Ok, so I haven't updated this in far too long. I've been too tired every night when I get home, and I've been so busy with my internship I haven't been able to process all of my thoughts. I'm going to leave this post for now though, and update either after I've organized all of my stuff, or tomorrow. If it's tomorrow there'll even be lots of new pictures (I really hope that's not a lie for once). 

Until later

Tasarion

I woke up bright and early this morning and made my way to East Croydon! 

Ok, so East Croydon isn't terribly exciting, but the people I was meeting are and the place that we were going is. We met up at the train station, and started our drive to Brighton. I think the most terrifying moments of the day happened to occur in the car while Kayleigh was driving, and I imagine my feelings were very simliar to those that Brendan and Alex have had while driving with me before. The car is reversed, steering wheel on the wrong side, the people drive on the wrong side of the road (I don't care if they think it's right, it's wrong), and the driver was insanely awesome, though a bit scary. On the way home at one point Kayleigh all of a sudden swerves out of our lane to follow another car, only realize that she was no longer driving in any lane and about to kill us all. This was after driving to Brighton during which we sped around a corner, and she yelled: 

"Oh shit! That was a curb!"

Quickly followed by:

"Well, good thing no one was standing there"

Seriously. Scary. But we made it.

The first thing we passed was this palace thing, and neither Kayleigh or Louise know what it is other than a big palace thing. 

A few more miles down the road and we arrived here:

Once we were finally out of the car we walked down the pier and looked at all the delicious looking food, the arcade (which included slots), and the rides before heading to walk down the lanes. The lanes are full of little shops ranging from punk stores to sweet shops to lego shops. Walking around took us a good amount of time. We stopped into a few punk shops, an American sweets shop, the lego store (which I wish I had gotten a picture of) and an amazing chocolate shop. We also had lunch at a place called "Red Veg". If you can't gather from the name it's a vegetarian fast food stop, so we all had veggie burgers for lunch. We ended the day walking around taking pictures of graffiti, which you an see in the photos area.

I'm back now, and completely exhausted. Tomorrow is going to be spend doing all the homework I didn't get done this weekend. It's been a very busy weekend and I'm proud of the amount we did, but we're gonna step it up next weekend and try to see more. 

Goodnight,

Tasarion

Think I'm gonna run out of firsts to title my posts as? Not sure what I'll call things when that happens. Today I woke up at 930am despite being kept up til about 6 with the drunks in my flat. Waking up Toya and Sasha we got ready and were out the door by 11 (I think this is a new record for fastest time when it involves getting other people moving too). Taking the tube we went to Notting Hill Gate and walked to the Portobello Market. It was full of everything you could imagine. People, cars, antiques, food, clothes, toys, furniture, street performers, and everything else inbetween. It was an incredibly long day, that involved going to more of the outlet stores than I would've liked, but we still saw some amazing things. I took a few pictures, but not many. I wasn't quite on my game since I was so tired. They'll be in a pull down list soon under photos. You can check on the history on the market in the links area if you're interested. 

Tomorrow I'm getting up early, going to East Croydon, getting picked up by  Kayleigh and being brought to Brighton! I'm very excited to see her and Louise again. I hope it's an easy trip. 

Goodnight,

Tasarion

Today I woke up bright and early at 11am and sat in the living room for 3 hours. Finally the group that I was hoping to go to the museums with woke up and got ready, and we headed to the Natural History Museum that's about a block from here. There was a ton of cool stuff to look at, and we actually managed to get through everything. We saw the dinosaurs which were awesome (videos at the bottom) and we saw the minerals and rocks, and we saw the jewels in the vault, and we saw the 500 million butterflies that there were in the cocoon. I don't think anyone is ever going to let me live down how terrified I was of the butterflies even though they were dead. 

I took 135 pictures today, and they're all in the photos section under the Natural History Museum. If you don't know how to get there, just hover your mouse over the "photos" link, and you'll see a drop down list. Click through there. The rest of the tabs aren't set up yet, but I'm working on it. 

Tomorrow we're going to Portobello Market at 10am, so it's time for me to start heading towards bed. But first, here's two videos of what we saw today:

I know the T-Rex is scary. I don't blame you if you had to stop watching because of terror. I reacted in a very similar way. 

