I decided to go abroad alone to get the full experience. Quickly I realized I joined the wrong program. First, they have no accommodation of rides from the airport to the residential stay. For someone who is young and never been to London I took a taxi which costed $200 roughly out of pocket. Hindsight I should have took the tube but again first time to London alone I didn’t feel comfortable. Second, the residential was in the worst part of London. Very unsafe and high crime. I didn’t feel safe here but alas I was required to make the 40 minute tube ride to class every day which was ironically in the nicest part of town other side of the city. This meant waking up 2 hours before class and hoping I could make the trains correctly on my own. There is no program dinner and not many ways to meet other people beside orientation and plays the program will go to. I spent majority of the program alone because the clique system was very prominent. I do not recommend this program. The accommodations were not good and were too far from campus and in a terrible neighborhood known as White Chapel. I felt very unsafe coming in and out at night there as a young girl. If I knew now what I wish I known then I’d go to another program. My parents were not impressed and shocked that they had us in such a bad place.
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