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Guess where we went last week! 🤔

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Hopefully after a visit to these world-famous botanical gardens students have more of an understanding of conservation and the impact of 19th century ‘plant hunting’. We went into the two HUGE glasshouses, visited the grand pagoda, climbed a gazillion steps up to the treetop walkway, and checked out some cool art installions. Even without all the myriad things to do, it’s just great to take a break from the city and get a bit of fresh oxygenated air - thanks trees, you’re the best! 💚👍

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Phew! We squeezed A LOT into our Manchester trip w

Phew! We squeezed A LOT into our Manchester trip with the politics students! 🌪

Politics teacher @andrewwhiteheadbbc read some lines from ‘the Masque of Anarchy’ by Percy Bysshe Shelley at the site of the 1819 Peterloo Massacre before heading to the People’s History Museum to learn about the story of democracy in the U.K.; then a (longer than anticipated!) walk to the beautiful @mcrjewishmuseum followed by some very moving lockdown art work by members of the public at Grayson Perry’s Art Club exhibition @mcrartgallery - then we had a well-earned nap on the train home! 😴

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Mary’s face after a 10-hour volunteer shift at h

Mary’s face after a 10-hour volunteer shift at her local vaccine centre a few weeks ago! 🤪🥱😆

Mary volunteered some evenings and weekends as she was keen to be a tiny cog in the huge machine that is the U.K.’s vaccine roll out. To date nearly 90% of the U.K. population has had their first dose, which is pretty phenomenal!

Our pre-freshers are making the most of the glorio

Our pre-freshers are making the most of the glorious London weather! Today the theatre class had a guided tour of Shakespeare’s Globe (after seeing a performance of Twelfth Night there a couple of days before). It’s such a cool place, both as a historical attraction and a 21st century working theatre.

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Can you tell Amanda and Mary have been up since 5a

Can you tell Amanda and Mary have been up since 5am and had a lot of coffee? 😆 😵‍💫 Hopefully the last time they have to collect the students’ day 5 covid tests and transport them across the city to the lab 🤞 (IKEA bags are so versatile!) All students are now out of quarantine and ready to explore London 🥳

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Here are some of our newcomers looking pretty happ

Here are some of our newcomers looking pretty happy to be checking into their Islington apartments at the weekend! Thanks to the amazing Yogi from @angloeducationalservices for the pics!

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Many of our local faculty are ‘jobbing’ academ

Many of our local faculty are ‘jobbing’ academics, and our history professor Dr Katy Layton-Jones is no exception. As well as being an excellent university teacher she is also a highly regarded cultural historian and regularly features on tv and radio. This is her latest work: a short film about why we are obsessed with ghost towns! Check it out on the BBC website!

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As we wish our wonderful journalism students a fon

As we wish our wonderful journalism students a fond farewell, we prepare to say “welcome to london!” to our new politics and pre-freshman groups. It’s a bit of a rollercoaster at the moment to say the least but we love having so many students come on our programmes - it’s what we do!

[NB. these students didn’t take a Thames river boat back to the US 😆]

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Cheers! A great way to finish a day trip to Bright

Cheers! A great way to finish a day trip to Brighton! There’s always a lot of ‘programme stuff’ on on our excursions (obvs), but there’s always free time for students to explore on their own. In this case our journalism group stayed on into the evening and took in the sights and sounds of Brighton at night - looks like they had a great time!

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It might sound like a hair-brained idea to ride w

It might sound like a hair-brained idea to ride what looks like a rotating hermetically-sealed greenhouse during a heatwave, but the London Eye has AIR CONDITIONING (not that common in the U.K.!) Here are some of our journalism students keeping cool and admiring the view during their afternoon off!

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Think this photo set-up is becoming a tradition! O

Think this photo set-up is becoming a tradition! Our new journalism students throwing their O next to the Wellington Arch (and the very apt Nike statue!) during Mary’s ‘Posh Piccadilly walk’. We started at Piccadilly Circus, walked down Piccadilly itself taking in the fancy schmancy sights, swinging a left at Hyde Park Corner, past Buckingham Palace and ending up at Trafalgar Square and the National Gallery! Phew!

No matter what you’re majoring in, you can’t escape London history. It’s much more important and interesting than ‘a bunch of old stuff’; it has shaped the world we live in today and our walking tours aim to provoke opinion and generate discussion, which are key in any subject. (And let’s be fair, it’s kinda fun to take a selfie outside the actual Buckingham Palace!)

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Nothing to see here, just a hundred elephants stam

Nothing to see here, just a hundred elephants stamping through Green Park as we’re on our way to the office! 😆

One of the UK’s biggest outdoor exhibitions, ‘Coexistence’ comprises a total of 8 herds distributed between various royal parks in London. Made by indigenous communities in Tamil Nadu, the full-sized hollow wooden pachyderms are ‘walking’ through the parks to help better educate the public on elephants and biodiversity. They’ll be sticking around for 6 weeks before moving on to another U.K. location so catch them while you can!