Goodnight everyone,

Tasarion

This morning at 7:30am I woke up and got ready to go to my internship interview. Out of the place by 8:30, I had plenty of time to get there by 10am. Only to find out they wanted me back at noon. So after wandering around for 2 hours (I now know that area better than where I live) I went back, met Ashley (a man) and was told I had the job. No questions, just instructions on my tasks. I'll be editing music videos if I can learn Avid soon enough, and I'll be working on productions for their TV channel. They said that they'll do their best to get me into the production side of things so that's exciting. 

I'm back at home now learning about everyone else's  experience on their interviews. One person got a job offer for after their placement already at a photography company, it sounds amazing but she's a junior so I'm not sure if she's going to be able to do it. 

Tonight we're going to the theatre. I'm going to see a play called 'Blood Brothers', apparently it's a musical. Some of the other area going to see 'The 39 Steps' which is based off a Hitchcock movie and is a comedy. We weren't given choices in what to see, or who to sit next to, so we'll probably be next to strangers for the show. 

This week is going to be spent learning to use Avid and getting ready for my internship. I have a bunch of readings for class this week that I'm going to try and get out of the way tonight/tomorrow, and then Sunday I'm off to East Croydon to meet Kayleigh and Louise and they're taking me to Brighton. Should be an amazing day. 

I'm off now,

Tasarion

I added some more photos! Some are from the tour of Lodon that we went on, and the last few are from where my internship is. I need to find a way to label them. Haven't figured out how to do that on this website yet. Maybe have to just go to photobucket.

Class time

Tasarion

Classes started today. I have class at 9am on Tuesdays, and that's going to be a rough thing, especially since I don't think I like the professor much. I'm going to give her the benefit of the doubt for now and hope that it gets better since it's my travel writing class that I was really looking forward to, but something about her bothers me. The class looks like we'll be taking a few field trips around London, which should be pretty cool. 

Second class today was British Mass Media. The professor is amazing man, who talked to me about doctor who conventions and our favorite doctors in the middle of class. Turns out we're going to be taking a field trip to the BBC television studios with him, which means we'll be going past the Tardis! (Well, one of them at least). I have the same professor for a class tomorrow, and I'm really excited about that because he seems amazing. 

Tomorrow morning I'll be waking up before everyone to try and brave the Tube to find my internship. I need to know where it is for Thursday when I have my interview at 10am. 

We haven't heard from our Australian neighbors tonight. We're hoping that their families aren't being affected by the floods.

Time for working out this route to work

Tasarion

We have Australians living across from the hall. This makes things interesting :P They wandered into our flat by accident, and we ended up spending some time hanging out with them. Looks like they're pretty nice people. All 6 of them are law students, and they're here til Feb. 

I start classes tomorrow at 9am, which means that I'm heading to bed so that I can hopefully wake up on time tomorrow. I have my internship interview Thursday, I have two days of spring break planned, and I'm working on figuring out the rest. I think I may end up in Nottingham for most of it if I go anywhere.

I have some more pictures and some videos of places that I'm working on getting up. Maybe tomorrow night, maybe the night after :P

Bed now,

Tasarion

Remember last night when I said that I was gonna go exploring today? Yeah. That didn't happen.
I slept until 4, others slept until around 2 or 3 and we all did pretty much nothing. While almost everyone else is out now I'm taking some time to just chill, tomorrow we have to be up and out of here by 9 for a coach tour, and then we have a walking tour at 2. Lots of pictures will be taken hopefully. As for pictures from last night they're up on the photos page if you want to see some of the club that we were at. 

I found out today our RLS (Residence life supervisor) is a big David Tennant fan, which gives us a lot to talk about (he was Doctor Who, for almost all of you who have no idea who he is), and being able to be friendly with your RLS is always a good thing. I'm now going to go and put this amazing anti-itch stuff on my head, and go to bed. Hopefully going to The Who Store tomorrow after everything, but that may have to wait until Monday depending on how long the walking tour is. 

Goodnight

Tasarion

Today was my birthday, and our first night that we could go out since we have nothing to do tomorrow. The day consisted of orientation, internship orientation, and everyone suddenly realizing it was my birthday. So, after laying in bed for a few hours miserable because of a headache and an itchy head, they got me up, got me out, and we went to Camden. Of course we did, because we're from Philly. It was amazing. We accidentally went to a metal club, and it was so awesome. I'll have to post pictures and maybe some video tomorrow. I didn't have to pay for anything except the cover charge. My schoolmates bought me all my drinks, and the tube is free now for all of us through zones 1 and 2. 

For now it's time to go to sleep...I'm exhausted, and want to be able to get up tomorrow and go exploring. I'll tell you more tomorrow night. 

Goodnight everyone

Tasarion