London!

Well, I'm in London! There's not much to say, really, except that I'm in London and it's being very typical--grey, a bit cold, alternating icy wind, manageable weather, and strange not-quite-raining weather, but overall alright. I'll take some pictures in a few days of my soon-to-be daily walk to school...it's a little amazing. It definitely makes me miss the Nile and my old trip to school, though. I got a phone and everything, even some towels and some bathroom cleaner to scrub my nasty ass bathroom. Oh yeah, my room is super ghetto. Actually, my whole apartment place is really sketchy. The complex as a whole is nice, I suppose, for London. It's just my tower, which gets accessed with a swipe card, is always pitch black. You go in the door, and you're faced with total darkness where there should be a stairwell. I have not taken the stairs except for once, and that was in the daytime. It's really sketchy. And my hallway is always dark.

Also, my 'apartment' is not what I expected, at all. It is a narrow, dark hallway with individual rooms and locked doors leading off it. My room very narrow, and the walkspace is as wide as the door. There's a tiny closet thing, a desk with drawers and one shelf, a small bed with a really not firm mattress, and this hilariously sketch bathroom thing. It's like a trailer bathroom at a state fair, or a bathroom in a train or airplane. It's really not nice. There is no shower curtain, and the floor is permanently sticky. I had to buy towels because we didn't get any, and I haven't washed them yet but I think I'm just going to have to use them anyway, because I need to shower! I even bought cleaning stuff and washed the bathroom floor. Ugh. This place is sort of gross. The carpet is putting the typical college dorm/apartment carpet to shame in terms of dirtiness. Oh well! At least I have a mini fridge! And the kitchen doesn't look too bad....I don't know where to keep all my food, though, or where to find pots and pans....

Ok, enough complaining about things! Tomorrow I am doing Arcadia orientation (they're the stupid school I had to come through to get here), and we're supposedly going out to dinner (I hope they pay) and going to see the Lord of the Rings.....stage show? I don't know if it is a musical or not....I'm sort of hoping it is........anyway. Lots of love from London! I miss you all!

xoxo