Are we there yet? 

Only a few more days to go until I sit anxious and excited on a ten-hour plan ride to London. When I first heard about this opportunity through my peers, I had no clue I would be so lucky to be apart of it. 
My first couple years at Channel Islands have been incredible but I wasn’t smart enough in the past to grab opportunities when they presented themselves to me. By my junior year I made a promise to myself to take advantage of the many wonderful programs my school offers me. When this class was brought to my attention I wasn’t going to miss it for anything. I am so fortunate to have been selected for this course. 
In the few times our class has met together, I have learned far more than I anticipated. I never thought I would have been so fascinated with architecture yet somehow I find myself discussing lintels and cantilevers with my friends who have no clue what I’m talking about.

I have fallen in love with certain architectural styles such as Gothic and Renaissance, which is what I am most excited to see while in London. This course has not only given me a chance to explore architecture but also a chance to visit a beautiful place. I feel that in order to be knowledgeable it is extremely important to see the world. It’s easy to feel big when you tend to stay put in one place, traveling shows us how small we actually are and humbles us. 

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.” —Mark Twain