So, I'm just going to give you a summary of what's been happening over the past week or so, because honestly, it would be very boring if I did daily posts on how I mostly slept and popped a lot of cough drops ( Read more... )

Today was Sunday, and I ventured out to attend KCL's Sightseeing Tour of Greenwich.  Greenwich is a borough of London, about 40 minutes away from the London Eye.  It is home of the smaller version of the London Eye, the Greenwich Wheel. It is also the site of the Prime Meridian, which separates the two hemispheres; if you straddle the line, you are ( Read more... )

Today, Ali and I decided to meet up with Stephen and Elisa on Oxford Street, which is pretty much the poshest shopping area in London.  There is, however, one place that I can afford -- Primark.  Unfortunately, we made the wrong assumption that we could actually meet up in central London without any problems.  First, Ali and I got on the bus late, ( Read more... )

Today, I went to my environmental class, which was, for the most part, enjoyable.  One of the lecturers is great -- he has a great presence, and really connects with everyone in a way that has us all interested in what he has to say. The other ones are pretty lackluster.  In between my lectures, I stopped to have lunch with Ali at the Embankment ( Read more... )

Today started off terribly. I finally had my realy Spanish interview (turns out that I went to the wrong departmental interview -- the Spanish department does Hispanic Studies, while the Modern Language Centre actually teaches the language of Spanish).  Anyways, it went terribly, as my speaking skills have never been up to par with my listening, ( Read more... )

Today, at about 10:30 I was booted out of room by the maid, so she could clean. I shuffled out in my pajamas, not expecting it to take very long, and locked the door behind me.  I heard her go in a few minutes later (she had been cleaning another room up until that point.) But every time I came back to the room, the door was still propped, and I ( Read more... )

Today was Tuesday, and I had no class.  Sweet! So I woke up late, bummed around for a bit, surfed the 'net, and generally just got some time to myself, which was nice.  Elisa, Stephen, Steph, Ali, and I, plus a few others, had planned to go to the Globe Theatre to watch Midsummer's Night Dream ( Read more... )

Today was my first day of class! Exciting! I only have one class on Monday, Subjects of Desire in Medieval Literature, which will now be referred to as Medieval Lit, or MedLit.  I had lecture from 10-11, then seminar from 4-5 -- so it's basically like UNC's lecture and recitation system.  The lecture was good, the guy kind of read off his notes a ( Read more... )

It was a very lazy Sunday.  I got up around noon, and headed off to lunch.  A lot of people went home for the weekend, and a lot of people had sports meetings, so not very many people were still in the dorm.  Still, I sat down to eat with Austin, and we debated the randomness of his Physics/War Studies double major vs. my English/Spanish/ ( Read more... )

My extended family (specifically, my cousins Brian and Philip and my aunt Peg and my uncle Dan) had a Norwegian exchange student a while ago named Tore.  A few days ago he contacted me to tell me that he was going to be in London, and did I want to grab a pint? This was a bit unusual, as A) I had no idea why Tore was in London, and B) I had not ( Read more... )