First Day of School Picture
Our Campus is pretty cool and our teachers are awesome. In the British Culture and Society class our teacher tries to make it really interesting. Over the next 4 weeks we will visit the Hampton Court Palace and Gardens, Oxford, Stonehenge, Bath, Parliament, Greenwich, and Southall Gurdwara. We are also required to complete two independent visits to London. Between classes we had a luncheon hosted by the University for the International Students. Total there are 130 of us - some of us are from the US but there are also others from France, Canada, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, and a few other countries I can't remember.
The food was weird but I am branching out of my very tiny picky box and trying new things:
This is part of a whole new flavor series. Tastes just like a cheeseburger complete with ketchup and mustard. Other flavors include Argentinean Steak and other very nasty non-appetizing flavors. I'm impressed at how well they got the flavors to match though.
After lunch we walked into Kingston and came back for class at 14:00 (we are having to adjust to military time). My Shakespeare teacher is awesome... very into all the cultural aspects of London. He was a teacher at UC Davis and Berkeley when he lived in California but is from Wales. He's got like 4 master's and like 2 doctorate's although you could never tell. He only wants to be known as Gregg. We're going to be studying 3 of Shakespeare's plays and he even made it clear that it was ok that I wasn't interested in Shakespeare and he would make the class as fun and painless as possible. We'll be seeing 2 plays at the Old Vic, which apparently were very expensive for him to book because London's famous always go. We're also going to see a play at the Globe. We'll even get to go on a tour of the Globe given by a cast member before it starts. The building we are in had to have been designed by a girl. Each floor is a different neon color. The ground level where we enter is pink.
After classes we walked into Kingston to take a look at some shops. We met one of my flatmates friends at the Kingston Train Station but because we've taken a bus to everything were unaware of how far we were from our flat and decided to walk along the Thames instead of taking the train. Big Mistake. 45 minutes later we finallyyyy reach Seething Wells, exhausted and hot. Our refrigerator wasn't working so maintenance just brought us one twice the size that we are very excited about. Warm milk isn't very appetizing in the morning with my Cinnamon Crunchies. We're all resting up and the boys are making us dinner before a bunch of the international students go out tonight. First Friday here, we must go out on the town and see what Kingston is all about.
Tomorrow we are planning on heading into London for the day although it's supposed to be bad weather. We want to all make the most of the time we have so early tomorrow we'll be hopping on the train to Waterloo.
We've been so busy I haven't had the time to be homesick. It's already my 3rd day and there's so much I want to do and see. This month is going to fly by so fast. I have already managed to meet people who I know I will stay in contact with after the trip. My roommates have all started saying ya'll and are upset that my accent is rubbing off on them. I told them they'll learn that it's a good thing.
Hope all is well at home! Miss everyone! I still added some pictures to the flickr account but not very many since we were in the same town as yesterday morning.
Love, April
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