TIME OUT London

http://www.timeout.com/london/
Time Out London

A great place for information about things going on in London--music, shopping, movies, theatre, art exhibits, restaurants and more.  In my upcoming post -- I will give you a list of fun things to do in London--along with pictures and ideas for saving money while traveling.  Stay tuned.

PROMOTIONAL VIDEO--TAKE A LOOK

TCU Leadership London 2010      

Ready, Set, Get Packed and 

Let's Go

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdyqyFXDXG0

LEADERSHIP LONDON PROGRAM DETAILS

Website for Program Flier:  http://www.studyabroad.tcu.edu/userfiles/file/summer%20flyers/2010%20Leadership.pdf

Dates:  July 9th - July 31st 2010

Where we study: London   London is an international city like no other.  London has a commitment to diversity, sustainability and responsible development.

Where we live in London: Chelsea, London  Chelsea is near the river Thames and only minutes away from everything. Chelsea has been the residential location for artists, musicians, writers, actors, monarchs and scoundrels of all sorts.  It is a fun, beautiful and convenient location from which to explore London's major sites and attractions.

What we study:  Leadership--Interdisciplinary Approach/Social and Cultural Contexts  This is not a 'how to' be a leader type of course. You don't have to leave town to get the 7 habits of effective people lecture. This course is so much more.  It is analytical and applied and uses cases of success and failure to critically explore the many forms that leader/follower relationships may take. Further, we unflinchingly examine the consequences of various forms of leadership, short and long term. The goal is to apply the knowledge we gain from the study of leadership to our lives, actions and evaluations of leaders.

How we study:  Seminar/Discussion, Site Based Learning  Most of the 'air time' in class is for the students! While the instructors facilitate, the discussions are student driven and centered. We have class in the mornings and then go on adventures in London during the afternoons and sometimes the evenings. These adventures relate directly to our examination of leadership and leaders. London serves as the main text for the class--its rich history of leadership, invention, and social and cultural change provide the perfect setting for the study of leadership.

Cost: Program Fee is $3025.00  This includes a lot--Housing in central London for three weeks, all site visits, tours and guides associated with the program, internet access in room if you bring your laptop, course textbooks and readings!  

What is not included: your plane ticket to and from London, your meals (there are full kitchens in our housing facility if you want to economize), your passport, tuition, your own personal expenses and travel (many students hop over by train or plane to France, Holland, Scotland, Ireland or other exciting destination on two, three day weekends during the program.  Weekend travel is fairly cheap because of student travel deals offered in summer months. But, there is plenty to do for cheap or FREE in and around London if you don't want to travel on the weekends.   I will post this sort of stuff before the trip so you can plan your weekends in advance.

Financial Aid and Scholarships are available for summer programs--for more information go to: http://www.studyabroad.tcu.edu/

DATES ARE SET, READY, LET's GO TO LONDON

TCU
LEADERSHIP LONDON PROGRAM
JULY 9th - 31st 
 2010

Just a sample of the fun & educational things we do in London:

The Tube, cool Red Buses and the famous Black Cabs--the most famous and user friendly underground system in the world.  The coolest buses and there are so many--and those blast from the past black cabs! ALL Aboard to London!

Westminster Abbey--no trip to London would be complete without seeing this historic giant--see the coronation chair, graves a plenty and graves of the early kings and queens

Tower of London--Beef Eaters, The ravens and crown jewels--need I say more! Okay, I will--Queen Elizabeth I was imprisoned here as a young girl--saved by her wits!

Templar Church and Inns of Court (Legal London) We will go to the temple-- the one from the Da Vinci code--where Templar Knights are buried in the floor--watch your step. We will see what it means to be called to the bar and why their lawyers still wear wigs in court.

Shakespeare's Globe Theatre -- Experience Shakespeare the way it is meant to be! This is so dang awesome!

Abbey Road and Apple Records--yes, I will take you there and you can snap the famous pose the Beatles imprinted on our psyches--but after, we will have to go to Freud's house to clear our heads. You may initially ask what this has to do with leadership--and the answer is--interestingly as you will see, a lot!

Greenwich to the Prime Meridian--the boat ride to Greenwich is phenomenal and where else can you have one foot in the western and one in the eastern hemisphere?  Well, lots of places--but, that is the best one!

Down House--Home of Charles Darwin in Kent and this is actually where he did it--conducted his experiments and wrote Origin. This is like time travel--only without that darn time/space continuum problem.

Legal London and Temple Church--we will now know what it means to be called to the bar and we will see a Templar church with the knights buried in the floor.  -- watch your step. 

Freud Museum and Home --See the couch! Spend the afternoon getting to the bottom of psychoanalysis--in what many agree is one of the most idyllic settings.

Hindi Temple -- a honest to goodness Hindi mandir sitting smack dab in the middle of London---a great place to PEACE OUT. you won't beileve how magnificent this place is...

Hampton Court Palace--Henry did all of his sweet talking--and incarcerating wives here at the palace.  The gardens, the royal maze and royal tennis courts are stunning. 

Historic Graves--Karl Marx, Herbert Spencer, TS Eliot and more... it is a bit creepy to visit a cemetary--but, you know what, this is way off the beaten path and so unbelievably unspoiled--
you will love it.  But, again, watch your step.

British Museum--The Rosetta Stone (not the software--the
actual stone and mummies and just stuff you won't believe--and well, this museum holds the reading rooms where many great intellectuals
 of the 1800's toiled away--when they weren't at the Museum Pub across the street. 

Churchill's Cabinet War Rooms  A bunker in the middle

 of London--WWII was actually executed from these bunkers--

hidden under the streets of London.  The interactive museum is a must visit!  You won't believe how cool it is!   

Cambridge  The beauty, the history, the intellectual contributions...this place is famous for a reason (88 Nobel Laureates---can you spell DNA, Watson and Crick spelled it out here). 

AND SO MUCH MORE....(Freud, Radical London Walk, Jack the Ripper, London Eye and soaking up the flavours and culture of London--not hard to see why so many artists, intellectuals, musicians and politicos have made their lives in London)

THE COUNTDOWN HAS BEGUN

COUNTDOWN TO LL 2010

Well, it is September and believe it or not it is time to gear up for another fabulous year of TCU Leadership London. This blog is the place where I will keep those who care to read posted on important details about the upcoming trip to London with TCU students.

For more than a decade I have been taking fantabulous college students to London and we have painted the town and learned a heck of lot about leadership to boot. Some of the pictures and information posted here will reflect our bawdy and laudy times together and give those of you who will be going next year in 2010 a sense of the AWESOMENESS that is LONDON.

AND YES WE ALL BECOME ANGLOPHILES EVENTUALLY!