Hello again!

So this week has been going by pretty fast. It's all been pretty overwhelming, it's a culture onslaught... I keep bumping into people on the sidewalk, because apparently like they drive, they also walk on the left side of the street, which I keep forgetting. You can totally tell who are Americans this way. I went to the BU welcoming party last night which was held at a club downtown. Similar to all of my other experiences so far, as soon as the horde of BU kids came into the club, the British people left. It's quite sad really, but I'm sure I'll be able to track some down eventually. We walked around a little after that, then took the tube home and decided we wanted Burger King. As the bunch of us (about 6 giggling girls) made our way up to the door, a group of British people walked by and sighed to the person next to him, "ah, good 'ole Americans..." That was embarrassing, but oh well!

I've had all of my classes so far this week. I only have two. One is a clinical psychology course to prepare me for my internship at the hospital. The professor is a sweet old man who crosses his legs like a girl when he sits, but I love him anyway. The classes are four hours long (shoot me, please), but they tend to break them up with lunch breaks and field trips. Yes, I said it, FIELD TRIPS. I feel like I'm in high school all over again, and I'm loving it... The first day of that psych class we went on a field trip to the science museum, which was pretty awesome. I'm finding it really interesting to see common history from a British perspective. They think Americans are a bunch of overweight, loud, hero-worshipping cowboys, but I'm determined to represent the country a bit better than that...

I had my other class today, which was the history of British popular culture. Basically we sat around and talked about the Beatles, the Spice Girls, and Harry Potter for four hours. As the British would say, it was quite lovely! I think I'm going to go on a tour of Kensington Palace tomorrow, which should be fun. That's where Princess Diana used to live, and it's supposed to be beautiful. Until next time,

Cheers!