Who would have known it to be so difficult to say goodbye to people after meeting them 2 weeks ago? Tonight was amazing! The baseball game was fabulous “LETS GO DODGERS, LETS GO!” I never want to leave this place after the baseball game there were fireworks and that is when it suddenly hit us, […]
Safe to say, everyone was grumpy this morning when we all were woken up by the fire alarm at 5am, which had a voice over telling us “to evacuate the building immediately” – meanwhile whilst everyone was panicking I was calm and collective unlike many of the others who were terrified. Lyndsey obviously still fast […]
Struggling with these late nights, definitely worth it though. Today we visited Disneyland where we were all in our groups for a team building activity and then we had all afternoon and all evening together, going on rides. Also watching the light show which was spectacular the fireworks were immense! However, I did have a […]
It’s ridiculously late, so just a quick one with lots of photographs! Had a fabulous day, some of the rollercoasters weren’t as adventurous as the other ones at Knotts Berry Farm, but I had a fabulous day. We even recruited another IPA member (in the photograph)! Ready for the day ahead tomorrow, best get some […]
Wow, I can not honestly do this place justice it is just insane! I never want to come home!! We saw some amazing shifts throughout Los Angeles; although, our tour guide was incredibly bland. Here are the photographs from today, I honestly can not do this incredible place justice with words. This evening we intend […]
Today we visited th California Science Center, and also the natural History Museum, the bus rides were very long and very warm. We were all so bless by the air conditioning! When we visited the Science Center we saw the space shuttle, Endeavour. Which was can I just say was mahooosive! We then visited the […]
As you have all probably already picked up on the great black cloud, no rainfall. In fact that is currently what Los Angeles needs, and a lot of it due to the cloud being created by a forest fire, over the valley which is causing a lot of smoke across the sea. Sorry to disappoint […]
Only going to be a short blog post today, sorry! Super tired! 2nd theme park, insane rollercoasters, and fabulous time with my amazing friends. But I now have a stupid tan line… Wait till you see the rollercoasters I went on, my dad will be so impressed! Going to sleep, night! Feel about […]
After we had stopped off for some lunch at a Chinese buffet in China Town, we headed on to LAPD Air Support. Inspirational? Could be the word. We learnt a lot about the officers, equipment and helicopters they had there. We visited the helipad, after climbing up what seemed like 12692 stairs in the heat, […]
After being sat on the sweaty bus for 25 minutes, we finally arrived at the Museum. Strolled around as we were the first in the museum, we created a band between ourselves and created some music. Very amusing. After this we all sat cooling down near the gift shop, and waited for our next stop.. Me […]
I honestly don’t even know how to describe this.. breath taking and jaw dropping experience. Everyone was laughing and smiling, apart from a couple of people who were afraid of heights and really didn’t want to take part; however, I worked my magic made them fully aware of how save it was (I actually think […]
Today, well I found it quite relaxing and chilled out. Enjoyed the air conditioning through the museums and the film we watched at La Brea Tar Pits. At the Petersen Automotive museum, the cars were beautiful, and very factual. We snacked there and then travelled on to the Tar Pits. Walking.. Everyone complaining because of […]
Today was the first theme park!! Which was in Santa Clarita, in the valley (pushing 39′) it was far too warm. Luckily when queuing for the rides, many were in the shade and had water pumps. We were astounded when we went to buy a drink from a vending machine whilst in line for our […]
So today, we visited the Ronald Reagan library, this is also the burial place of him & his wife. It was extremely warm, and we walked around the gardens in which the museum was situated in. After this we travelled on the ‘big blue bus’ for one hour to Six Flags… […]
So today was the first official day, if I’m to count on this day for the rest of the trip I can say that it is going to be amazing! Firstly, we went to Huntington Beach PD, where we received a tour around the department, where we could see dispatch, the offices, rooms full of […]
This was our first meal we all had together which wasn’t at UCLA, but we ate whilst watching a Medieval reenactment so we couldn’t really chat and speak to each other until afterwards when we were going to get on the bus back to UCLA and everyone had to get off the bus to be […]
Wow. I can’t believe how much we are going to get up to whilst we are here, all of this in 2 weeks, I will definitely be sleeping for the following 2 weeks of this trip! Roll on our IYG adventure! After orientation today, one of the UCLA police officers came in to speak to […]
When arriving at UCLA and realising how large the campus was and how much information I was going to have to absorb, it kicked in. I am in LOS ANGELES! I never thought I would get this opportunity, and I have the best room mates ever!! Courtney from Kent, England & Rachael from New Zealand. […]
So the journey begins, feeling kind of nervous but the excitement is definitely over riding my nerves.. My nerves were certainly calmed when I met this lovely lady on the aeroplane who was from Los Angeles, and worked at Disneyland! I thought I would be able to sleep on the plane after the sleepless night […]