Hello From London!

It's been about a week and I've barely had time and energy to blog—my apologies! So far this still feels a bit unreal. I'm sitting in the lecture for my second class right now. Classes here are only once a week, but last four hours! Which is, some might say, a lot. But with a good professor it goes by rather quickly. At least until 5:00 or so. I had my first class yesterday—Genre Fiction—and it was pretty delightful! My classmates were chill, as was the professor—but he was also funny and just a personable fellow. The workload is the only thing that scares me—we have to read a book a week plus read an article and watch an hour video lecture. I meant to get a lot of the reading done this morning, but—cooking interfered!

That's been the biggest challenge so far! My parents never really taught me how to cook and I'm used to relying on the dining halls in America, so it's been a literal learning process, and quite a stressful one at that! I feel like everybody my age knows how to cook—even friends like Eggshell who live in dorms. I know Blue and Green both know how, and Grey does as well. So it all makes me feel like I'm way behind, and a bit pathetic, to be honest. I'm 19 years old and don't know how to do much beyond cooking ramen on the stovetop. It's made cooking this intimidating, impenetrable fog of an activity. I've managed to fry eggs without much incident, but trying to make fried rice last night resulted in a bit of a breakdown 

It's the next day now! I've been very busy of late. And not busy at all. I meant to get a good deal of homework done today and only got about half the reading done that I wanted to get done. But I suppose I have all of tomorrow to do it, as well, and some leftover time on Friday. Blue's coming to visit from his university on Saturday! And then Sunday after church I was thinking of hanging out on-line with Grey and playing some Minecraft. We meant to do that the other day but I had a stress-induced stomachache after my nightmare fried rice episode. Although the rice actually turned out better than I thought!

I just think the stoves here are screwed up, because this morning I spend Heaven only knows how long waiting for the last bit of egg to cook when I was frying two eggs for breakfast, and by the time everything was done the rest was cold. They don't get hot---just warm at best, as my flatmate put it---and they're so unevenly heated!

My second class---Ancient History---is pretty unremarkable. There are a lot more guys in that class compared to Genre Fiction, and I got a true British lad experience yesterday:

Professor: Why is it so hard to validate these ancient artifacts?
Lad (without missing a beat): Because it's really old innit?

I've been watching a lot of YouTube the past week (I've been here a week!!!) because I don't really know what else to do to fill my time outside of class. I'm not really close enough with people to ask them to come over yet, and I don't have any hangout ideas, plus I'm normally tired enough that I just want to chill alone. It's very odd so far but it's only the start of the semester! I still have a lot of time to get used to everything and get into the swing of it.

But that's about it for now. I think I might start getting ready for bed or something---I really am very tired! Toodles!