'Ello London

Greetings from London. So it is now Sunday afternoon and I got here Wednesday afternoon. That is four full days, it feels like I have been here for a month.

Wednesday
I landed at Heathrow at 1:00 pm, which if you wanted to do the math, that was 5:00 am my time. Ten hours on the plane was a hoot, especially because I didn't spend an ounce of it sleeping. I got to my apartment and met my roommates. We went on a little tour of our town and then passed out at 7:00. Yes, 7:00. But thanks to jet lag I woke up at 4:00 in the morning. Woo travelling!

Thursday
So there are six 8-person townhouses in my complex, and two of them are from my program. Six of us are from ASU, nine from Pitt, and one from Santa Cruz. The other houses have kids from a school in Indiana. They have RA's in their houses. Fun. But anyways, about 30 of us from our complex went out that night and tried to find a good bar, but failed. Ended up at a pub and just wandered London all night.

Friday
We had a tour Saturday morning, so Friday night I was looking for something kind of mellow. My roommate Skyler, and our neighbor Deanna were going to a play that night so I joined them. We saw Billy Elliot, which was very good. After that we went to a pub across the street(yes, there are as many as you would imagine). Got a pint and then took the bus home to be adventurous.

Saturday
We had a bus tour of London that took us all around the city. Although I have never felt more touristy in my life, it was great. We saw all the typical things, Buckingham Palace(Lizzy wasn't home, damn), Westminister Abbey, Big Ben, London Eye, and others. We actually saw the building they used as Gringotts from the first Harry Potter movie, and I was pretty stoked about that. Didn't get a picture though, mistake. That night we went to a couple bars and ended up meeting two of our neighbors at a sports bar to watch the Steelers game. We got there at 11:45 pm, and it was packed wall to wall. Got some pints and watched the Steelers win, so it was pretty great. Since our program is made up of about 50 Pitt people we will probably continue to go there and watch the games, and hopefully the Super Bowl.

I don't really know what I'm going to write about on here. I don't really like just listing off what I did each day, but we'll see. Maybe I'll just wait for more substantial things to happen. If you really want to know, try and grab me on Facebook chat. Good times would probably be from whenever you wake up til 4:00 California time(midnight for me).