William Coulter

Greetings from the Queen!

Last week the Arsenal Gunners took on the Ipswich Town Blues.  It was a heated match at Emirates Stadium under a full moon.  There were 12 of us that went, and we posed as Arsenal fans.  We all went so far as to buy scarves and jerseys in support of our new team, the Gunners.  Some highlights include sitting in club level seats, chanting “We love Cesc Fabergas” on the tube with soccer maniacs, and watching our team pull away a 3-0 win.  Being at Emirates Stadium with 60 thousand of my closest fellow Gunners (not to mention my GLS buds) reminded me of good ole Neyland Stadium on a brisk autumn day.  For anyone going to London, look for tickets early because they can get expensive. We are die-hard Arsenal fans now.

London has become a bonding experience between us “Global Leadership Scholars”.  There is no better way to have a group of 27 ‘smarty pants’ business students bond than having them live together in London, learn a month worth of stats in a week, and take weekend trips all over Europe.  We might have ‘met’ each other in Accounting and Economics class.  We even thought that we were getting to be really good friends when we started studying together (after a pep talk about performance with Fred and Lane).  We started to truly understand each other once we hopped across the big pond.  

Packing for our semester abroad brought about images of business attire, long nights of studying, and much time spent on Skype.  I only know of two people who brought games to play.  James brought Banana-grams, a knockoff Scrabble game, and I brought a deck of cards.  So far we have played banana-grams so much it has affected our stats grade.  The deck of cards has been through so many games of go fish, spades, hearts, Euchre, o hell, President, war, BS, and solitaire that I went to Covent Market to buy a new deck already.  For all those GLS 2014 wannabes, don’t think that this program is for pocket protector nerds.  Being in London has made me and hopefully everyone else realize that we are not the average Steve Urkels.  This is one of the most fulfilling college experiences anyone can experience.  I am proud to be considered part of the GLS family.

Mind the Gap

-Will Coulter