Day/Night One

Okay so I had trouble with the internet which is why I didn't post for the first day in London, so I'll just do day one and two right now.

As we landed in Heathrow yesterday, I felt as though it was lunch time. It was in fact, 7:30 in the morning by the time I got in a cab on my way to the BU building. Time has literally been rewinded five hours for us, making the days seem longer. It's been two days and I feel like it's been five. Woof.

We're all exhausted, there's so much they have planned for us we don't have time to sleep! But it's okay, the other students are great. I feel like I've known some of them for much longer than a couple of days - which is either a result of being sleep deprived or just lucky.

Yesterday (day one) we got a tour of our town. We live in possibly the most expensive part of the second most expensive city in the world (or so I'm hearing), and it shows. Everything is pristine and calm. There are fantastic little cafe's everywhere and the shopping is so high end I get broke every time I walk by the Whole Foods store. Getting a phone is wonderfully cheap however. I bought a pay as you go phone for 20 pounds, which, is a godsend because I would surely get lost and end up in Whales if I didn't have a way to contact people with brains in their heads.

For the First night out we went to a bar called The Social. There was electronic music, men whom I could not tell were gay or straight, and possibly the most complicated whiskey sour I've ever had. After 30 minutes or so, everyone seemed to realize that a bunch of Americans were invading their bar and slowly trickled out. Oh well, on to Piccadilly!

Since everything was closed we didn't stay long in Piccadilly Circus (not a real circus). However we did get a gander at the Believe It Or Not Museum... it was pretty. Yay.

The next day was an early one. We were up at 8, fire drill at 9, orientation at 9 30 (my flat was late because we got coffee, whoops), then a boat ride at 2. We took a ferry up and down the River Thames. I saw Big Ben! -"Big Ben" actually refers to the 13 ton bell inside the tower, and not the tower itself.

We also got to see the London Eye (the giant ass ferris wheel) VERY cool, and there was a bunch of other stuff along the river that was pretty groovey in a far-out kind of way (a.k.a. the foot bridge that was featured in the latest Harry Potter movie. I'm practically famous.)

THEN my flatmates and I made dinner and it was delicious but I'm still jet lagged so I must get some sleep before I walk out into the middle of the street, completely unaware of that giant red double decker bus. Oh yes, by the way, if you don't look right before looking left when you cross the street, you're likely to get plowed by a bite-size beamer. The cars may be small, but I'm convinced the drivers here haven't discovered the brake pedal yet. Every day's an adventure.