Time Waits for No Man

So I'm behind a little on updating everyone on things. Haha I'm adapting into London life: I wear my headphones on the tube, I eat at weird times and I don't mind walking all over just because. I honestly lose so much track of time lately. It's all a blur of London and classes. I think it's become such a routine that I'm assimilating into my own London life. If I keep track time moves slowly, if I don't then time races past and I don't know which I prefer. There's a lot that's happened... Taylor and I spend a lot of time together. We've walked the river Thames if I haven't mentioned that, saw a lot of sights and told some deep life topics to one another. We found the "Haunted London Experience and want to try it out"... We've gone to a few bars and clubs with some Londoners which is like an everyday event almost for locals. We've been a little wrapped up in classes though and I'm starting to race through to my first midterm on Monday. It's so weird having this class schedule but it's nice to have so much time to explore London. I've now purchased tickets to Rome, Dublin and Paris over the next three weekends, we're going to the Tower of London tomorrow, we bought tickets for Madame Tussaud's and might buy tickets to the Harry Potter Studio ;) haha There's a lot to do here and now it's to the point that I don't even notice the differences that I did in the beginning, I can understand accents on the tube, I know the places I love and don't love. I have my favorite shops, coffee stores, pizza places, pubs, hair salon, parks and places to hangout. Jason, the Irishman, has hung out with us a few times and I met a new friend! Sam has a masters from Bristol, works for newspaper and is seriously so funny! He's brilliant. I've venturing out on own more and I like that. I feel resilient and I'm learning a lot about myself. My goals, passions and ambitions. The friends that I want to keep. The people I enjoy being around, and even the places I want my future to go. I thought I had it worked out and now I want to go a new route. I am going back to grad school after a year off. Being abroad made me realize I want more knowledge about people and how they communicate. So I'm going back... And then after that ill work and get some experience and then go back and be a professor at a university. Teach people my ridiculous ways ;) I think I would make a fun professor. It takes a lot to study abroad. There's a lot you have to know and learn before you even get a clue on how to be. Now most of this is old territory. It's really humbled me in a lot of ways though. I miss the US and I miss UW a lot. There's so much I took for granted and thought I wanted away from. This really changed my perspective on things. We went to a football match today, it was really... Intense. You can't stand up during the game without getting yelled at, there's the home side, away side and the neutral side so fans don't attack each other. The players are phenomenal! I love "soccer" back home! So this was great! We were about 10 rows from the field. We were so close to the players is was such a new experience for me. Fulham won 1-0 against Stoke City. Then we went to this amazing pizza place in Hammersmith and Allison, Taylor and I got hair cuts and I went tanning. I was in desperate need of vitamin D! It's so overcast here that a lot of people tan in beds to get vitamin D. It really helps with the gloom you sometimes get in London :) earlier this week we went to the Tate Modern or Art History and it was really interesting. Picasso, Candinscki, and cubism... Not my cup of tea but really interesting, Hogarth had some really morbid and depressing pieces that were cool to see but left me feeling oddly sad as I left. We then got to go to the Liechtenstein exhibit! That was really interesting all the modern dots like comic books. Then Caroline took us to the top floor that over looks the Thames... It was so gorgeous! You could see St Paul's! After a while abroad... You find the things you like and places that are really good. We've gotten a bunch of deals on things by just exploring London and kind of doing what we want. It's so exciting and liberating to make your own choices in a new or foreign place. It's very empowering.