{"id":23456,"date":"2025-06-03T16:40:13","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T20:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/?p=23456"},"modified":"2026-05-12T16:08:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T20:08:21","slug":"spc-england-london-is-a-city-that-i-have-fallen-in-love-with","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/spc-england-london-is-a-city-that-i-have-fallen-in-love-with\/","title":{"rendered":"SPC England: London is a city that I have fallen in love with!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have to admit, the beginning of the trip I was a dissociative mess. The plane was filled with people, I was squished between two men who snored. I was relieved when we finally landed, only to be stuck on a warm bus for three hours. We arrived at the hotel, had time to place our suitcases in a storeroom and dash to meet the other group for dinner. I knew, as we were speed walking to the restaurant, that this trip would be filled with plans unraveling. I could not have been more happy.<br>The reason as to why I was not anxious as I explored a unfamiliar country and why the chaos was pleasing, was the people I traveled with. My Professors, my fellow SPC classmates and the British tour guides, made this trip feel like a wonderful dream. The group I traveled with were filled with lively personalities, that made even a introvert like me feel comfortable and accepted. There was never one moment where I had felt left out of left behind.<br><br> Our tour guides had such lovely humor as well. One joke I will never forget was with the tour guide showing us Tower of London. He was mentioning how posh a young boys school was. It was little moments like these that made the trip for me. Yes; witnessing various different cultures, just walking down Whitechapel Rd (where our hotel resided) and the architecture of hundred year-old buildings that would make any architect envious, was thrilling. However, the discussions I shared with my classmates, Professors, and our main guide Simon are discussions I could never and will never forget. London is a city that I have fallen in love with, I have the people I met to thank for that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>-Caley, SPC England Study Abroad Program, May 2025<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have to admit, the beginning of the trip I was a dissociative mess. The plane was filled with people, I was squished between two men who snored. I was relieved when we finally landed, only to be stuck on a warm bus for three hours. We arrived at the hotel, had time to place &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/spc-england-london-is-a-city-that-i-have-fallen-in-love-with\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SPC England: London is a city that I have fallen in love with!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1966,"featured_media":23457,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[920,947,878,7,24,973],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-england2023","category-england-2025","category-scholarships","category-study-abroad","category-travel","category-england-scotland-2027"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1966"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23456"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23458,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23456\/revisions\/23458"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}