First Week of School

I've officially completed my first week of college in Britain. Actually, I finished my first week yesterday. Here at St. Mary's classes only meet once a week for about 2 hours each (totally different than college back in America). I have somehow managed my schedule so that I only have classes Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday giving myself a 4 day weekend... every weekend. My first class was suppose to be on Monday, however, after waiting for the teacher and students to show up to class that morning I found out that my teacher forgot to e-mail the international students saying his classes were canceled. 

The rest of my scheduled classes did go through as planned. I only have one class on Tuesday, which is a religion class, and it is fairly awkward since I am the only international student in the class. My Wednesday is a little packed with my last two classes (but I can't really complain since this time last year my Wednesdays consisted on 3 lectures & 2 labs). I have a philosophy class in the morning and a history class in the afternoon. My philosophy class gave me my second "reality shock" because during a class discussion all the students were talking so fast that I couldn't understand them! I felt as if I was in Germany or France and they were speaking another language! 

Along with the start of classes this week, Kevin and I have decided that Thursdays will be our "tourist-y" days since neither of us have classes that day. Today was our first tourist day on our own, and we spent it by taking the train down to Central London and visiting the National Gallery. One of the craziest things about the cities over here is that many of their museums are free, including this one! I was unfortunately not allowed to take any pictures in the gallery, but words cannot describe how many pictures there were in this museums. Kevin and I were there for over 2 hours and only got through 1/2 of the museum! But in that 2 hours, the number of famous paintings we saw is uncountable. We got to personally see the art work of Leonardo Di Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael, etc. After a few hours of exploring the gallery our tummys started to rumble. Just a 5 minute walk from the Gallery was London's Chinatown! We stopped in one of the restaurants there to grab an early dinner (don't ask how Kevin got me to eat there, I don't even know how it happened.) After dinner we went into M&M World and headed back to Twickenham. 

National Gallery at Night

had to take this classic picture

M & M World!