So I woke up yesterday at 1 PM, having slept for 15 hours and woken up still entirely exhausted. Jetlag will do that to you, I guess. Figured out the "tube" or "underground" with my roommate Laura and suitemate Tanya, then went to Camden Market. It was so fun and busy and cute and British! Lots of food stands, big on Indian, Mexican, and West African(!), all served from these enormous vats just laid out on a table. I've never seen anything like it in the States. And it seems there's a huge punk-rock scene in London, so there were blocks and blocks of stores that were essentially Hot Topic, places that sold voodoo dolls on giant billboards...really crazy. And a guy selling "pots" of candy and tea made fun of me for saying "caramel" and "totally" (as opposed to "toffee" and...I'm not sure what?) Impressing the natives already...
Then at night I met up with all the other people in my program (there are only 8 of us) at the boys' flat down the street. Their place is insane--the common room has this dome roof with curtains hanging all around and green chaise lounges and little round porthole windows. It looks like some Turkish sultan's chamber. We went to a club called Aquamarine, which actually had a pool inside. Young British people are really out there fashion-wise--I have never seen so many mohawks in one place. I was fairly dead on my feet at this point, so it was all a bit of a blur, but definitely an experience.
Not sure what's up for today yet. Classes start tomorrow, which should give some more structure to the days.
If anyone has a spare moment in the day, e-mail me! I love e-mails; they make me smile :).
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!!!!!! :( I'm lonely..
So i'm trying to see the time difference and I think.. if it's 11 AM (Sunday jan 13) here, it is 4 PM (Sunday jan 13) right? Hope I'm getting this right.. I gotta keep tabs on my roomie ;)
MOHAWKS!
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