A blog in three part

Part One:
Traveling from Oxford to London right now.  Nothing quite fits the country side scenery out my window better than Coldplay.  "Shiver" is playing right now, but by complete shuffling randomness on my iPod.  I wish you all were here with me; I've left the comfort of Angela, Gary, and Aiden, and though I have a handful of friends scattered throughout the London area, I think tonight will be the first time I'm going to really feel like I'm not in Kansas anymore, Toto.  I'll just remind myself time and again that this is an incredible opportunity and that I will see you all again, very soon.  So I can have the best of both worlds.

Part Two:
The place is quite small.... but I don't really need a lot of room, it's not like I'll be in here all day, every day anyway.  I've got everything pretty much set.  I still need some things to hang my calendar and other things with, but I can get those this weekend.  The only thing I really hate is that the bathroom is so so so so tiny.  I'll have to take pictures tomorrow and post them.  It's a little absurd, actually.  The toilet is basically in the shower.  Like I said, I'll have to take pictures.  Good news, however, as I will be getting my phone tonight when I meet up with Maria!!  WOO!  Also, there was a pretty sweet welcome box in my room filled with all sorts of coupons and goodies like a box of cereal, Haribo Starmix, instant coffee, toothpaste, gum, and chocolate.  MMmmmmmm!

Part Three:
After getting extremely lost, I finally found Maria and we walked from Farringdon Station all the way to Bethnal Green.  Now, you must be saying, "Cool.  Don't know what that means."  Well, I'll tell you.  It's about 3 miles straight shot, but we walked around different ways, so it was probably longer.  Stopped by her local pub for a quick pint.  I think I've found my new favorite cider, Bulmer's and they serve it with just a bit of ice in the glass, so it tasted EXACTLY like apple juice.  Yum.  Must be careful, though, as it has about 300 calories in a glass.  After that we went back to her place where I met one of her flatmates, his girlfriend, and I got the phone.  Stayed there a little bit then got on a bus back to my side of town.  On the way to the stop, we got cat called continuously by what turned out to be not so attractive British lads in very baggy sports gear.  They gave us the look up and down when we started, which was horrid.  Maria yelled "Piss off" which was hysterical.   Got on the bus only to go about 2 stops and told that we had to get off because there was an accident.  I walked passed it and it really was a horrid accident.  I hope everyone involved is okay.  While the entire bus was walking, I met a very nice French guy who does freelance photography.  We talked about a number of things and then parted ways when he took one bus and I took another, about a mile down from where we had started.  Finally got off at my stop and hopped of to walk what I thought was going to be an easy 5 minute trip.  Well, I got turned around at a huge market that's near my place and ended up on the wrong side of it.  While correcting this mistake, I got yet another cat call from these drunk guys outside a pub, but this time it was in Spanish.  Nothing like bringing back creepy bus boy and cooks from Rio like getting called at in... London?  Yeah, my thoughts exactly.  Oh well.  I've been here 3 days and I've already gotten more attention than I have in a long time in the States.  So I guess I'll take it?  Probably not.  Haha, oh well.

Anywhoodle, I better get to bed.  I've got my first set of info and welcome session tomorrow at uni.  I promise I will post pictures sometime this week.  Love you all!