Introduction.

Hello!  Welcome to my blog!  I just want to thank everyone who is reading this sentence.  Thank you for choosing to click on my blog, and thank you for staying and reading this first post.  This first post is basically going to be an introduction on who I am, what this blog is for, and why I started the blog.

Firstly, my name is Alexandria.  I’m going to give you a brief summary of myself, so you know who the person behind the blog is. 

I am currently a Nursing major at the Honors College at Western Kentucky University (WKU).  If you don’t know where the heck WKU is, it’s in a city about 45 minutes north of Nashville, TN called Bowling Green, KY.  I totally recommend choosing this university if you’re looking.  The campus is beautiful, and there are so many opportunities available to the students.  The very special opportunity I have been given is the whole purpose of this blog.

Besides planning for this opportunity and studying Nursing, I love music.  I pretty much listen to every kind of music except a few hardcore things (I don’t much care for music that screams at me. Haha!).  One of my favorite things to do from the time I could walk until now was singing, dancing, and acting.  I actually was the starring role of Belle in my high school’s production of Beauty and the Beast my senior year.  That was an amazing experience, and I cherished every moment of it mostly because my family is a HUGE Disney family.  When I was younger, we would sometimes go to Disney World in Orlando, FL twice a year!  We don’t go as often now, but when we do, it’s just as much fun as it was when I was younger.  That’s why that experience meant so much to me (there’s a video of me as Belle on YouTube if you care to see it). 

I was also born and raised in the town of my university.  So, I’ve grown up a true Hilltopper (and believe me, we are the Hilltoppers.  I ‘ll have killer calf muscles by the time I’m done with college!) ever since birth (Dad literally put a WKU shirt on me as soon as he could after I was born).  In fact, I’m watching them beat South Alabama on TV as I type.  Go Tops!  My whole heart is in this school especially this opportunity I’ve been hinting at.

On to the purpose of this blog.  My freshmen year of high school, I found out that in college you could study in a Harry Potter-like castle.  The name of it was Harlaxton, and the two words Honors College were always beside it in some way.  I automatically told myself that the only way I could go to the place I had been dreaming of since I was a little girl, was to get into the Honors College.  My sophomore year I got way more serious about actually doing this.  My junior year, I actually started making appointments with advisors at the Honors College to get my foot in the door and show them that I was super serious about this.  For the next three years, I worked super hard to get straight A’s on all my report cards, and when the time came my senior year, I had no second thoughts about applying for the Honors College.  In January of my senior year, I got my acceptance letter, and the first thought that ran through my head was that now I would finally get to go to England.

Now, I’ll tell you about the program that I am going to in the fall of 2014.  In Grantham, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom is a beautiful manor house called Harlaxton.  Just in case you’re wondering, Grantham is an hour train ride from London.  I get to go there for a whole semester.  Students typically take twelve hours of credit, and there are no classes on Fridays, so almost every weekend is a three day weekend to allow students to travel to all the wonderful places in Europe.

Lastly, now that you know a little bit about me and the program/journey I’m embarking on next fall, I can tell why I created this blog. 

I want all of those high school and college students that want to travel the world know that they can do it.  I wish that I would have had a thorough blog like this one to look at and dream that one day that was going to be me.  On this blog, I will take you every step of the way from applying to the last day of the program to post study abroad syndrome (which I feel is going to be a thing).  I want to help people at any school in any part of the country know that studying abroad can happen for anyone that wants to do it. 

I have also created a Youtube channel here that I will begin to post videos to go along with my blog posts and all of my travel vlogs from all over the UK and Europe.

It’s going to be such a fun ride, and I’m hoping that a lot of you will enjoy it!

If you have any questions about me or anything, feel free to leave a comment or email me at britishatheart14@gmail.com.  Also, all my links are on the right-hand side of this blog page, and you can visit the contact page here. Also, follow me on Bloglovin' here.  Bloglovin' is an awesome way to follow all of your favorite blogs in one easy and organized place.

Once again, thank you so much for visiting my blog!  It means a lot, and I hope you’ll stay because we will all have a good time!  I promise!

Thank you again!

Love,

Alexandria :)