The past couple weeks have been pretty busy--a good busy though. Term 2 is in full swing and in addition to the regular readings and classwork, I am also trying to sort out my topic for my dissertation. The weather has also gotten much colder, and we even had snow Wednesday night. Nothing much compared to what people at home are dealing with, but enough to cause problems on the roads and trains for the morning commute. Lots of people in my classes and building we...

Hello all! After a busy two weeks in the States, I landed back in London on 5 January to begin Term 2. Due to a delay on my flight out of Pittsburgh to Chicago that would have caused me to miss my connecting flight to Heathrow, United rebooked me to go through D.C. instead. Despite the fact that I then spent another hour waiting in Pittsburgh, I loved it because I got to fly from D.C. to London in business class. Ah, that is the life! So, my flight back was only...

Hello, all! I thought I better up-date one more time before I head back to the US for Christmas break. The first term at Brunel ended officially today, and I had my last lectures yesterday. And while it feels good to be able to say that I made it through Term 1, my work for this term is not quite finished yet. I have three essays that will be due the first week I am back in January. That means that although I have plenty of time before I must submit them, I actua...

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! I celebrated today by attending two lectures and handing in an essay! Woohoo! But don't worry--we are having our big meal in Kilmorey Hall on Saturday.Because I have been busy working on the assignment due today, I did not have a chance to up-date you on my trip to Oxford this past weekend. I had a lovely and relaxing two days at Julie and Tim's new place. Since they had Tim's dad's car, we got to drive a few miles out...

I returned this morning from visiting my eighth European country: Belgium! Yiota, Lindy, and I left Friday morning from London's Waterloo train station on a Eurostar train bound for Brussels. We spent a few hours in Brussels on Friday before taking a train to Brugge. We stayed in Brugge until early Monday morning when we returned to Brussels to travel back to London on the Eurostar. It was so nice to get away from Brunel for a long weekend. Being in Belgium r...