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Oh we do like to be beside the seaside, oh we do l

Oh we do like to be beside the seaside, oh we do like to be beside the seeeeeea! ⛱😎 (Google it; it’s a catchy tune!)

As much as we love London, sometimes you need to escape to the coast and stare at a vast expanse of water (in this case the English Channel!). Brighton is well worth a visit, especially if our literature professor and local resident Susie is showing you round! A couple of weeks back we had a tour of local street art, the cool and quirky shops of the lanes, and the medieval fishing village before heading into the ridiculously ostentatious pleasure palace of king George IV, Brighton Pavilion. And of course we had fish and chips on the beach and an ice cream on the pier, keeping our beady eyes on those sneaky (and greedy) herring gulls! 🍦🐟🍟

Fun fact: dipping your toes or wading in shallow water (as in the first picture) is called ‘paddling’ in the U.K., which the students thought was very cute! 😆

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Just to prove our programmes are not all fun and g

Just to prove our programmes are not all fun and games, here is a totally-not-posed-at-all business class in action! (Anyone else think prof Graham looks like he’s very British-ly holding up a stagecoach? 😆)

This is a class from our recent Psychology and Business programme, ‘Global, Legal and Social Environment of Business’. Students could take 3 or 4 courses, which means 9-12 hours in the classroom per week, plus course readings and assignments in their own time, and timetabled co-curricular site visits.

You’ll notice the face coverings, hazard tape, open windows and distanced seating: all part of our continuing dedication to keeping everyone in the building safe.

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Last week director Amanda rendered assistant direc

Last week director Amanda rendered assistant director Mary (almost) speechless by reminding her she had been working for GEO London for TEN YEARS and presenting her with an engraved plaque!

Mary was surprised and delighted and explained to the assembled students and faculty that ten years has flown by because every programme and group of students is unique, so it’s impossible to get bored!

In case it’s not obvious, Amanda and Mary love their jobs, especially facilitating the often life-changing and transformative opportunities afforded by students living and studying in a different country through study abroad. They also get to share their academic passions and love for the best city in the world (that’s London btw)!

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Thank you British weather for a bit of a soggy end

Thank you British weather for a bit of a soggy end to such a bright and sunny programme! 😆

Yesterday we took a 2-hour Thames river cruise to say farewell to our plucky group of pandemic pioneers/guineapigs! We knew we could run a programme safely (so many risk assessments!), but were understandably rather trepidatious about it! We are delighted to say it went even better than we could have hoped for and much of that is down to a wonderful bunch of students and our amazing faculty. Thank you all for helping us make this happen and paving the way for lots more programmes and student opportunities in 2021.

Speaking of which: we are really excited to meet another group in just over a week! Study abroad is definitely back and we are DELIGHTED! 🥳

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Some fab student photos from @sixthemusical in Lon

Some fab student photos from @sixthemusical in London’s glittering West End! It was AMAZING and we hope to book more tickets for forthcoming programmes before it sells out! 👸👸👸👸👸👸

Even if you’re not taking a theatre class, you’ll get to see at least one live performance as part of your chosen programme 👌🎭

(Usually phones/filming are not allowed as it distracts the performers, but this finale was much more like a music gig and the audience was encouraged to join in! Also, till further restrictions are lifted in the U.K. all theatre performances are socially distanced, hence the empty seats and really good sight line!)

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Meanwhile in Oregon our virtual interns are wrappi

Meanwhile in Oregon our virtual interns are wrapping up their spring quarter international internships. Here’s @geo.london Director Amanda checking in with Serenity over Zoom. Serenity interned with Make Happy, a creative facilitation and innovation consultancy based in London. She spent the quarter assisting with workshops, research, copywriting, and developing marketing content, all while taking classes at UO. We’ve loved the opportunity to bring remote global experiences to students and help them develop their global connections! 🌍 🌎 🌏 Check out the main @geoabroad site for more info.

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History is everywhere, even when you’re studying

History is everywhere, even when you’re studying psychology! We do post an awful lot about history, but it’s not because we’re nostalgic or love the past! Perhaps quite the contrary…

Last week the psychopathology class went to the Museum of the Mind in south London. It is dedicated to the history of Bethlem Royal Hospital, founded in the 13th century as a London asylum and now a modern psychiatric facility. The museum also features artwork by current or former patients, as well as a pair of statues from the 17th century site’s entrance called ‘Raving and Melancholy Madness’.

While museums and other historical places of interest are often fun to visit, it’s important to keep in mind that past centuries were pretty awful for the average person and even worse for those who were vulnerable. Places like this demonstrate how far society has come and encourages us to keep learning from the past as we move forward!

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A visit to the Tower of London is a must as it mir

A visit to the Tower of London is a must as it mirrors the history of the city itself from a Roman settlement in AD43, through centuries of royal and military shenanigans, right up to the present day. We saw the Crown Jewels, Anne Boleyn’s grave (and execution site! 😬), Traitors Gate, the Bloody Tower, the White Tower, the battlements, the yeoman warders (aka beefeaters) and of course the famous resident ravens! We even had time for an ice cream (we’re having a heatwave in London, honest!) 🍦☀️

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