My life is normalizing now that I've been here for a few days. We've had to take care of all of our paperwork which has made me realize how different it is to go to a huge university(there are something between 20 and 30 thousand students I believe.) Everything is really hard to find but we've been managing to get there in groups.
We had to register with the health center yesterday and its funny because they call everything "surgery." So if you have a cold and want and antibiotic you go into surgery. There's a bunch of signs up in the doctor's office that say "Please, don't eat or drink in surgery" and "Walk in surgery line starts here." It makes me really nervous to get any medical help-- I don't want them slicing into me.
My first class was this morning and it went well. Classes here are similar to those in the US except that a lot of the lectures are taught by different professors. It makes a lot of since because the professor is an expert in the field so I guess thats a good idea. Just about five minutes ago I got a Facebook invite from some of the London Neuroscience students called "Fancy a pint?" (they really do talk like that!) so I'm going to attend a pub with them tomorrow so that should be a good way to meet people.
I keep finding myself picking up a British accent and I hope no one local is actually noticing. It just always seems so much easier to just be understood by changing a couple of vowel sounds. Who knows-- maybe ill come back saying things like lift and football and trowsers.
Oh! and I went to the volleyball practice the other day and it was really fun. The team is made up of students and alumni from all London universities and they are very good. There are already three middles (the position I play) on the team who are better than I am but the practices are a really good workout so I'm going to stick with it for a while. I dont think any of them are actually from England so theres a pretty big language barrier but I can learn to work around that. Im going to go try my own universities team on Friday which is less demanding and mostly British students.
I miss you all at home a lot! Its really rainy all the time here which Im getting used to but sun sounds nice right about now. Please update me on your lives!
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it looked so sad that you didn't have any comments, so here is your first one. i love reading your blogs so keep it up. Post pictures!! Speaking of that, I mailed your camera and other things yesterday so it should get there in a week or two.
p.s. - before you go in for any surgery, please let us know. Love you tons.
Yay I figured out how to get to your blog! I had lunch with madame dorfman today and she wanted to know all about you too so I gave her the address as well hah
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