Catching Up

I'm behind on weekly postings once again! I guess I haven't been particularly motivated to update because I haven't been doing a whole lot that I would deem blog-worthy, but also because I'm not entirely certain how much people are reading. So, feel free to leave comments.

I guess the most exciting thing in recent history was my day trip to London during Chinese New Year (last Sunday). Myself and five other people caught a bus to London around 10:30 and made it to London by noon. We started off going by Buckingham Palace. It was hard to get a real impression of the place from, you know, behind the gates, but my only persistent thought was "hm, this makes the White House look pretty small". From there we walked down the mall towards Parliament (where Big Ben is) and Westminster Abbey and had a light lunch in a pub across the street. Then we walked across the bridge (where the police were trying to talk a girl down from jumping off) and rode the London Eye. Finally we made it to Trafalgar Square, where the Chinese New Year celebration was taking place. It turned out to be a bit lackluster, at least from what I was expecting, but was still fun nonetheless.

I feel like I've pretty much got the hang of how the classes work at this point and I think I'm doing pretty well, although it's a bit hard to gauge. My seminar class (English Society and the Church) was moved from Wednesdays at 3:00 to Tuesdays at 2:30, so while I now have two classes on Tuesdays I have nothing on Wednesdays or Fridays. I'm getting into the mode of spending all day working in the library which will probably serve me well next year, working on my SMP.

I'm afraid I don't have too much else to report, other than that I'm going to Paris for the weekend on Thursday :) I'm aware that my travel blog is sorely lacking in pictures, so I'll try and post some before I leave.