The past few days have been really uneventful, sorry guys! It's just getting everything ready for classes and such, which is a long drawn out process and really, really annoying. It's more of find everything out yourself and not much help from professors or advisers.. Yeah, it's a mess, but I'm trying to be optimistic about it.
Like I said, Wednesday and Thursday were mostly school related days, although Thursday Jennifer and I woke up at 11 (yay!) and it was my first rainy day in London! Of course, I forgot to bring an umbrella, but I was able to go buy one at Budgen's for pretty cheap. Also on Thursday, we enjoyed looking through the Farmer's Market, which is right in the center of campus and features a lot of local vendors, kind of. They sell their meat, eggs, breads, veggies, fruits, drinks, that kind of thing, some cheap, while others are about the same price. It's convenient and nice though. I bought some sourdough bread (delicious!), eggs, lettuce, and some flowers for our flatmate Lenka, whose birthday was yesterday. She really appreciated them, and thanked us. She's a sweet girl, just a little too much party for me!
After the Farmer's Market was when I bought my umbrella, and we went to the bank for some money, and went to Sainsburys for some more food. I feel like we go so often! But it's food.. so... I guess it's okay? After that we stopped by the Blockbuster because they were having an incredible deal on movies! Preowned ones were 3 pounds each, and four for 10 pounds. I ended up buying The Office (UK version) season one, Baby Mama, Bend It Like Beckham, Dan in Real Life, and Little Miss Sunshine. Little Miss Sunshine wasn't a part of the deal, so I had to pay 3 pounds for it, but the total for all of those came out to 13 pounds! Pretty good, right? After that, I had to go print out my receipt for a book I need for one of my classes and got it from the english department. We came back to the flat, feeling accomplished. It was a really lazy day (other than Jennifer getting some school stuff done,) so we just hung around until later that evening.
Lenka turned 19 yesterday, and invited a BUNCH of people over for a celebration with lots of different drinks and stuff. We went and bought a little cake for it, and Jennifer and I mostly stayed away from it, because it got a little rowdy. They all had tickets to get into this place called the Ministry of Sound where they were having a neon rave for freshers (freshman) all over London. It wasn't something we wanted to do, so we stayed behind with Rayna. We ended up talking and just chilling out. Jennifer and I were going to watch a movie, but my laptop wasn't producing any sound.. so we just called it quits and headed to bed.
Today I woke up around 9:30-10, and started getting ready. Jennifer had a meeting/appointment thing to go to for one of her classes, and I was supposed to be ready by the time she got back. When she returned, we went out to settle a couple more things for her classes and came back to plan what we would be doing today. We were SUPPOSED to get things ready for a Harry Potter tour, but we couldn't find a place to print the instructions and it was raining again. We ventured to the Curve where they were having a poster sale, 3 for 10 pounds. I ended up getting two Beatles posters, Abbey Road and the Revolver CD cover, and a little one with John Lennon in it, a quote under him reading, "Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans." Oh John Lennon <3 We went back to the flat to drop my treasures off (and hang them up, of course,) and decided what we would do next. We had been planning on buying tickets to a Hot Hot Heat showing here in October, so we decided we might as well go out and buy them then. 20 or so minutes after a tube ride, we ended up in Camden Town, which is one of the coolest, nicest little places to find! We bought our tickets (12.50!) and set out to explore. We stopped at an Italian coffee place and ordered some hot chocolates (they had Belgian chocolate sprinkles!) and walked around, seeing what was there. I have to tell you, it's a real treasure! There are little outdoor markets and lots of places to eat! Japanese, Thai, Vietnamese, Italian, pubs, diners, you name it! It was so nice to see what the little shops offered. I ended up buying a bag that has the Beatles on it for 10 pounds! I feel like I'm spending so much, but I had to have it. A little while later, we decided it was time to head back (since it was getting to that time where the tube was going to be packed with people getting off of work and such).
Since then, I have been here calling my parents and siblings through gmail (free calling!) and talking to them for a little. It was nice to hear their voices and see what they were up to. I really miss home. I think I'm a little home-sick, but I'm sure once classes start, I'll be okay. I just ate dinner, and I think Jennifer and I are going to watch Baby Mama tonight. Hope everything is going well with everyone. I miss you guys!
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