I have been working in London for about 3 weeks now, and although initially I didn't get the full blown culture shock that I was expecting, I do feel it trickling in every so often throughout the day. A large part of this is due to me still not 100% remembering that everything driving/walking is backwards to me.

This usually doesn't occur often, but when it does it's on my way to work via the King's Cross tube station, which is busy to understate it. This is due to it being a direct line to the main London airport, Heathrow and its connection to the King's Cross train station, yes the one with 9 3/4 for all you Harry Potter fans out there.

Besides that and a few other adjustments, I personally feel that I have been able to integrate well in London culture. I have a great group of people that I am studying abroad with, which helps me feel less homesick, I get along with my coworkers at my internship, which is the main reason I'm here in the first place, and I still find the time on the weekends to explore every 'nook and cranny' of this incredible city.

This past weekend I got the chance to explore Camden Market, a huge and sprawling outdoor market with enough food and shopping to last you all day. Think I'm exaggerating? This Central London market is home to over 1,000 shops with vendors from all over the world. Even though I was there for almost the entire afternoon, I feel like I only explored a sliver of the market. This place not only shows the diversity London offers, something that is present throughout the city.

Another phenomenon I have been lucky enough to experience here is the World Cup in Europe, which is juristically different than the World Cup experience in the states, in fact the United State team didn't even qualify this year. But England did and they even won their first game Monday, 2-1, which I got to fully experience with friends at a 'proper' English pub. Even though my friends and I couldn't see the game fully from out table, we knew exactly what was happening by everyone else's reactions. 'Ohs' were missed goals, 'Ahs' were whenever the other team scored/came close to scoring. And of course, full blown chaos whenever England scored and even more than full blown when we won.