It's 4:03pm and it's already dark outside! This part of the world confuses me sometimes, but I still love it. Since we'll all be going home pretty soon, we've done a lot of reminiscing and talking about the US versus England. It'll be really great to go home, but I like it here a lot. I think everyone else is basically done with London and wants to leave now, but I don't want to. I would love to go home for Christmas break and then come back here for next semester. I think I could have gone to university here and then moved back to the States. I would never want to live here permanently though, I'm not a fan of the government. I'm not really into how things work here in terms of laws and society. That's why I don't think I could live here, but I would love to stay here for a longer period of time.
We've also been talking about what the first things we're going to eat and do when we get back to the States. I've decided the first thing I want to eat at a "restaurant" is broccoli and cheddar soup in a bread bowl from Panera. The first thing I want to eat that's real food is my mom's spaghetti. I'm also looking forward to 24 hour Sheetz, CoGo's and McDonald's because they don't have any of that here.
I'm looking forward to being able to drive again, even though I don't really enjoy driving that much (I'd rather have Caitlin drive me). I take public transportation in the States, but not for every time I go somewhere. The tube and buses are great but it's getting annoying having to rely on them when so often they're late or not working or you're worried about getting elbowed in the face by some tall businessman on his way home from work.
I'm happy that I'm coming home at Christmas. Everyone is so happy at Christmastime and my house always has that special feeling at Christmas. I haven't decided if it's because my dad is always playing Christmas music or if it's because of the plug in candles that my mom puts in the windows, but I know when I have my own house or flat I'm going to do both of those things at Christmas. It'll be really nice to see my family.
Anyway enough with that. I haven't gotten a chance to talk about the rest of the week that I didn't finish.
On Wednesday as I said I went to the British Museum with Sammie. After that I went to the library with Vijay and wrote about 1700 of 3000 words of my British asylum seeking paper. On Thursday I had Representing London and got a paper back. I got a 66 on that paper, which I think was pretty good. Later that day I looked up my grade for my Poetry paper and I got a 68 on that one. I'm so close to getting a first! I really want to get one. A 70 is a first, or the equivalent of an A, and supposedly they very very rarely give firsts. My Poetry seminar leader said that he only got two firsts in his three years as an undergrad. I still have two English papers left to turn in and one history paper, so I have a chance. I mean, at the beginning Poetry was definitely my worst and most painful class so if I can get a 68 in that...
Thursday night my flat had a Christmas flat party. First me, Anna, Kate, Sammie, Erin and Peter went to the New Globe for the woo woo challenge. A woo woo is a pitcher full of mostly juice and pop, and a little bit of vodka. We split up into teams and raced to see who could finish first. Peter and Erin won, Sammie and Anna came in second and Kate and I lost. It was really fun except we were all freezing afterward.
We came back to my flat and played Civil War for a while before Vijay, Talhah and Hannah came over. I'll have to put up pictures, but everyone dressed up in Christmas theme! It was great.
On Friday I went to Greenwich with Kate, Sammie, and Erin. They had an awesome Halloween Market but this Christmas one didn't live up to our expectations. We got food at the Phillies restaurant and bought a few things at the market before going home. After we all napped, the four of us went to On Anon in central with Talhah and Vijay. It was probably our last night out in central, but we'll see. It was pretty fun, they had good music, but there were a lot of strange people there. We took the 25 home and went to bed pretty late, therefore woke up in the middle of the day today.
I'm going to finish my Nova paper, I have 2000 words right now. Looks like I'll be up late tonight!
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