Life so Far

Hello,

I am a Canadian who has recently moved to London and am going to tell my story about this up coming year as it comes. So to tell you a little more about myself I am 18,  just graduated high school in June, love telling stories, and am on a GAP year in London before going back to school next year. I am known for my stories some people love them others mock them. My cousin tells me they aren’t stories they are just sentences of facts that have happened to you. I have now been in London for just over a month and I have some family friends here and one cousin for now. I am not 100% sure why I chose to come to London or what my whole plan is while I am here so I’m kind of just taking things as they come. I have always had a fascination with London and I’m not sure if it is because I truly love the city or if its just because the one cousin I’ve looked up to lives here. When I came here I joined a group called BritBound and met some other Canadians as well as Aussies and Kiwis.

My life for the past month has kind of just been a world wind. My mom came with me to get me set up and stayed with me for just under a month and recently went back home about a week and a half ago. When she was here I had my sister visit us from Edinburgh for a week, she is on an exchange there until Christmas. We went to Cambridge as well as Windsor which were both beautiful. I also got a flat and moved in while both of them were still here which was an experience on its own. There was so much to learn about moving to England, nobody tells you that you need a tv license when you live here or you need to pay council tax even if you are renting. Since my mom has left, yes I’ve had a little cry about it, I’ve been trying to find different things to do. I have been to the Chelsea Football Club and had a tour, I saw Alan Carr: Chatty Man filmed live, I went to the British Museum, I saw the poppies with my cousin at London Tower, we also walked across London Bridge, along the Thames, and went to Borough market. With my family friends I have been to see the outskirts of London and many parks and another market.  I learned about 15 minutes after my mom left how much I miss having a car and how heavy 3 bags of flour can be even if its only a 15 minute walk home. The one thing I miss a lot is my dog, Madeline, and my horse, Justin. The first thing I did when I got here was put pictures of them on my bedroom wall.

I don’t want to make this too long but I hope to post at least once a week and we’ll see where this takes us. Thanks for taking time to read this and come on my journey with me. Hopefully you found it somewhat interesting and I promise after this one things will be more interesting and fun.

Ashley