In order to destress and cheer ourselves up after a rather exhausting and overwhelming week of introductory lectures, two of my flatmates (Dao from Thailand and Yiota from Cyprus) and I decided to spend Friday in London. We caught a bus from campus into Uxbridge to take the Underground (the subway which is also called the tube) into the city. From Uxbridge, it's about an hour by tube to reach the center of London. Our first stop was the Victoria and Albert Mus...

No photos to add today, but I wanted to update you on my very first day of lectures as a postgraduate student. Today it became abundantly clear that I know next to nothing about anthropology (reminder: my course is Psychological and Psychiatric Anthropology). That's not surprising considering that I have had exactly one anthropology class my freshman year at IUP and remember exactly three things: 1. The prof, Dr. Ziker, (who was a complete dork) tripped on ...

Today I went to Windsor with two other American students, Kate and Lindy. It took us a bit longer than we expected to get there because the first bus we took had to turn around because a road was closed which didn't get us to our stop in time to catch the second bus we needed to take to Windsor. We had a longer wait at the bus stop than we would have wished, but we made it without problem. On the second bus, we met a lovely older gentleman who had been a hist...

"The choices we make, not the chances we take, determine our destiny" As of about 5:15 pm yesterday, I officially became a Brunel student! I got my student ID (if you are going to take someone's photo for a card that she must use frequently for an entire year, don't wait until she has been making her way through a maze of stations to the back of an extremely warm and stuffy room--yup, that's how good my student ID is), school e-mail address, and library card. ...

Despite the fact that I feel like I have an unnatural amount of spare time, I have gotten quite a bit accomplished in the past couple days. Yesterday, on my way to the bus stop to head into Uxbridge, I bumped into my American flatmate and her dad who invited me to join them as they were on their way there in the car they rented. I was able to purchase quite a few of the items I needed but had been unable to pack. As an added bonus, one of the shopping plazas h...