[Day 26] Breakfast for Dinner

Last night I went out with Kate, Anna and Kate's friend that's visiting for the week, Ellie. We ended up at Sammie's flat because we were originally going to go to a Tube-themed party in a flat upstairs from Sammie, but we walked in and everyone was out of control and people were smoking in the kitchen so we left. The housing people are really strict here, if you smoke inside you get kicked out of housing. So we had a pretty chill night hanging out there with Sammie and her flatmates.

Today I went grocery shopping with Sammie and Anna. Instead of going to Sainsbury's (really far away) or Budgens (kind of expensive), we walked east on Mile End Rd opposite of the way we usually go. We went to Tesco Express and I bought cereal, milk, butter, bagels, cream cheese, chicken, salami, orange juice and quesadillas. I came back to my room to do some homework for a while and then I went for a run along the canal.

It was pretty cold out today actually, I had to wear a long sleeve shirt when I ran. I'm not sure how far I ran but it was farther than the other day. There were also so many bikes along the canal. Everyone here rides bikes, it's crazy. After my run I ate dinner with Sammie and Laura (Sammie's flatmate). It was some kind of British chicken pie or whatever but it was good.

I came back to my room and Ellie and Kate had decided to make breakfast for dinner. Of course I had to join, I love breakfast. Ellie basically made everything for us so I just helped do the dishes after. She made me scrambled eggs, home fries and toast. It was so yummy! I should eat two dinners more often.


I was supposed to have an interview today with my volunteering program to schedule when I'm going to volunteer, but they canceled it again. I think I'm going to try to get them to lower the required amount of hours but we'll see.

Today my mom showed me my article that I wrote for my local paper, The Valley Mirror. There was a big picture of me in front of Big Ben and a two and a half column article. It was cool to see my work in a different paper besides the usual Villanovan.

I was reading The London Student, which is the University of London's newspaper, and there was an article called "Student start late as visas are delayed." The author, Yihan Goh, basically explained that bigger countries like the US and China are sending countless Tier 4 visa applications and there are like too many for the British Consulate to deal with so a lot of students got to university late and some people even got denied. Good thing I got mine on time, that's insane.


I have an essay outline and a poetry response due next week so I think I'm going to go work on that.

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