Follow me on my journey to London as I study abroad this fall. In "A Long December" Counting Crows describes "the feeling that it's all a lot of oysters, but no pearls." I've had enough oysters and it's now my goal to get more pearls.

Thursday, October 21, 2010

[Day 34] Agua

It's nighttime so I'm just going to write this as if it were still Wednesday. I didn't have class today but I had a lot of work to do. Kate made scrambled eggs for the two of us and I made us toast. I went to the library in the morning to proof read and submit my Poetry essay that was due at 4:30. I was trying to figure out how to submit it and I got really dizzy and sick and couldn't feel my fingers...I like almost fainted, seriously. I've never felt like that before. I was so confused what to do because I was afraid I wasn't going to be able to walk back to my room. Anyway I signed off the computer and walked back to my room. It was absolutely freezing outside today, so that was really annoying.

When I got back I like collapsed onto my bed and napped for an hour and a half. Later I discovered that I was probably dehydrated or something. I don't drink enough water here I already knew that, but I didn't think that would happen. I feel like at home I'm always drinking water but here it's just so inconvenient to find water. After I woke up and felt better I went back to the library and submitted my essay. It was really hard to figure out how to do that. We have to submit a copy online and then have to fill out this weird cover sheet and submit it to the English office. Our name can't be anywhere on the paper, which is good I guess.

After that I went to the coffee shop down the street, Roaster's, to try to do homework. I got a yummy white chocolate mocha but the music in the place was really really loud so me, Anna, Kate and Sammie left to go to the coffee shop on campus, The Ground. I got all of my history outline done there. I'm writing my essay on the Jeffersonian Revolution of 1800. I love Thomas Jefferson, he's one of my favorite presidents. Therefore I love writing this essay.


Around 6 Kate and I went to Budgens to buy some chicken and then Sammie, Kate and I made dinner! We cooked chicken tikka masala. I peeled and cut the potatoes and Kate boiled them. I also cut my finger :( Kate and Sammie made rice and cooked the chicken. We kind of burned the naan but it still ended up being ok. Erin came over and ate with us too. It was such a good dinner. I'm so proud of us for making dinner all by ourselves. I'm trying to learn to cook so that I can make dinner for myself in the spring and next summer. Depending on where I live in the summer I might have to cook for myself all the time!

We sat around watching youtube videos for a while and we found this one, it's Will Smith's 9 year old daughter...crazy.



Anyway I have to go to bed. One more interesting thing, there are always ambulances and police cars buzzing around the East End. They drive soooo fast, its insane, and always in the wrong lane. I can't even describe how fast they drive and how piercing their sirens are. There must be at least four a day too. I don't know where there going or if it's just the East End that's like this, but there are so many speeding emergency vehicles all the time.

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