Mackenzie's London Adventure

Throughout these five weeks abroad, we went from nine perfect strangers to a family of close friends. We discovered that growing up as a global citizen stretches far beyond merely visiting foreign countries, but rather, realizing new things about yourself. Here is the video collaboration reflecting on this idea by Alexis, Sarah, and I. Overall, I am incredibly pleased with how it turned out! It brings back a lot of memories and just as effectively explains how our novels helped expand our understanding of growing up. If we had more time/resources, I would have liked to include video interviews with our classmates, to get a more personal connection. Likewise, I think more sound clips would have been good to have to integrate throughout the video. Overall, however, the cinematography came together quite nicely in my opinion, and the dialogue and visuals work very well together.

During our last week, we thought about our study abroad experience as a whole, and what it truly means to be a global citizen. Between packing to return to the States and working on our film, I began to feel bittersweet about leaving, but found comfort in the fact that I would never forget this experience and how it changed me. Our first excursion was to the Museum of London, where we explored how the working class made it's wages over time, and the disadvantages that came with it. This helped us mull over how Karim in The Buddha of Suburbia  might have faced difficult lower-middle class problems when it came to work, until he found his acting career. That evening, we went to a cat cafe to relax from the stresses of our homework! While not necessarily relating to our novel, it is interesting to note that cat cafes are 'global,' haha! Wednesday, we went to the Pink Floyd exhibition at the V&A Museum to explore the changing political climate in Lond