Study Abroad Blog

Though it’s only Tuesday I’ve had quite the busy week already. Monday morning my group and I finished shooting our children’s television show, “The Friendly Forest”. Major thanks goes up to Abi from Michigan and Jeff from New Jersey two other international students who filled some much needed roles in our production. Right after filming I traveled to Liverpool to meet my friend, Naomi, a fellow Indiana State University student who’s been studying in Italy the entire year. While she is on break she decided to come visit me at Edge Hill in England, so I’m really excited to see a familiar face and show her my new surroundings. After a night out in town with Naomi I had to wake up early today (Tuesday) and begin filming a music video for another one of my classes. Filming went well and I got to see some smaller villages around the Liverpool area. I plan to do more site seeing with Naomi before she leaves Friday and I head to Malta next week. It’s quite easy to say I am all smiles at the moment. Cheers.

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Just wanted to give a short post of my busy Monday morning. I woke up after a day that will never be forgotten, I’m talking about Beer Olympics: Boot Camp edition. Have no fear videos will come along shortly. Row a friend of mine from the southern part of England, did the honors of filming the competition as I was busy captaining the red team.It was a total success and I got around six hours of sleep, so I was ready for the always dreaded Monday back. A week ago my group and I from my Children’s Television module planned to shoot some scene for our project, entitled “The Friendly Forest”. I will be playing the role of the magic talking tree. Fitting seeing as Indiana State are the sycamores. After meeting with my group around nine in the morning my entire face was then painted green. I looked like a low-budget version of Jim Carrey from “The Mask”. It was really cool though the experience I got shooting in front of green screen and seeing how the paint will allow us to place my eyes, lips, and teeth onto the tree without a problem. Pictures of how I looked will also be along soon as well as a video I’ve been meaning to upload, so stay tuned!

When you mention football in Indiana, names like Ditka, Urlacher, The Fridge, and other Chicago Bear greats come to mind, at least in the Moore household! But if you mention football in England, they aren’t talking about a game where you need ten yards for a first down and they aren’t sure what a quarterback does. Soccer as it’s called back home is known as football here, which most of you or at least I hope are aware of. People live and die by their teams, they don’t call themselves fans really, but more often you’ll refer to them as supporters. The atmosphere inside football stadiums is almost overwhelming. I had the chance to experience this when I traveled to Manchester to see Manchester City take on Porto in an Europa League match. My good friend Jamie Chapman my dorm room neighbor and huge supporter of Manchester City Football Club accompanied myself, and two other international students to the game. Before I left I told myself I have to make to at least one match, and I’ve accomplished that goal, but I’m ready for more!

 Jamie and I outside Etihad Stadium

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!