Jet Lag Time 5000!

Wow, this computer lab is cold! I'll have to make this short, or else I'll freeze to death in here, lol.
Well, I'm successfully in England. I'm staying at two story flat in South Kensington that is rather interesting- only one of the toilets actually flushes, and as it turns out it's the only functioning toilet in the entire place! I'm sad because they changed the housing assignments at the last minute, so I'm not with the people I requested to be with, though they are in the same townhouse. Instead I'm with one girl I like, Mel, two girls I barely know, two girls I wish I didn't know, and one girl who wears those really short, short knit skirts they sell at Urban Outfitters that make you want to vomit so much.

I was enormously excited yesterday when I was sitting in a room here at the school watching MTV Britain, or whatever they call it, and a music video by The Streets came on! I think it was called "You're fit but you know it." The lead singer has really, really bad teeth- Go Team Britain! ;-)
Ooh, and yesterday I actually saw one of the new mini-coopers with the Union Jack on it's roof! Very thrilling, let me tell you. I ate dinner with this girl Mel at a swanky Indian restaurant, though we split the food since it cost so much. The exchange rate over here really, really sucks. You basically look at things and say "Oh, well that's not so bad," but then you remember to multiply the price times two, and suddenly you can't afford anything. Amusingly enough, the Indian restaurant had a group speaking Japanese!

They're very considerate here- on crosswalks it tells you which way to look so you don't get run over.

Today we took a guided bus tour and then a tour through Westminister Abbey, which was nice. I forgot my tube card in the room, so Mel and I had to walk back, which wasn't so bad. On the way we stopped and took pictures at Buckingham Palace and lay around on the grass in St. James' Park watching the swans. We also stopped at the ever-so-swanky Harrod's, and looked around at all the high fashion. My God, that store is big. They had this extraordinary room which mainly sold chocolates! And they had three different kinds of baklava! I would have been in heaven, if it weren't for the high price tags on absolutely everything (which didn't stop me from getting a couple of truffles). :-)

Anyway, I'm off to the grocery store. Hopefully if I do my own cooking as much as possible I can afford to eat on this trip :-P
Cheers!