Classes Begin

Ahhh I'm slacking on my "daily" journal. Since Saturday night was basically our last night of freedom before classes began, we felt obligated to go out. After people backing out and finally convincing them to come out again, we decided to try a club named Scala, about 10 minutes away from the dorm. Unfortunately, the music that was playing there was some sector of electronic music called drum & bass, and I'm not particularly a fan of it. It was really hard to dance to and my ear drums were being fried so after about half an hour and a shot of tequila later we decided to head out back to The Rocket where we could actually request music that was good. Too bad it closes at 2AM, so we only had about half an hour there to hang out and half the group left to eat McDonald's instead. Overall, a decent last night of freedom.

On Sunday, NYU gave us a panoramic bus tour of London, on which we visited St. Paul's Cathedral, Tower Bridge, Westminster Abbey and Buckingham Palace among other places. We all slept relatively early in preparation of our first day of classes. Luckily, my first Monday class is at 1:30PM so I got to sleep in a little longer than the rest of the roommates. First day of classes was okay. I decided that English accents are nice, except when you have to listen to your professor lecture with the accent for 3 hours straight. Then it becomes a little annoying and hard to listen to. But so far, the professor for my first class of the semester seems decent, and at least we get a 30 minute break in the middle. I was starting to feel a little trapped in the tiny rooms NYUL calls "classrooms." The highlight of my night was playing monopoly with Lynn and Charine... haha. Tomorrow we are planning to visit the British Museum near campus with some people so hopefully that will be fun! Good night :)