Surrey meets the USA

Hello! Its official! I am a Londoner now. I moved on Friday into Zone 1 of London, ie the most central part of London. I decided that it would be a once in a lifetime experience to get to live and work in central London, so I went for it! All my placement money is […]

Hey! I recently got an email about some questions that probably most of you coming to England will ask yourself. I have these questions asked to me all the time, so I figure I may as well write a blog about it! What did you do about a cell phone? Take your old one and […]

Hey! I just had the most amazing weekend! My best friend from home just spent four days in England with me. She had just finished a month in Rome on a study abroad and she decided that she would come see me! It was great. We spent three in London and one in Brighton. She […]

Hey! I’m back. I have been really busy on placement. It has been really fun, but loads of work. I am a software engineering intern at Microsoft based in London at the Lift studio. I am working on a new windows app that will be deployed on all windows machines! That is pretty much all […]

Hey! Last blog about Portugal before I tell you all about placement so far. Cascais was probably my favorite place in Portugal. I was actually least excited about this place because I wanted to go to Lagos this day, but I was very pleasantly surprised. Cascais was also only a single train from Lisbon which […]

Hey! It is my first week on placement at Microsoft! It has been amazing so far and I am learning lots. I will tell you more about that later though. This blog I want to tell you about Sintra. Both Sintra and Cascais (which I’ll tell you about in the next blog) are only about […]