{"id":7108,"date":"2016-06-10T12:58:15","date_gmt":"2016-06-10T17:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/?p=7108"},"modified":"2016-06-10T12:58:15","modified_gmt":"2016-06-10T17:58:15","slug":"this-isnt-wisconsin-anymore-or-is-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/2016\/06\/10\/this-isnt-wisconsin-anymore-or-is-it\/","title":{"rendered":"This isn&#8217;t Wisconsin anymore, or is it?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/06\/miranda20160610a.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7118\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-7118\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/06\/miranda20160610a.jpg\" alt=\"miranda20160610a\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/06\/miranda20160610a.jpg 720w, https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/06\/miranda20160610a-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;m in London, England! With more emotions than I could identify, I arrived into London listening to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HoRkntoHkIE\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Home&#8221; by Phillip Phillips<\/a>. If you don&#8217;t immediately know the song I&#8217;m referring to, my apologizes, here&#8217;s a link to it on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HoRkntoHkIE\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> so you can live a blissful life once again. I&#8217;m huge into matching music with my moods and because I was feeling nostalgic, &#8220;Home&#8221; was what I needed to move forward in a positive direction to my new life as a Londoner.<\/p>\n<p>After a bumpy eight-hour flight, I made it into London Heathrow Airport on Monday morning, 6 a.m. London time. It was an exhausting first day of traveling because I didn&#8217;t\u00a0make it to where I&#8217;m staying\u00a0until 12:30 p.m. I got an hour nap where I was completely knocked out cold and by the grace of my alarm clock and my friend Danielle I never would have woken\u00a0up and I would have caved to jet lag.<\/p>\n<p>I have a hard time sleeping at night for many reasons<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It&#8217;s light out until about 10:30 p.m.<\/li>\n<li>Without air conditioning in the UK its hotter than you know what in my room<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m sleeping on a box of springs<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>I&#8217;ve found where I belong!<br \/>\n<\/strong>In my first four days in London I have been mistaken for being a Londoner on three different occasions. Which is hilarious because everyone at home asks me where I&#8217;m from and when I tell them Central Wisconsin they look back at me in disbelief. For example, my freshman year in college\u00a0I was shopping\u00a0and the cashier asked me where I was from. I innocently assumed she could tell I was in college so I told her Wausau area\u00a0and she replied back to me, &#8220;Oh I thought you were from a foreign country or something.&#8221; It&#8217;s great to feel and look like I belong finally.<\/p>\n<p>I was also stopped by a couple who asked me for directions and I was able to successfully help them because I came from the tube station they were looking for that morning. I knew exactly how to get there. Another time I was mistaken for being a Londoner was while I was getting my Oyster Card and a older gentleman asked me for help and I had to apologetically tell him that I have no idea what I&#8217;m doing either because I&#8217;ve only been here for 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/06\/miranda201605b2.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7115\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-7115\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/06\/miranda201605b2.jpg\" alt=\"miranda201605b2\" width=\"580\" height=\"435\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/06\/miranda201605b2.jpg 960w, https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/06\/miranda201605b2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/06\/miranda201605b2-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The walking GPS<br \/>\n<\/strong>Because I don&#8217;t have my phone I&#8217;ve had to do some intense time travel and I use a map to get to where I need to go. I walk around and look like a bloody\u00a0GPS with my one map for the tube system, a map on my phone of the bus system and finally a map of the city permanently open in my hands as I walk down the street. Soon I&#8217;ll start saying, &#8220;In 500m turn left onto Godliman Street and the destination is on your right.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I seem to be making mistake after mistake as I try to become a Londoner and it&#8217;s really weighing me down giving me a huge mental obstacle\u00a0to overcome. I messed up Oyster Card, but by the grace of God this other gentleman about my age had a problem with his card as well and had to get a refund. We were told where to go to get the refund and he was saying goodbye to me before I jumped in and quickly asked him not to leave me because I&#8217;m not from here! We talked and walked together for an hour before going our own ways never ending up getting our refund. I was then\u00a0forced to learn the bus system around the city because that&#8217;s all my Oyster Card would work for.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Culture Shock<br \/>\n<\/strong>London is the perfect blend of history and modern society. I think that because it is such a modern city that that&#8217;s the reason why I don&#8217;t feel like I&#8217;m experiencing culture shock. However, the streets all curve and the same street can change names multiple times causing\u00a0you to never actually know where you are or where you&#8217;re going which is why I keep getting lost.<\/p>\n<p>The only culture shock is the language believe it or not. It&#8217;s amazing that two people speaking English still wouldn&#8217;t be able to understand each other. Some people have accents that are laid on heavy I don&#8217;t have a clue what they&#8217;re saying to me and instead I just nod my head and pretend I understood. To be honest the first accent I heard I laughed.<\/p>\n<p>Cheers from London!<br \/>\nWith Love, Miranda<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/category\/students\/miranda-r\">Miranda Resch \u201916<\/a> is a business administration-FIRE and Spanish double major at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m in London, England! With more emotions than I could identify, I arrived into London listening to &#8220;Home&#8221; by Phillip Phillips. If you don&#8217;t immediately know the song I&#8217;m referring to, my apologizes, here&#8217;s a link to it on YouTube so you can live a blissful life once again. 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