This has gotta be the good life

Back in the USA, and missing Europe with all my heart.

2 August:

Class in the morning, back at ol' Regents. It was so nice to get back into our London routine. Back in the flats, back in Kilburn, back to the Queens Arms... Back home. :)

Tuesday afternoon we had a tour of the Globe Theatre, which was pretty awesome, since I'm a big Shakespeare nut. We saw As You Like It later that night, which was also neat. We were all dressed up in our Sunday best and had a lovely evening!

3 August:

Last class in the morning. I won't lie, it was rough to imagine that we would never be back in Regents again. We talked about all the ups and downs of the trip, everything we learned and thought and liked and disliked. I tried my best not to think about leaving, lol.

Tiffany and I went to the Tower of London after lunch. I definitely enjoyed that! Seeing the Bloody Tower and Wakefield Tower and the crown jewels, all of that had been on my list since the first day. It was a nice way to end the trip, with something I'd been dying to see since the beginning!

We went to the Old Bell for one last pub dinner and starting packing and repacking (and repacking). We stayed up the whole night, attempting to force ourselves to sleep on the plane (it didn't work, lol).

And that was our last night. Sitting up talking, laughing, joking around with SNL videos... Our last night together as family.

Kalen, Kristine, and Tiffany became some of my best friends in such a short amount of time. We don't understand it, but it works. I'm gonna miss you guys so, so much. Just like I'll miss London and Edinburgh and Dublin. And the tube. And our flat. And our pub and our school and our Tesco and everything else that made Kilburn feel like home.

I cried as the plane soared over England and headed home, just as I cried when it left Detroit on July 1. Culture shock is starting to set in here, just as it did when I got to London. Eventually it will settle itself out, just as it did there...

This experience changed me. This experience was the very best of my life, and I will never forget everything we did and saw and went through. I loved every single second!

But now it's time to be American again, to go back to my daily life just as it was before. Well, a little different, I suppose...but still back to real life. Back to reality!

Welcome home, love :)