Arrival!

Wow. So finally after all the months of preparation and forms and all of that lovely stuff, I'm finally here with 86 other Ithaca College students in wonderful London. It doesn't feel too foreign surprisingly enough, mostly because they speak English here. It just feels like a cleaner version of New York City.

The keyboards are obnoxious, though, because some of the keystrokes are different simply because they don't use the same symbols that we do in the states. The @ is above the ' instead of the ", which is above the 2. Weird. Oh well, I can deal. The main thing is that we're all here and safe and looking for flats.

The flight in was fantastic, minus the lack of sleep. Between Monday morning and Wednesday night, I was able to get about 90 minutes of sleep; everyone was completely off the wall or grumpy, which was actually rather amusing when it comes down to it. But anywho, the flight was great. Airplane food is fantastic and so is Virgin Airways when it comes to in-flight entertainment. They have all these shows and CDs and movies you can watch while you're there, so I watched The Bourne Ultimatum and Fantastic 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer. YEAH. Very quality cinema right there. And the hotel here is AMAZING. It's pretty much a 4-star hotel with a great breakfast spread and a king size bed that my buddy Luke and I split. We established a "man barrier" consisting of 2 pillows set in a line that we would not cross when we shared the bed. I love my friends. :o)

So now everyone is in the midst of looking for flats. I'll keep you posted as to whether or not I have gotten one and such, but we're hoping for something that isn't too expensive and has a close proximity to both the London Centre (where we take classes, in the picture below) and our internships, which will be starting either next week or the following week. For now it's orientation and flat hunting for all. Common places include Bayswater, Westminster, Kensington and Central London. Try saying them. You'll feel British just saying them. Or maybe that's just me.

But for now, I'm going to hop off of the blog and do some writing before the orientation session begins again. It's almost 6 p.m. now in London, which makes it about 1 p.m. in New York and on the East Coast, so it's actually dinner time! Keep reading to find out more in the wondrous saga of Seth and the Hunt for a Place to Live, as well as other fascinating details. Thanks for praying if you have been and please keep on it. And if you're not, I don't not like you, you're just excluded from the previous sentence.


Bye for now!