More tourist-y things...

The past few days have been busy, but a ton of fun! Monday we had school orientation from about 745 to 9 in the morning. Then we split up into groups and took the tour of Imperial College, where we will all be studying. Its a pretty amazing place! It ranks second in the best school of the UK. After that we sat around the student union, had some coffee and then browsed around the bookstore. 

After that we had lunch at the student union pub. It was a great meal, although I wasnt sure what it was. There was a folded pita bread, chicken and some mexican sauce. I grabbed a side of potatoes and beans... all for 2 pounds. Nothing like cheap student food! It turned out to be my most interesting meal so far. My friends and I sat with some Germans who were studying at the school, so it was definitely interesting to talk to them about how they see Americans and what they think of us. For instance, we told them how it would never be allowed for students to be drinking pints of beer at noon in the college and they laughed at us, saying the State's drinking age law is a crime in itself. He also talked about how everyone in America seems too uptight about work. In Europe, people take as much time off as they want for holidays or just for whenever they need to relax. 

Then we had a social orientation from 2-430 at the school, where we had travel agents come and talk to us about their deals for students! Ill definitely be checking out some trips to take...

Monday night was our first International Reporting class from 6-9pm. It was interesting, I should probably be doing my homework right now for that class! All in all though, Im interested to see how British media works in comparison to our system.

Tuesday we FINALLY got to sleep in, and I did so until 11am. I feel like Im finally over my jet lag. We had some lunch at the flat and then went to the National Museum of Portraits. It was amazing. All the museums in London are free, which is good for me because I could go to them all. Hopefully sometime soon Ill go to the Tate Museum, which is all Modern Art. But anyways, after we were at the museum for a few hours, the 5 of us girls grabbed some italian, caught the tube and went to our class at 6pm. 

Today was a long day. We went to the Museum of London, which we had to go to for class. Every Wednesday our group of about 85 students goes site seeing. Next week is Stonehedge! Anyways, after that we went to the Natural History Museum and spent hours in there. I loved it because it was so interactive; it simply never got boring! 

Oh, and I still havent had any tea! I need to really get on that....