Days 5, 6, and 7: I have no creative title

Monday:

My bed and the window and desk

So those cheap little cell phones we got really enjoy sending us texts at 6:52 in the morning. Lovely sound to wake up to... But not really. Oh well, I guess it gave us a bit more time to get ready for the first day of classes: Modern History of the Middle East, Organizational Behavior, and Intro to Art and Architecture for me. Woohoo! History gifted us with a booming-voiced, slightly ruddy Irish professor. It seems like a really interesting class. Organizational Behavior is going to be a very hands-on class with a ton of work. Monday morning = need for caffeine. After my second class, most of our group accumulated in the kitchen and we all made/ate lunch together, which was kind of awesome. Living in a house with 40 other kids is really making my life right now. Especially our group- they're pretty fantastic. Anyhow, lunch was followed by a bit of relaxation before my 3 hour Fine Arts class, which is both lecture and museum visits, and then a direct jump into group dinner at My Old Dutch, where I got this awesomely massive crepe/pancake thing with bacon and ham and mushroom and peppers and corn. It was delightful. I love all the random food places we've hit up. Wagamama the first night, some chicken place, Italian, oriental cuisine- and we've go so many more interesting meals to come! Bring it on! I love food.

Tuesday: 

Our amazing kitchen! 

Well, I got to sleep in today, which was absolutely lovely, especially considering I could barely keep my eyes open during classes yesterday. I have to say, my schedule is kind of awesome. 3 classes on both Monday and Wednesday, and equestrian and a museum visit on Tuesday? Fan-freaking-tastic. So, today began with an equestrian meeting, and can I please say that I am absolutely psyched to be riding horses again? -especially after two years! Brilliant. Convocation came after this, another run around the city for some essentials followed, and then a museum visit to The National Gallery, before a quick run to the market and another group dinner at Pizza Express (I got calamari, just because I enjoy nonconformity. but not really... Sauce is just nasty). After dinner? Some girly gossip in our room to the cadence of light rain as a prelude for reading for class. About 5 minutes into my reading for Organizational Behavior, I realized there is no way I can read such a dry book on groups and leadership. I'm sorry, I tried. I'm dropping it, picking up gym's singular credit and satisfying myself with the minimum 12 units this semester. Why? Because I want to. And can. And I'm in London, so why not? Anyhow, after this brilliant realization of my slacking skills on night one, I satisfied my mind's yearning for something other than the dry pages of a musty, pre-high-lighted book and watched the Trueblood finale with Kalie! Much better. Now "group leadership" has been replaced with vampire porn. Should I be proud of this factor? Probably not, but that show wins. Life kind of wins right now. How did I get so lucky? Thank you Mom and Dad for making this happen- this is going to be the best year of my life.

Wednesday: 

Running back from the bus to our house...

Early morning again. Ugh. Too bad Kalie and I slept through our alarm. Good thing was, I woke up and we made it to History on time. By the way- that teacher is awesome. Seriously. An Irish professor? And his language makes the class hilarious. Of course, the class content itself is also really interesting, so I'm excited for the progression of the course. Much to my delight, I was able to drop my academic class and pick up PE (along with equestrian), so I am now being the biggest slacker that I have ever been. And kind of proud of it. So my class schedule now? Monday I've got History and Fine Arts, Tuesday I have a museum visit, Wednesday I have History and Humanities, and Thursday I have equestrian.

The girls!

And then PE/gym on a [hopefully] consistent basis. Awesome. So my first class today wasfollowed by a long break in which I made myself a sandwich in our kitchen (wow, don't I feel like a woman), turned in my gym forms, did a food run, and then hit up my Humanities class before group dinner at Beirut Express, a Lebanese restaurant. Can I say that Humanities is awesome? Seriously- the teacher is such a badass (excuse my French?). But really, I feel like this is going to be one of those classes you can't get through without laughing. Anyhow, such was followed by "Wankerless Wednesday" aka Girl's Night out. We finally got to hit up The Courts, a place where you purchase a yellow card and get major discounts (of course, that is if we don't flirt it up with the male population gracing the place). But yeah, The Courts proved quite entertaining, and then we hit up some other bar for birthday tequila shots for our friend Cameron. And then... well then the Tube was closed so we had to find the 10 bus, which took about 500 hours. Literarily. We could not figure out why it was ignoring us. Apparently you have to throw your hand in the air and flag it down. So after about 45 minutes of wandering from station to station, we grabbed our bus (Kalie and I were suffering from major peegret) and made it home! Home has never been so amazing. And now we're ready for the weekend!