Happy December, IES Abroad blog readers! I can’t believe that I am approaching the last two weeks of my study abroad journey in London. Study abroad has flown by so fast; I feel like I have lived a hundred different lives this semester. Over the course of the past three months, I traveled to nearly ten different countries and all over the United Kingdom. Nearly every weekend, I am in a different country or city, experiencing the world from another perspective. Don’t worry - I will write about them in future blog posts.

 Being abroad during the holiday season is difficult. It is difficult watching your friends and family back home celebrate something you grew up doing, but now you are unable to and you are having to watch through a phone screen. Luckily, I was able to ease some of this homesickness as my family flew to come see me. This was something that I had been looking forward to for the past few weeks. We traveled all throughout Spain exploring new places and the “touristic” spots that I haven't yet been to.