Avenue Q

Last night Lindsey, Sally and I got super cheap tickets to see Avenue Q and it was AWESOME. We got there and the guy was like, "oh, this section of seats isn't open tonight" and I almost freaked out a little until he told us that because the section was closed our seats had been upgraded. SCORE. Then we got to our new and improved seats, which really really good considering we paid 12 pounds for them and the show started.

It was hilarious and very entertaining. I highly recommend you see it. But the best part was yet to come. So we're sitting there and intermission just started and who comes into the theatre? People selling these really cute tiny cartons of ice cream!!! It was basically amazing, so I went down and got my cookies & cream ice cream and thoroughly enjoyed it until intermission was over. According to Lindsey this occurs at most of the plays in London so I'm pretty excited about that, I must say.

Today I dont have class so I got to sleep in before doing some laundry and working out. Now I'm just waiting for my cloths to dry and hanging out in my room until tonight when Lindsey and I are going to Cirque Du Soleil!!

-audrey

Ready to Start School

Today was my last day of freedom before classes start. I go tomorrow at 10:00 for my first class (Cognitive Psychology) and after that at 2:00 I have Biological Basis of Behavior. Fun stuff. I spent the day running errands and buying school supplies. Afterwords me, Natalie (roommate) and Caitlin (friend) went to find our school. We got to one part of campus ok but because it is spread out over the city we needed to take the tube to another part of town. Well the tube station we needed to go to only has 2 lines that serve it and both of them were shut down this weekend for repairs. We figured we could just hop on a bus and be there no problem. PROBLEM. We defiantly took the correct bus in the WRONG direction and ended up in the projects. By the time we figured out our mistake we had to get off, change buses, get off that bus and onto ANOTHER bus and about 1 1/2 hours of riding on multiple buses we never got to the other part of campus and gave up and went home. Oh the joys of learning your surroundings. 

I have a friend Sally (A&M girl) who is in all of my Monday classes so tomorrow should be fun and we're all going out to get Mexican food for dinner, YUM! 

Im gonna give a run down of my friends that way I won't have to keep putting in paranthesis who everybody is. Here goes:

Natalie is my awesome roommate from California.

Sally is my friend from A&M, shes originally from Dallas and lives down the hall.

Next to Sally is Lindsey, goes to Clemson originally from Baltimore. Shes super cool.

Caitlin lives upstairs and goes to school in Idaho but is originally from California too and down the hall from her lives Jessica. Jess goes to school in Reno, Nevada and I love her hair (its red). 

Thats pretty much everyone I usually hang out with, they're all really nice and cool and it's too bad you don't get to know them. 

I've got a lot to do tomorrow and I still need to do my hair tonight so I can sleep in a bit in the morning.

Lots of Love,

-audrey

Cameden Market

I went to Cameden Market yesterday and it was SO cool. Every weekend this market opens and there are so many different vendors its insane! The food you can buy there is so fresh, authentic, and amazingly tasty and there are so many vintage clothing, home goods, and everything else you could imagine booths. I got a really pretty purple top at one of the vintage "shops" and enjoyed some delicious food! Afterwords I decided a nap was in order so I headed back to Nido and slept for a bit. Yesterday was my friend Sally's 20th birthday so we went out to eat Chinese food. It was super yummy.

I start class tomorrow so that should be interesting, I think today I'm going to go to campus to check out where each building is that my classes are going to be held in. Its different here, each course has a lecture that everyone goes to and then throughout the semester there are seminars that are assigned to each student that we have to go to for each class, but they aren't every week. So even though my schedule says I have 4 classes on Monday most weeks I'll just go to the 2 lectures and every so often I'll go to seminar.

I need to hunt down some school supplies and send some mail today so I'm sure I'll keep busy. Until later, GO SAINTS!

-audrey

morning

Sorry my post yesterday was literally 2 lines, i still dont have internet in my room so i was in the cafe and my computer had 1% life left when i started writing it...i guess i should check the power next time! Today is a day for shopping and exploring around London. I have to go by the apple store to find out why the internet connection on my computer isn't working with an ethernet cord so i'm sure that will be entertaining. After that I guess I'll just explor with some friends and run a few errands that need to get done. That's all for now, hopefully by tonight my computer will let me get online with an ethernet cord in my room! Its the little things in life that count, right?!

-audrey

a day on the river thames

Today my school set up a bus and boat tour of London. We drove past all of the usual tourist stops, most of which I had already seen before heading to our river boat. It was fun.

Sorry this is soooo short but my computer is about to die! More tomorrow!

-audrey

orientation.

We're still in orientation although today was much shorter. My friend Lindsey and I walked around Oxford Circus which is a really cool area with shopping and pubs. Around 6 we headed back to Nido to make dinner and hang out here for the night. My internet isn't connecting in my room for some reason and I've tried 3 ethernet cords so I'm kind of annoyed about it. Im not sure if it's my computer or the outlet in the wall but I defiantly need to get that figured out because I don't want to not have internet in my room for the next 4 months.

My mom went home today, hopefully she had a good flight. I'll miss her but I'll get to see her in a few months and we'll get to skype so I'm sure I'll survive.

Anyways were off to hang out in someones room where I wont have internet so I'm off. Havent taken too many picture the last few days so sorry but hopefully I will the rest of the week!

-audrey

Move In Day

The last few days have been pretty busy.

We went to Windsor Castle on Sunday which was really fun. It's so beautiful and if you ever get the chance to go you defiantly should.

Today I got to sleep in a bit before heading out to Nido Student Living to move in and meet my new roommate Natalie. She is such a sweetheart so that's good! After seeing our tiny room mom and I made a list of things I needed to by and we set off shopping.

After putting all of my new purchases in my room and unpacking we had our housing orientation. This was basically a big huge waste of time but it did allow us to meet some more people. Most of them seem to be from New York or California with a few guys from Wisconsin and one other girl from Texas. Afterwords a big group of us went out to a pub near school and grabbed a bite to eat and got to know each other.

I decided to stay at the hotel one last night with my Mom as tomorrow is her last night and tomorrow afternoon I have more orientation. Off to bed, goodnight!

-audrey