Living a Lie

Yes ladies and gentleman I have just discovered that for the past 20 years I have been deceived by grocery stores all across America.... eggs do not have to be refrigerated. After vainly searching the refrigerated dairy section I discovered the elusive cartons hiding on a shelf next to the pasta, first cultural weirdness discovered! I didn't by them though- the rational part of my brain tells me that millions of the British people have been living with non-refrigerated eggs for as long as there have been fridges and seem to be surviving just fine, but couldn't bring myself to do it just yet... But enough about eggs. These last few days have been hectic, exciting, overwhelming and awesome! To start, I LOVE my flat. The neighborhood is great, the flat itself is much bigger than I expected and walking distance to where I will go to class and intern. Here are a few pics (which don't really do the place justice but just to give you and idea)

Walk in the front door and turn right and you will come to these stairs (which, unsurprising to many of you I'm sure, I have already managed to fall down once and trip up twice on)

They go down to three bedrooms and two bathrooms (both with separate tub and shower). My room is a triple and looks like this:

There is a bathroom in our triple that I share with my two roommates and another bathroom the other three girls share downstairs. Upstairs there is another bathroom and the living room:

with two couches, table, lamps and a tv none of us can figure out how to use. Down a hallway is our kitchen:

There is a back door that goes to a tiny garden, which is awesome in a huge city. Bloomsbury itself is full of gardens, every couple of blocks there is a big square (I am next to two, Russell square and Bloomsbury Square) which are all still green and very pretty.

These past few days have been hectic: class orientation, shopping, exploring, meeting people, went on the London Eye, went on a walking tour and a bus tour which were both great because I got to see a lot of the city that way including: Buckingham Palace, the Tower of London, Westminster Abbey, Big Ben, St. James' Park, Albert Hall, St. Paul's Cathedral... basically we just drove everywhere today (completely sunny and beautiful day too!) and saw all the good touristy spots. Here are a few of my favorite pics: Tower of London

Buckingham Palace Tower Bridge St. Paul's Cathedral

Westminster Abbey

View from the London Eye

Well, this takes forever to upload pics so that's all I'm doing now, more to come on facebook!

I've been locked in my room a couple of times, yes you read right. Not OUT of but IN. There was no door handle on the inside side of the door to my bedroom so when I closed it, there was no way to open it again. Imagine me banging on the door trying to explain to a very confused flatmate why they had to open the door to let me OUT of the room. Fixed now thankfully! Interview tomorrow, classes start Tuesday... will update more later!