So much to do and so little time.

Well it's about ten thirty at night and I'm now sitting at the centre with dripping wet hair eating a very dry muffin from a shop in the tube station. It looked like chocolate chip before I bought it but now I'm not even sure what it is. Four other girls and I went to complete a "London Walk" in Little Venice but we ended up in a rainstorm. It was pretty, but would have been much more interesting earlier in the day when the boats were up and running. Everything in London seems to shut down around seven or eight at night except for pubs and clubs. I only got a few pictures because my camera died halfway through and I didn't bring extra batteries. So right now I have about a hundred pages to read and a documentation of my London walk to finish for tomorrow. I'm planning on going to Borrough Market tomorrow morning and maybe the Tate Museum so I need to get that done tonight. I will post the write up for my walks here though so that should count for something. Here's a brief recap for now:

Yesterday I spent about half the day in orientation meetings for the program, classes and church assignments and spent the other half touring Westminster (which I will document in the following post). Today I had my first European Studies and English lit classes which should be interesting but far more time consuming than I would like. Although my lit class seems like it might just be a repeat of the survey courses I just completed. But I suppose studying the works in a cultural setting will be a different experience. After the classes the entire group trekked to the London Museum and St. Paul's Cathedral. I would post pictures but I just put them all on facebook so that seems kind of redundant. I will post this one that I didn't take of us at a huge flower shop near the centre.



And that's all for tonight! Although stay tuned for the following post. And I apologize in advance for the formal tone.

Just Touched Down in Londontown.

So after 20+ hours of travel time I am now laying on my bottom bunk in 27 Palace Court. I'm running on about five hours of sleep from the night before I left home. I slept about an hour on the first flight and maybe only twenty minutes on the second. Getting here went fairly smoothly overall though. The group I was traveling with decided to be adventurous and take the tube from Heathrow which ended up being quite an adventure. I have blisters from lugging my 70+ pound luggage up multiple flights of stairs and we got lost for forty-five trying to find the centre but after asking about five people directions and a prayer we finally found it. After getting unpacked we spent about an hour wandering the neighborhoods and then came back for devotional and dinner. After dinner we headed over to boots and then wandered around H&M. Some of the group took the tube to big ben but the rest of us decided to come back and call it a night. I'm thinking of showering, doing at least some of the polisci reading I didn't do on the plane and trying to fall asleep. I kind of feel like this is some type of efy or urban girls camp but I guess that will change once classes start. Tomorrow is mostly an orientation day from what I've heard. We have breakfast at 8:30 and then several "meetings." So I guess we'll see how that goes. Hopefully I can take some pictures and get those uploaded soon. I already felt like enough of a tourist today that I didn't bother taking any.

So....

I decided to justify my endless blog-stalking by creating a public blog of my own. Everything about this page is still under construction. Especially the title (I couldn't think of anything more creative at the moment but I'm open to suggestions). For now this will serve as a journal for my impending London adventures. But perhaps it will evolve into something else? We'll see. No promises.