Arrival

Day 1: January 5th, 2014

miserable.

We sat on the tarmac at JFK for over an hour and ended up leaving around 9 PM Saturday and arrived around 8 am in London. I also didn't sleep on the entire flight because there were movies...oops. When we got there, there was a luggage debacle when Ilana never got one of her suitcases and we were all dead tired from lack of sleep.

Then, after settling in our new, amazingly huge flats, we decided to get our phones up and working and that... was a failure. Wifi is so incredibly hard to find here and to set up our new sim cards, we needed wifi. I'm using my dad's old iphone and he had a passcode & forgot his password.. so i had some nice fun long waits after locking my iPhone for an hour about 3 times. Group dinner at Zizzi's pizza was fun, the 4 of us Vandy girls were the only people to order wine for dinner so apparently we're already starting to get that rep, haha. After dinner we headed to the pub for a quick drink and the hot cider was amazing.

Day 2: January 6th, 2014

Everything is so much better after sleeping!!!
We had an entire day long orientation that included a 2 hour long walking tour & all I can say is that London is amazing. The buildings are all so pretty & everything is so accessible and convenient (albeit incredibly expensive). Apparently drugs here are super cheap and groceries are incredibly expensive... so we all know what I'll be doing this semester!

The culture shock is still well underway but I'm way less homesick today than I was yesterday :)

The 4 of us underneath Rudolph right outside Covent Garden