Sam's Study Abroad Blog

Knowing that I only have just under a week left is pretty sad but my time in London really has been amazing. And this week has been no exception! In fact, it was one of my busiest weeks overall and a ton of fun! Monday was the last of my visits to the museums right around Imperial’s campus--the Natural History Museum. This was definitely one of my favorite museums overall, and they had a lot of cool exhibits about so much, from evolution to volcanoes to minerals and gems to so much more. A blue whale skeleton in the Natural History Museum Tuesday we had the USAC trip to a cruise on the river Thames and then a trip on the London Eye after class. The cruise was a nice way to see all the bits of London by the river. A view of Tower Bridge from the Thames around sunset The London Eye was slightly terrifying in thought to me, as someone who kind of hates ferris wheels but it ended up being really great. I think the whole very much enclosed, stable, ...

At the start of the week, some friends and I took a visit to the Victoria and Albert Museum. I feel like almost every museum I get to visit is so huge and has so much depth that I only scratch the surface, the same being true here. Not too long before, my art class had stopped in very briefly before heading to the Tate Britain again but this time we got a little more time to spend looking around. The cast room is particularly impressive, with plaster casts of some incredible sculptures. They also had one of Leonardo da Vinci’s notebooks and Shakespeare’s first folio. There was also the Ardabil Carpet, the world’s oldest dated carpet and one of the most beautiful, from Iran. There is honestly just so much in the museum that it seems like you’d need a week to see it all properly. The Ardabil Carpet Wednesday we went to Harrods since it’s hard to go to London and not hear about what is probably the most famous department store in the world (or at least the city...