop: Byron Bay

Stay awesome <3

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I’m in Japan!

Man, where do I even begin?

First off, going through JFK security alone for the first time made me pretty nervous. Honestly, I cried saying goodbye to my parents. When I first said goodbye to them after moving into my dorm at New Paltz, everything was fine! I was hit by a little bit of sadness, but everything was okay! This time, I guess it really does make a difference being halfway across the world rather than an hour and a half drive away.

I rode the flight with my friends Jay, Alyssa, Edi, who were all going to Nagasaki University of Foreign Studies (which I’ll now start referring to as NUFS) through New Paltz. Alyssa was the only one without trouble sleeping through that darn 13 hour flight, but I think we all managed as well as we could. Being with them really made everything a lot better. Going through new (and quite frankly, downright terrifying) adventures with friends always makes everything better. Always.

We went from JFK to Narita airport, had a two hour layover (but it was about 7 for Edi) and then got on our flight to Fukuoka. We were greeted by several students who had also arrived for the program, as well as Jonathan Mays. We left for a short train ride to Hakata, and then checked into our hotel.

The next day, we left for Nagasaki. We did a little bit for orientation, and met our host family. I only have a host mum, who happens to run a house church. Her house is really small, but really cute! It’s just the two of us, and her english isn’t the best, but that’s okay! She tries her best to speak to me in english, and I try my best to use as little english as possible when replying in Japanese. I’m really surprised that I’ve been able to convey what I’m trying to say in my broken Japanese…!! She thinks my Japanese is really good but… honestly it’s terrible and everything so far has been a miracle…!! I speak better than I can listen haha!!

As a small note, when I first arrived, I was overwhelmed with this feeling of dread and sadness. I kept thinking, “What have I gotten myself into? Why am I even doing this? Can I PLEASE move into the dorms, I don’t want to do this!” I was so terribly homesick and on the constant verge of crying while up in my room. Returning home, my host mom spoke a lot more Japanese, and I could barely grasp it, adding even more onto my frustration with myself. But, I finally got connected to wi-fi and spoke to my mum. Of course, I would never let her know that I was even remotely upset while being here, but that really helped me.

But everything has been getting better.

Right now, there aren’t many Japanese students for me to interact with so I’ve been staying close and meeting more and more English international students. Everyone has been extremely positive and excited about their host families and being here, so I think that it’s okay!

Also, NUFS is on top of this huge hill. I managed to escape the walk this morning, but MAN does it look like a killer! Imagine the walk up from Vanderbilt, except about 10 times longer and worse. Also spiders.

But at least there’s GORGEOUS mountain views all around!

Nothing good comes easy

It would be easy for me to write that I have landed in Cardiff safe and sound but instead I am writing this blog from the inside of my house. The problem is with my visa, but, before you get worried I will be studying abroad, it’s just  that my departure date is lingering in the air until I get the okay from the British Consulate (pray for me.) Actually yesterday was supposed to be my departure date and thinking about it made me a bit sad but I know that soon I will be on my way so that is the upside.

However, ever since I have received the news about my visa all I have been doing is putting positive energy out into the universe and asking my friends and family to do the same for me. I have been packing, continuing my research of place that I would like to visit while in Cardiff, and just speaking my dream into existence with high hopes that everything will pull though in the end. I welcome this hardship because I know that the light at the end of the tunnel will be me flying through the air to a country that I have never been to in all my years on this earth. Since I have immigrated to the US, I have never been out of the country whether it be a vacation or family emergency. Also, I never thought I’ll be able to afford to study abroad cause it’s so EXPENSIVE! However, I am extremely blessed to have supportive parents that make it their mission to make sure their kids have the necessary tools to succeed in life.  So.. yeah not really doing much, I’m just playing the waiting game as of now and being as optimistic as I can towards this situation. If anything else arises I’ll be sure to update on this post. Thanks for reading and I’ll see you next time.

P.S. I will be vlogging, it will just have to wait till I get to the UK. My house has horrible lighting lols.