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Cheers From London!: Introduction

This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at SAU chapter.

 

Greetings from London, my lovely friends!

I’m pleased to announce I will be blogging especially for you all the way from London for the whole semester. I’m still in denial, so bear with me. I’ve been here for about three weeks now and I still cannot believe I am here. Each day that goes by I am just in awe of my surroundings as I walk the streets of London. It’s such a charismatic city, and my experiences have surpassed any of the expectations I had before coming to London.

I believe one of the reasons why I still can’t grasp the reality that I’m in  London is because of how difficult it was for me to be here. I applied not expecting much because I knew I wouldn’t be able to afford it, but after all of my struggles to find funds for my trip it paid off. My journey here has had its highs and lows. It was like a roller coaster so that when I was high at the top it was because my future in London was promising, but when it was low it was because my time here would never happen.

Now that I’m here, I’ve taken nothing for granted. And I feel like I observe everything around me and truly appreciate everything this city has to offer. I’m so excited to bring you all coverage with my adventures in London!

Mary is a senior at St. Ambrose University majoring in English and journalism. She is originally from Naperville, IL and hopes to one day be back in Chicago. In the past Mary has interned for Sourcebooks, a publishing company in Naperville, and this past year she studied abroad in London and interned at Parliament. She hopes to one day be an editor in publishing at a magazine or at a publishing group like Penguin. Besides being the founding editor of Her Campus St. Ambrose, Mary is also a writing tutor at St. Ambrose. In her free time, she loves to travel, hang out with family and friends, and shop a little bit too much at Gap and J. Crew!