We made it to London last Friday! Brandon and I are here in London until June 2nd for a semester abroad through Central Oregon Community College (for less than half the price of a term abroad through the University of Oregon). There are 12 of us from different community colleges in Oregon on our trip, and a teacher from Chemeketa Community College in Salem came along to teach us Dramatic Literature (plays basically) and Theater Appreciation. Our other classes are Intro to British Film taught by a British film critic, and British Life and Culture taught by a British sociologist.
Like I said we got into London last Friday at roughly 9 am GMT - which was 2 am PST back home in Oregon. My ankles were insanely swollen from the flight so that was slightly miserable, and we had to wait a few hours at Heathrow for the rest of our group to arrive. On the way from the airport to our program office jet lag hit us like a Mack truck, and I could barely keep my eyes open as we got our packets with all of our homestay information, Oyster card (that's our transport card that gets us on the Tube and buses here in London) and class info.
We got to take a cab to our homestay house which is in North London in a nieghborhood called Harringay. (I'll add a picture of the house tomorrow!)
We ended up crashing for several hours and waking up in time for dinner with the family - a yummy stir fry which the family cooked for us. After dinner came more sleeping - we had to be up early in the morning to get into town and meet up with our group for a guided tour of London on Saturday!
