{"id":7811,"date":"2015-05-15T13:30:31","date_gmt":"2015-05-15T17:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/study-abroad\/?p=7811"},"modified":"2024-01-30T09:49:41","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T14:49:41","slug":"first-impressions-of-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/first-impressions-of-london\/","title":{"rendered":"First Impressions of London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/study-abroad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/19198_10206090741695114_8371745217816557263_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7871 alignright\" alt=\"19198_10206090741695114_8371745217816557263_n\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/study-abroad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/19198_10206090741695114_8371745217816557263_n.jpg\" width=\"216\" height=\"288\" \/><\/a>Today we arrived in London and it was immediately exciting. We boarded a bus to take us to our hotel and the driver pointed out notable sights along the way, which made it interesting. I began taking videos so that I have a video journal to post on YouTube at the end of the trip. It did not take long for our exploring to begin because after just a little bit at the hotel, we went off to Covent Garden.<\/p>\n<p>My first purchase in England was an ice cream cone and then I watched street performers until it was time to move on. We went to dinner and had a fancy three course meal with the main dish being the famous fish and chips. Unfortunately I missed dessert because I had a play to attend. I should not say that it is unfortunate that I missed dessert because the play was incredible and the theatre itself was interesting.<\/p>\n<p>I learned that an intermission is called an interval in England and they sell ice cream during that time. I bought some. We then took the tube back to the hotel and I found that my roommates were already asleep. I did not blame them.<\/p>\n<p>One final thing I noticed was that there are very few trash cans in this city.<\/p>\n<p>I look forward to the rest of the trip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we arrived in London and it was immediately exciting. We boarded a bus to take us to our hotel and the driver pointed out notable sights along the way, which made it interesting. I began taking videos so that I have a video journal to post on YouTube at the end of the trip. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/first-impressions-of-london\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">First Impressions of London<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":350,"featured_media":7871,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[31],"class_list":["post-7811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-study-abroad","tag-london"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7811","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\/350"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7811"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10319,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7811\/revisions\/10319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}