Okay...so now that you (maybe) have had a chance to catch up with my journey here, I'll update you what's happened since we've arrived.
Saturday: We had orientation all day, so there wasn't really any opportunity to do anything fun. All the flats in our building are filled with people from our program, so it's nice to have them around. Saturday night we hung out with those people in Flat A and just got to know each other a bit better.
Sunday: I went to mass in this small church nestled between two coffee shops (approximately). We then went on a bus tour of the big London sites. It still floors me that I can hop on the tube and see some of the world's most wonderful sites
in just 5 minutes. British television is awful...and we spent Sunday night watching ones of the only bearable things on tv: Seed of Chuckie. (Note: we get 5 channels in our flat. We were watching in Flat A. The channels we get are BBC 1,2,3,4 & 5 showing such things as elephant mating and English infomercials).Yesterday: We got a tour of the University College London library where we have access and are allowed to study. Then we also took a walking tour where our guide showed us some things that Londoners know...and tourists don't. :) My roommate Kiki's birthday was yesterday and she wanted to celebrate by getting Indian food. Our tour guide told us that THE place to go in London for Indian food is Brick Lane. It took us a while to navigate our way there, but it was fun and well worth it. It was my first Indian food experience...and it was great.
Today we started classes. Getting through one of them is going to be a struggle, not only because of the subject matter (secured transactions), the professor (not the most
captivating teacher ever), and because there is so much else to do. A couple of girls from the program and I went to Westminster Abbey to evening song to hear the boys choir sing. Well, the boys choir was on vacation so we heard a different choir who were just as good. But needless to say...we'll go back.I believe that is quite enough. We're going to watch some bad TV and talk a bit. Cheerio!!
