It has been my dream to study abroad ever since my brother, Nikhyl, came back from studying abroad in the Netherlands three years ago. When I finally started college the following summer, I almost immediately started thinking about when and where I would go abroad. In my sophomore year, I finally settled on applying to study abroad at the University of Oxford. I was drawn to the subjects Oxford offered, as well as their tutorial-style education (which I’ll explain more about in a later blog post).

After several months of anxious waiting, on March 25, 2016, I received an email that changed my life.

Today, exactly six months after I received this email, I will (finally!) be leaving the United States for the United Kingdom, where I will be spending the next academic year.

I’ll be using this blog to chronicle my story over the next year – every photograph, trip, and memory I make along the way. I’ll also be regularly updating both my social Facebook page as well as my professional photography page, which you can find here.

Before I end this blog post, I want to say a huge thank you to everyone in my life who has helped me get to this point today. Every friend, family member, teacher, professor, mentor, and colleague – I hope to make all of you proud.

I’ll be in touch with a longer blog post once I settle into London!

Lots of love,

Tasha