Nightlife in London is an incredible thing with something for everyone. In the UK, happy hour can frequently turn into a night out at the pub, moving from place to place until most neighborhood pubs 11 p.m. licenses stop them from selling any more alcohol. Of course, you can always find another place open a bit later if you don't mind missing that last tube train. 

Besides Big Ben or the Tower of London, one thing that every tourist has on their to-do list is to visit at least one of London's markets. The well-known ones are filled with tourists and yet still hold enough appeal that the locals shop there too. Others are small affairs on just one day a week, dependent just on the business of the locals. 

Working abroad is something unique that few people get a chance to experience. Living and working in a brand new country offers so many amazing opportunities, adapting to new social norms, office culture, and (not in my case) maybe a new language. Yet despite the extra cups of tea, the happy hour pints, or that dry wit and humour with a u, interning in London this summer has taught me some useful tips that apply to any internship, whether across the Atlantic or in Hometown, USA. 

With less than 3 weeks left of my time in London, my entries on my actually internship have been kind of lacking. I have a tendency to want to write about London the city, rather than the whole reason I came on this program... the internship! So to recap, I'm working at a digital marketing agency called Head London. They're this really cool agency that basically helps other companies revamp their websites to be more user friendly or just look nicer in general. They've won a whole host of awards, so being able to intern there was definitely an intimidatingly exciting opportunity.

It's been a pretty crazy couple of weeks here in London, which caused a backlog of blog postings, so I apologize. 

A week into life in London has flown by, and at the same time, my arrival seems like ages ago. No matter how long it feels, these past few days have been packed with a city tour, Global Skills Training, my first few days at work, getting lost, finding my way home again, and of course, the World Cup. 

In the past few weeks, more and more people have asked me how excited I am to leaving for London in the next few days. I've booked my flight, prepared my visa applications, and interviewed for the position via a grainy and stilted Skype interview. Nonetheless, until today it hadn't sunk in that in days I would be across the Atlantic. So tomorrow, I leave on a 9 hour flight across the country and ocean to a city that I've never been to. (Full disclosure: I have been on a bus that drove me from Heathrow to Gatwick Airport, but I don't think that should really count as a true visit.)