Inaugural post redo

Since my first blog really should have been how excited I am to be going to London and not my bleak burgerking bitching, I'm going to do this again: WHOOOO I am going to LONDON! But it gets better because now, as I type this very minute I AM IN LONDON!!!! Here's the scoop on what I will be doing:
-Living: Bloomsbury, London- sharing a flat with 5 other American girls in the program from Clark University and Sienna, living in a flat, in a triple room, really close to the British Museum
-Studying: Birkbeck College (3 classes: Shakespeare in London, Globalization and Regionalization, Modern Theater and the London Stage). Each class meets once a week for a 3 hour block, mine meet on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.
-Interning: Monday, Thursday and Friday at Kings College Department of War Studies where I will work for a Doctor who (straight from the email so you all know about as much as I do at this point) "is a specialist in Risk and Terror and Radicalisation. You will do some research and also liaise with Porter Down, our British government facility-it is a defence science and technology laboratory." More to come on what exactly that all means after January 1oth, which is when I start.

To explain the traveling nightmare: My mom and stepdad didn't get on the flight to Minneapolis and I did, so I stayed the night in a hotel and they met up with me the next day. Delta's computers showed that the luggage was in Salt Lake and we couldn't just get on the plane and go to London and have them forwarded to us since, due to security restrictions, you have the physically be on the plane with your bags, they can't travel alone. Hence the being stuck in MN as we waited for our bags to get there. Bob (works for Delta) asked a friend to go down to the baggage place in Salt Lake and look for our bags and get them to stick them on a plane to MN, and when he looked he found that the bags were not actually in Salt Lake at all, even though the computer said they were. The baggage guy told this friend that they had been so busy the day before that they stopped scanning bags and just tossed them on the plane. Therefore, they all actually went to MN the day before when I did, and were somewhere in the Minneapolis airport, but we couldn't see where since they were not scanned. After dealing with some very unintelligent individuals who told him the bags were still in SLC, Bob got the 10th baggage person we talked to to go search for them there (which she didn't have to do but she was nice thank god) and finally they were found! (with our London flight leaving in an hour and a half). Funny thing is that the guy who eventually found our bags was British! So we chatted about London and he happened to be from around the same area that Bob's family in London lives. Small world- the one British guy in MN happens to be the one who finds our luggage so I can go to London. In the end it all worked out so enough complaining because I MADE IT!

I get to move in tomorrow and meet the people from my program. I walked around the neighborhood where I will be living and it seems very very nice. The atm from the bank I need is right up the street, plus a grocery store, pharmacy, tons of restaurants and I've only seen about a block from where I will be living so I still have a ton of exploring to do. Orientation starts tomorrow at 1:30, very excited and I will update more as my adventures begin!