O, how the tides have changed!

From:

"Hey, this is going to be awesome, no work, no classes!"

to

"Hey, I'm pretty much fucked."

in the span of two days.

Let me explain.  Thursday, History class.  I go in, and I'm actually jumping in to the second half of a year-long course.  Teacher tells me it'd probably be good to at least be familiar with the first half.  This means, hey, 250 or so pages of reading.  AWESOME.  This is in addition to all the stuff I gotta do for the class on a normal basis.

Then Friday, Economic Development, I've already got a problem set due next Thursday, and I gotta use a stats program I've never heard of before.  JOLLY GOOD.  And then, I still gotta do readings too.  Yikes.

But in other events not related to me suddenly being swamped with work before I even go to my fourth class (didn't meet last week), Tuesday I walked around Regent's Park.  Here's my favorite photo:

That rock with the inscription was strange to me, so I took a photo of it!  The snow was still around as you can figure out, which made for a not-as-fulfilling walking trip, but I was really bored enough to walk 40 minutes to a park.

But this past week has largely been nothing.  Without my other classes starting (those Thursday and Friday ones) I was left without much to do.  And I didn't really spend it outside of my dorm.  This is explainable through the handy-dandy Study Abroad guide that OIA gave me awhiles back, and it's a phenomena known as homesickness.  I think it's great here (outside of the poopy weather and dark-by-4-to-5 dealio), but man, it's weird to not really be able to talk to all my friends on a consistent basis, and my family a little less so (talk to them almost daily in some capacity).

Of course, yesterday I went out though, because as I reasoned to myself, I would be extremelyyyy lame if it was a Friday spent inside, largely.  So we went out to this nice bar/pub place known as the Rocket.  Not too bad.  I tried a Guinness Red, which I really didn't like.  Should always stick with the regular Guinness.  Lesson learned, I suppose.

This week was fairly boring, so not a lot.  I'll update you all soon.

-e.

NP: Alex Cline - Continuation

 

A really good jazz record.  Alex Cline is Nels Cline's twin brother, which guarantees goodness as they both have beyond crazy loads of talent.