London Calling

By Grace Carballo ‘17

Time to break out my ‘Ello Govnah playlist, which I’ve been constructing for upwards of 13 months now, because I’m about to leave for the airport to Londrés, which translates very nicely to London.

While in London, I intend to spend most of my time at Platform 9 ¾ and offering to baby-sit Charlotte and George, so Will and Kate can just relax for a little bit. It’s hard being royal, though in the words of Lorde, “we’ll never be royals” so I can’t confirm or deny this from personal experience.

However, I did have the opportunity to up my social status a little when ordering my bus ticket from the airport. They asked me to select my title and I could’ve settled for reality and opted for “Miss” or “Ms.”, but like Scott Disick, I wanted something more for myself. 

I hope there aren’t any legal consequences or documents I will need to show to my bus driver to verify this title but as of now please refer to me as Lady Grace in all formal correspondence.

In just a few short hours I will be reunited with my good pal, Alex Budde, who claims he reads my blogs so this will be the true test, and will see all his favorite sites in London, where he is currently studying with the Viterbi Program. I am cautiously optimistic that I will actually be able to find him and then my hostel and then navigate the Tube, but they speak English in London and so do I! Plus, I always keep a list of British words in my phone to use at whim so I think I’ll assimilate quite nicely. Though, I kind of want to pretend I only speak Spanish in my hostel so I can practice. Budde says that’s annoying but I think it’s commitment.

Bloody hell! I’m going to be late. Bullocks! (See how naturally this comes to me?)