Greenwich

So my first week of classes in london is over! Having all 3 hours classes is kind of rough, but luckily all of my professors seem pretty decent, so it should be interesting!

I uploaded pictures finally, so i'll backtrack a few days to greenwich: we got there by bus, looked over the Thames:

...walked around, got a mini history lesson (which i would share but i dont remember...oops...i was really hungry during it!) anyway, then we went up to the top of the hill to the prime meridian! so of course we took the typical tourist pictures straddling the line:

they also had a bunch of major cities/countries laid out along the line to show there they were in relation to one another so dad, this one's for you:

Tomorrow is the school trip to Stonehenge, which i'm really looking forward to, as well as Salisbury, which I don't know too much about, and when i asked someone they told me it was one big steak, so i guess i'll have to wait to find out!

Next weekend is one of the "SU LOVES LONDON" weekends, where the school plans a bunch of things around London to do, so Friday we're going to Brighton Beach, Saturday I signed up for the city bike tour, and Sunday there's a boat tour to Greenwich with a tour of the Queen's house and picnic of some sort.

Travel plans are in full force! A bunch of us are doing this thing called the "Presili Venture" which is like an outdoor weekend thing in Whales, run by these people who have groups of kids stay at their house for the weekend and run all sorts of outdoor activities. There's everything from kayaking, to hiking to jumping off cliffs, so we'll see, but that's not until mid-october. I just booked my train to Paris for fall break! The plan is to do Paris for a few days, meet Arielle in Venice for a few days, and meet up with the rest of the Paris group in Madrid (who are planning on going to barcelona while hopefully i go to italy), so we'll see. I'm also planning on going to Prague w/ Bri the last weekend in September, which is somewhere i'm dying to go.

Other than that, the only other thing to mention is that everyone in my flat woke up this morning at 6 AM to the sounds of hammering and electric drills, that i could have sworn were coming from inside the walls directly into my ear, but we still haven't found the actual place of origin. all i know is that at 7 AM i woke up to maggie smacking her wall yelling 'JUST STOP IT'...which was pretty amusing when i remembered it at like 2:00 today and realized it wasn't a dream.

That's it for now! I'll leave you a picture of my attempt to 'oust' the smell of chicken schwarma/mcdonalds from our flat and replace it with glade 'fresh laundry'...(while maggie brushed her teeth)