An American Abroad

      In March of 2020, the world erupted into chaos, stock markets crashed, borders closed, and my school, the Columbus College of Art and Design, went remote for the remainder of the semester. Fear gripped the hearts of everyone, friends became distant, and relationships either grew stronger or fell apart. The words on everyone's lips? Coronavirus, also known as COVID-19.      My plans for the remainder of the year changed drastically, events that I had been planning to attend, races I had been training to run, and plans that I had made were either canceled or postponed. My internship at Radley College included.  My original start date, on the first of September, was pushed back two months, putting my start date to the first of November. What was supposed to be a six-month stay in the UK had been shortened, I just prayed that it wouldn't be canceled or pushed back even further to January of 2021. But despite the moving of my start date, COVID th...

 Alright so this is going to be the first of my stories or just funny things that happen to me while I'm in the UK that make me smile and I hope you get as much of a kick reading about it as I did experiencing it.  So this takes place my first day in London. When I get into my hotel I head straight to bed once I unpacked to take a nap because I didn't sleep very well on the flight (typical crying children on the plane). When I woke up, I stumbled to the shower, hung up the towel, and switched on the water. It was only once I was reaching for the washcloth that I realised that there was no washcloth or anything that remotely resembled a washcloth. So I had to just lather the soap and put it on by hand. After I finished getting ready, I promptly went to the front desk at the hotel and asked the employee if I could have a washcloth as there wasn't one in my room. She looked at me in a very confused glance and replied, "I'm sorry, but we don't have any." I was...

 Hello and welcome to my blog!      I'm Tymon Burghy and I've taken on the adventure of a lifetime. In the middle of a global pandemic, I've said goodbye to all of my friends and family in Ohio, and within two days of getting my visa, jumped on board a jumbo jet headed for London.      Let's jump back a couple years to get to the reason why I am currently sitting in a cafe in London. In December of 2017, I met a man named Will at an event called SHiFT in Huntsville, Alabama. I soon came to find out that Will taught design at a school called Radley College, in the UK, in talking to him more, he told me of an intern opportunity at the school for design students. There were several of the previous interns at the event and I was able to talk to them about it.  The idea of studying or interning in a foreign country has always intrigued me, I've had friends study abroad in Ireland, Greece, Italy, Japan, and many other places, and I had always dreamed th...