I arrived in England yesterday at around lunch time. The trip was a bit tiresome, and we had a little problem because the airline lost our luggage. But once we left the airport, I must say that I truly enjoyed my time. I’m here in England a little earlier than school, and I am staying with my roommate from Penn State at her aunt’s. We are about half an hour from London in a town called Orpington.

Yesterday evening one of Anita’s cousins took us on a walk around town. The town is so lovely and adorable! The homes are the cutest things in the world! And everyone seems to really like gardening lol I knew that England would definitely have a McDonald’s (bc honestly where doesn’t?), but i was very surprised to see a KFC, and a Burger King! haha While we were walking around we went into this store called Tresco’s, which is owned by Wal Mart. It was pretty nice, I saw a few things in there that isn’t sold in the States.

Today was spent mostly indoors. We had a small barbecue which I found interesting because the bacon and the burger was surprisingly different from any other that I’ve had. The burgers are small, like super small. lol and the bacon was circular, which actually worked out well because it fit the burger perfectly. Anita’s aunt has been to the United States quite a few times and noticed how surprised Anita and I was. She said when she visited she was surprised as to how big our burgers were, and she talked about how full it made her after eating just one.

We haven’t had the chance to visit London yet bc of our luggage situation. Fortunately we received our luggage a little earlier this evening and so we plan on visiting London tomorrow to get a few things, and go sightseeing of course. On Tuesday Anita and I are leaving Orpington and going to Rome for about 4 days. I am very excited because obviously i have never been to Rome! I am so excited to interact with the people, visit the sights, and of course eat the food!

Thankfully we chose this time to go to London. Anita’s aunt said that visiting London in the month of August sucks. Because for 1 month almost everyone in Rome (aside from politicians, and government workers) leave and go to their home villages. It’s like a city wide holiday, that literally lasts a month. So during that time the people there are mostly other tourists and those who HAD to stay to keep a store open or something.

Anyways that’s all for now. My next post should have pictures from Rome and London!

Location: Orpington, England, UK