Week One and Two in London

After departing Paris at 11:00pm in the evening, going through UK/France border control (it was intense, drug dogs and everything) boarding a ferry and crossing over, I finally landed in London at 7:30 in the morning on September 29th.  I walked to my hotel to pick up the luggage I had left and meandered my way over to the Hampden house, my residence for the next three months.

I don't have pictures....but I'm sure I'll take some eventually.  The girls got the flat in the basement, fully furnished with four bedrooms and three and a half baths for seven girls.  The first day I used to settle in, so I didn't do too much.  It's weird because moving to London didn't feel like I was in a different country, it just felt like I was in a new city.

The next day we had lunch with the entire FSP.  I found out we actually don't have class till Thursday, which left the entire week to do whatever we wanted.

On Tuesday the FSP went to the Shakespeare Globe Theater and watched Taming of the Shrew.

On Wednesday we took a campus tour

On Thursday we had our first class

On Saturday we went to Tate Modern and the London Eye and watched the sunset

Week 2:

We had our first week of class, and our first paper due.  Yay!!!! I'm taking War in the 21st Century, The European Union, and a class about Memory, War, and Nationalism.  

On Monday I got to go to Westminster Abby for free!! I watched the evening choir and got to tour the Abby without other tourists, just a group of LSE students.  It was amazing!

On the weekend we went on a scavenger hunt...and we won tickets to Selfridges Fashion Show + goodie bag.  Yay!