Well, I decided that making a blog would be fun and would let people know what I have been up to.
One of my friends from USC, Whitney, got into the same program, and we ended up with rooms directly across from each other in our flat (which is very cool, since we can talk to each other from across the hall). We have been doing most exploring and seeing things together, so that is the "we" that I refer to. The two of us flew out of LAX at 5:30 pm on Wednesday, January 2nd, with a layover in Amsterdam, and arrived at Heathrow the next day at about 4:00 pm. Whitney and I were the last two international students to arrive, so the bus (which Queen Mary provided) had already departed. Toby, the international student director at QMUL, was still there to meet us and he hired a cab for us at the university's expense and led us to our lodgings. There, we met Liam, one of our British flatmates. He is from a suburb of London and is quite friendly. He was the only flatmate when we first arrived.
Our rooms are quite nice. Whitney and I both ended up with corner rooms, so ours are larger than the other ones in our flat and have a large desk built into the wall (with loads of desktop space), large amounts of shelving space. We even have our own bathroom/showers! We share a kitchen and flat with 4 British students. The only real drawback is that the bed is somewhat uncomfortable, but not terribly so.
The next morning we ate dinner with the other American students (there are about 150 of us) and then went through a long orientation and registration session. That evening we rode the tube down to the Tower of London, where we boarded a riverboat. We spent the evening cruising up and down the Thames with the rest of the Americans. Unfortunately, the windows all fogged up so it was difficult at times to see things (and rather cold to be going outside on the ship's deck).
One of my friends from USC, Whitney, got into the same program, and we ended up with rooms directly across from each other in our flat (which is very cool, since we can talk to each other from across the hall). We have been doing most exploring and seeing things together, so that is the "we" that I refer to. The two of us flew out of LAX at 5:30 pm on Wednesday, January 2nd, with a layover in Amsterdam, and arrived at Heathrow the next day at about 4:00 pm. Whitney and I were the last two international students to arrive, so the bus (which Queen Mary provided) had already departed. Toby, the international student director at QMUL, was still there to meet us and he hired a cab for us at the university's expense and led us to our lodgings. There, we met Liam, one of our British flatmates. He is from a suburb of London and is quite friendly. He was the only flatmate when we first arrived.
Our rooms are quite nice. Whitney and I both ended up with corner rooms, so ours are larger than the other ones in our flat and have a large desk built into the wall (with loads of desktop space), large amounts of shelving space. We even have our own bathroom/showers! We share a kitchen and flat with 4 British students. The only real drawback is that the bed is somewhat uncomfortable, but not terribly so.
The next morning we ate dinner with the other American students (there are about 150 of us) and then went through a long orientation and registration session. That evening we rode the tube down to the Tower of London, where we boarded a riverboat. We spent the evening cruising up and down the Thames with the rest of the Americans. Unfortunately, the windows all fogged up so it was difficult at times to see things (and rather cold to be going outside on the ship's deck).
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