Busy Day

It's been a busy day... we hit a couple pubs last night with a few other new friends from the program - woohoo! We were back by eleven (when most pubs close here), showered up, set our alarm for 6:45 (we had to be ready to go at 8), and called it a night.
We woke to Lisa frantically saying "shit! We overslept! It's 8:05 right now!!"... so we hopped out of bed, hit our heads on the too-close bunk beds and started the day. :-)
Luckily we weren't the only ones who had problems getting out of bed - there were a couple others, so we made it to our meeting at the school (following an RA because we still get a little lost trying to find the school) just in time.

The day was mainly school "orientation." The disorganization of the program so far has been a little disappointing - but it's hard to complain when we're in London - especially in one of the richest boroughs! They explained our British Life and Culture class first - we have to write short weekly papers about ideas and themes of what we visit - but the class grade is entirely attendance and the papers, so again - not much to complain about there. From there we had a walking tour of campus - it was a stereotypical rainy London day, and the people from International Enrichment seem to find it necessary to take the most round-about ways to get from point A to point B, so it was interesting - luckily I was wearing my rain boots with my matching polka dot umbrella :-). After the tour we had a short fifteen minute version of our classes. A couple of them might be more work than I thought (8-10 page research papers - and we ALL know how much I LOVE writing papers!)... but it will be worth it.. right? :-) After that we had a break for lunch - there's a couple pubs on campus, so we found one for lunch and got panini sandwiches for 2.5 pounds - yay!! After that we met one more time as a large group to listen to some info on traveling to other countries. Sounds like the four of us will be in Wales the last weekend in January - we found an awesome deal were we can go stay in a house - with a max. of 30 people - get homecooked food - and go surfing, rock climbing, mountain biking, etc... it's gonna be a ton of fun..we're also looking at Paris for my birthday (!!!!)...we'll see... anywho, after our last meeting we did some more grocery shopping for things we forgot yesterday, and we're back in the flat now - sipping wine and getting ready to make spaghetti for dinner.. The pub crawl is REALLY happening tonight, so we're excited for that too!

And I think that brings us pretty much up-to-date.. I'm trying to post a video of our flat, but our internet keeps cutting out before it uploads completely - I'll keep trying though!!!

Love you all,
Gen