July 19th

Before we headed off to London we woke up early to go check out the flee market in Paris, it was fun, I bought a really cute shirt and Bec and Mal got really cute dresses for super cheap. The rest of the market had everthing from jewlry to fresh fish. It was really neat to be out with the locals and soak in our last moments of Paris. This morning around 10 we left for the train station to get on our way to London. London or bust!! I'm so excited! It was only a few hour train ride but it was cool because we went under the English Channel, you can't see anything just a dark tunnal but its cool to think that you're on a train under water, pretty amazing. We arrived in London around 1 and then we had to take the metro, or as the english call it, the Tube, to South Kensington were our flats were located. The Tube here is so much better than Italy and Paris, its so much easier to read and understand. I can't even tell you how nice it is to look at a sign and be able to read and understand it at the same time! It's really nice, ha ha! We get to South Kensington and walk to our flat, we are on Mansion Place #13. The outside looks awesome and charming, kind of what you see on Harry Potter when the building separates. When we got to our flat they brought us inside and had us go down to the common room for a meeting. The RA just told us the rules and gave us an orientation about the building. I'm in Flat 11 with six other girls, Beccah, Malory, Jenna are in my room and Megan, Becky, and Michel are in the other room. Hopefully we all get along, thats a lot of girls in one flat, I guess not as bad as 13, one flat has 13 people in it! No thank you! The flats are not the greatest, its pretty dirty and old to be honest, its going to be an interesting 2 and a half weeks. It's all part of the experience right? After our orientation we were able to unpack, funniest thing happened while unbacking at poor Jenna's expence unfortunately. We were unpacking and Jenna was putting her big heavey bag on the bottom shelf of her armoire and the wait of her bag made the armoire fall right on top of her! All we hear is a big crash and a quiet "guys..." ha ha! We hurry and left up the armoire and I was expecting her to be really hurt but luckly she's so tiney that she was able to curl up in a ball and not get hurt. Poor Jenna! Ever sence then I swear our flat has a phantom! Lots of wierd noises, toilet doesn't flush very good, and the shower will randomly turn on about every half an hour...spooky. It doesn't want us to be here! After we unpacked we went to the grocery store, its called Salisbury. It was really nice to be able to buy food so that we can save some money. Later that night we met up with Darrin and went on a walking tour of London, we saw Westminister, Trafalgar Square, the London Eye, the Memorial Bridge, we walked everywhere! Its been a good day, I am ready for bed though, super tired.