UrbanTheory.

So I recently (last night) returned from the UK. I took a trip with a few peers and a techer to France and England. (Britain/England/Great Britian/UK... pretty sure they're all the same country) I had a pretty awesome time. It's vastly different in Europe. I got to see probably hundreds of plants that I had never seen before and all the architecture is the old 1700s (or earlier) architecture.

It was such a great experience. I've always wanted to live outside the U.S. once I finished college and I think I've found a few possible places. ;)

My favorite part was the smaller towns of stratsbourg, Kent, and Canterbury. I adored seeing the english countryside. There's gardens and sheep and old houses with thatched roofs all over there. I would love to live in a town like that. There's a very at home feel, the people are generally pretty kind. Their accents are awesome, when you go to buy something or ask something they'll often go, 'What would you like, love?' British english is very charming.

Our tour guide was AMAZING. He works as a tour guide and works with Care highway, a non religiously based group that helps in Africa and puts all donation money into hiring locals to build shelters, and schools, and feeding children and curing the sick. Imagine this, in Kenya, there's a shelter built by this group, and we all know about the riots in Kenya last year. Well, when the people were going out to burn down many buildings, they were told by the leaders that they could burn whatever they wanted, but they could NOT burn the care highway shelter.

But back to the tourguide, he works his job directing tours so that he doen't need a salary from care highway. He knows a whole bunch of travel secrets and is really good wth getting around.

The big cities, London and Paris are SOOOO crowded, Paris more than London, but it's still pretty awesome there. I got to see so much in the 7 days there. I saw the Louvre, Versailles, Notre dame d'Paris, Westminster abbey, Anne Hathaway's (shakespeare's wife) house and Shakespeare's house, the cliffs of dover and the secret war tunnels inside them, dover castle, windsor castle, etc. SO MUCH! I wish I had time to describe it all!

However, as I haven't the time, I'll post as many of my pictures as possible instead.

For those who have redirected from my facebook/deviantart page, this is the more technical side of my journey.

You can find my more personal journey on my Deviantart (sunrikaiya.deviantart.com) or on my facebook if you're a friend.

Also, if you'd like to help care highway, which you definitely should If you plan on helping feed and school kids in Africa go to www.carehighway.org. I'll make another post some other time about the organization.

~MysticEra