Hi everyone!
Since you’ve stumbled across this blog where I will be documenting (read: rambling and posting excessive photos hoping they’ll do a better job doing the talking for me) my adventures studying abroad for the semester, I thought you should know a little about me.
My name is Vivian Li. I’m a junior at NYU, majoring in Marketing in Stern, and am going to be studying in London this fall. This is my first time in Europe and first time traveling out of the country by myself and I couldn’t be more excited! I have loved traveling with my family over the years but this will definitely be a new experience where I hope know I’ll see and learn a lot.
I am from the Bay Area in California (Nor-Cal represent!), but was originally born in China (I lived there until I was two), and am slowly migrating my life to NYC.
As far as classes go, I’ll be taking Operations Management, British Cinema, and Modern Drama in Performance. I am particularly excited about the latter two as I love film and theatre, but feel like it’s something I never have the chance to study and learn the basics about. The Modern Drama class also involves weekly outings to watch actual performances, and I feel like this is a great way to take advantage of living and studying in this city for four whole months.
Stay tuned for my next blog, where I’ll give you an update about how I’m settling in (spoiler alert: it’s great!) and also try to provide some useful tips for anyone planning to travel here. I thought I would write about my preparations as I was packing, but now that I’m here I realized I could give you some edited advice based on what I’ve already encountered (a.k.a. precautions I had so carefully considered backfiring completely) and it would be 100x more useful.
Until next time…
Cheers! (l love this expression and plan to integrate it into my vocabulary by the time I’m done here)
-Vivian
P.S. Enjoy this picture I took as I was leaving New York. Look at those fluffy clouds welcoming me into the sky and saying it’s a great day to be flying to London today
Tales from Study Abroad 