Study Abroad Blog

So the great people I live with here in England, thought it’d be a great idea to form teams and events for the first annual Eleanor Rathbone Beer Olympics. I’ve been taking antibiotics to fight an infection in my tooth, so I wasn’t able to partake, so I decided to whip out my camera and start filming. Five teams battled it out from three in the afternoon until around ten at night doing various events, before heading to town for more tom-foolery. After reviewing the clips I got I decided to put them in movie style trailers, take a look at the results. And congratulations to the Yellow Team, the only team complied of only Americans bringing home the trophy. Though really everyone’s a winner.

I usually have videos to go along with these, but just consider this a rant more than a blog post.

It’s the small things that change when you go somewhere new. Instead of Lay’s Potato Chips, it’s Walkers Potato Crisps. Instead of parking lot, it’s car park. Instead of the steering wheel being on the left and driving on the right, the wheel is on right and driving on the left. It’s not sidewalk, it’s the pavement, and a fag is not a negative term for a homosexual, but short for cigarette. Your dudes are your mates, things aren’t awesome they are proper good. Classes aren’t fifty minutes three times a week, rather once a week for three hours. Professors are lecturers. There is no Kool-Aid, but there is Vimto. You don’t say cheers only when you drink. Apartments are flats, the houses and cars are more compact, there are no SUV’S chugging gasoline at a terrible rate. No one say’s “Evening governor.” Which I’m totally fine with and didn’t believe to begin with. People often ask me the differences between here and being back home in America, but they are so small that I have to sit down and type them out to really begin to notice. I can’t complain, I feel I’ve adjusted well to all of these new things. I’m truly lucky to have this time in England, the massive amount of people I’ve met will hopefully be friendships I cherish for the rest of my life. It’s only February, let the good times roll.

Take a look at Edge Hill’s T.V Studio!

Also take a look at another Sycamore hard at work. John Wakim recently shot and edited this video to highlight Indiana State’s Air Force ROTC program. Great work John!

Take a look at my day spent in Southport!

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On my day off last week myself and another student from my home university traveled to Liverpool. As a Beatles fan this was life changing. Not only is full of Beatles history, but the city itself is covered in history, the architecture is some of the best my eyes have ever had the pleasure of seeing. The city is full of street musicians.street art, vendors, and shops. It was an unbelievable day and I hope to spend many more there while I’m in England

Check out the video above to see how my first day of courses went!

Want to know what some of the people are like that I’m sharing my accommodation with at Edge Hill? Meet Joe and Jacob by watching my video! When I arrived at Edge Hill I was placed in the dorm Eleanor Rathbone and I couldn’t be happier. A good mix of international students as well as students that come from all over England and Europe! Take a look!

One of the first trips that was planned by Edge Hill University was to Conwy. Above is a video of my trip and the beautiful castle there. Enjoy.

The video above shows my first day in Ormskirk! Please check it out. I’d love to hear feedback. It’s been a blast and it’s a beautiful campus. The town is an old market town and venders still set up tents to sell fresh produce and other small items Thursday’s and Saturdays. More videos to come!

This is the first chance since I arrived on Thursday to post, as we didn’t receive our username’s or passwords for the Edge Hill network. I will be posting very soon a video of my tour of the campus here and of Ormskirk. Tomorrow I will be traveling to Liverpool and will be getting lots of great footage of Beatles stuff! I’ll include my clips from Conwy Castle which we visited in Wales with the Liverpool footage.

I’ve made so many friends of many different backgrounds whether they are English, Irish, Welsh, French, or the other Americans we all have bonded quickly.