I had quite a busy and eventful weekend.  On Friday I headed into London (again) with my flatmate Yiota and one of her classmates, Ameliana, who is also from Cyprus.  We began our day in Trafalgar Square, London’s best-known square.  Nelson’s Column is located here in honor of one of England’s great military heroes, Horatio Viscount Nelson.  The column stands 144 feet high including the 16-foot tall figure of Nelson (in real ...

Despite the rainy weather, Yiota and I ventured into London for a Friday of sight seeing.  We had decided to just walk around the city to see the sights and save all the tours, museums, etc. until the weather gets colder.  Even though I had seen all of the places we had on our itinerary at least once before, I really enjoyed seeing everything again (and taking some photos for you).  We began our day a little later than planned because someone slept...

After many glorious days of warmth and sun, the true English weather has now arrived: cold and rainy.  But have no fear.  Not even a bit of foul weather could keep the Brunel Graduate School from having their annual Postgraduate Party!  All you need is to fill a tent with free food and beer and a live band and the students will come.  Everyone was celebrating making it through another week of lectures.  Since all of my lectures are on Wed...

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 ...