Country to country, even city to city, the same behavior or word phrase can be considered on a scale normal to extremely offensive. There are some faux pas when it comes to a few of these expressions in London. People often say, “but we speak the same language!” but all of the words we share…

In our pre-departure orientation just before beginning my program here, one of our guides mentioned, much to my surprise, that London is often where study abroad students experience the most culture shock. This is because we don’t expect British culture to be too different from our own – America was originally a British colony, after…

Hello there, world! My name is Kelci Allmann, I am a junior at the University of Pittsburgh double majoring in Accounting and Supply Chain Management in the College of Business Administration, and minoring in Sociology. I am originally from the suburbs just north of Philadelphia, where I grew up in the town of Yardley. I have…