Hello! This week has been dull and raining. I kid you not, the sun has shown for maybe a total of 10 hours or less this entire week. Definitely lacking in Vitamin D. I hope the weather is better where you are! This week, we had a speaker, Dr. Musharraf Hussain al-Azhari, that came to …
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Birmingham, England
Happy Weekend Everyone! Gosh, it has been a long week and I am so glad it’s the weekend. 🙂 I hope everyone’s week was great and that you are now relaxing because you deserve it! Last weekend, Emma (a fellow Luther student) and I decided on a whim to get away since we had reading …
Why the Nottingham Program?
Good evening from Birmingham! I am currently visiting a different city and would make a post about my adventures here this upcoming week. This week has been quiet, mainly focusing on studies, so not much happening until this weekend. So I figured I answer a question that a sophomore Luther students are asking me. I …
Speaker of the Week
Hello Everyone! 🙂 It has been a quiet week here in Nottingham. Been busy with readings and research for an upcoming paper. Have you ever been researching and just get lost in a rabbit hole. One research article after another. For this 1500 word essay, I have read enough articles and books to write a …
Bath Adventures
Greetings from Bath! At this point in the post, I’m writing to you all this beautiful, historic city. The group and I traveled to Bath for a short weekend trip, which took several (4 hours) trains. Our stack of tickets felt like a deck of cards. The city itself is quite gorgeous, especially with the …
Taste of Paideia 450
I hope everyone’s weekend is off to a great start! My Saturday consisted of me waking up and heading to the library where I have been all morning and afternoon. This post is being written to give me a break from filling my brain with information on Theory of Mind. There is large amount of …
University Life
Hello Everyone!! I hope life is treating you all well. 🙂 As my title indicated, I want to take a moment and talk about how completely different university life here in the UK is. Coming from Luther College in small town Decorah, Iowa, I am certain University of Nottingham’s campus is larger than the downtown …
London Adventures
Hello Friends and Family!! As you can tell by the title, I just spent some quality time in London for the weekend. First impression of London is WOW. There is an endless amount of places to visit and events to attend. Three days is not enough time to take it all in. The best way …
Northern UK Travels
Hello Friends! Life had been one thing after another since coming to the UK. As I mentioned at the end of my last post, I was on a six day trip around Northern UK. We went to Lake District, Durham, and Edinburgh (Scotland). Lake District We took a coach (bus) from Nottingham to Keswick, a …
Week 1: Adjusting
Hey everyone! So it’s Friday evening and I have to say, it’s been quite a long week. My flight landed on Monday (Sept 9) at 8:30am at Heathrow Airport and all of us student got to the flat to unpack. And from there it’s been busy! Keep reading to see what I have been up …