Daylight fades at 3:30pm
On Tuesday I will have been here 3 months and in many ways the last month has been both the best and the worst. I’m beyond the homesickness stage, although I do miss family and friends a lot (particularly now as Christmas approaches). I’ve finished my first term at LSE and it seems odd to think that I’m a third of the way through Masters, time is flying by. Excuse me recapping on things I may have said already . . .
I love London, living in the central city is fabulous and it means that I spend very little on the tube. I’ve started going to HTB, which is on the other side of the central city so I tend to catch the tube there and back but otherwise my life usually revolves around walking as far as I can. It’s great! We have little parks on both sides of Passfield, and even our own garden with grass and trees. Although it’s not something anyone is appreciating right now, I’m sure they’ll prove popular in Summer. It’s got quite cold here, although not as cold as I’d expected. It’s fun venturing out once the sun goes down (at around 3:30pm) with lots of layers on and seeing how far you can get before you realise that you’ve left scarf or gloves at home. I keep forgetting that evenings outside are going to be much colder than my nice warm room. We live in a very nice area of town and it’s reasonably safe, although I’m usually walking with friends after dark. LSE is a 20 minute walk away and is a completely crazy place. The professors are nuts, the other students are incredibly intelligent and focused and we’re surrounded by the Royal Courts of Justice and several other important places (I refuse to count the Australian embassy as an “important place” however).
Uni finished last Friday, and as is the way of things, all hell broke loose at Passfield over the previous two weeks culminating in a very odd extraordinary committee meeting on Friday night. I got almost no sleep for the two weeks, and somewhat unsurprisingly ended up with something resembling the flu by Saturday. I did, however, have a fabulous night last Wednesday though, I think it was Wednesday, the whole week went by very oddly and quickly.
Anyway Christmas . . . I’m heading to York, a fabulous little city in Yorkshire (makes sense really, doesn’t it) for 3 days of tourist delight on Sunday. I’m then going to a little village where my dad’s best friend’s family live and I’m going to spend Christmas with them. I’ll also, hopefully, find time to work on my Development Management essay there. I’m heading to family on the Welsh/English border for New Years and then back to London on the 2nd to work on my 2nd and 3rd essays. What fun! It’ll be nice when all the Passfield people get back on the 7th, I’m already missing their general craziness a lot, although I might see some of them over the break.
Time to fly, I have some final photocopying to do for Mum, the last parcels to mail and then packing to sort out. Fun fun fun, tralalalala! I’m sorry this isn’t a proper catch up, but then again if I wrote about everything you’d get quickly bored by the masses of paragraphs to read . . . must update blog more often :oP
Here the sun sets at like exactly 6pm each night. You could set your watch by it. Evening lasts for like half an hour before it gets dark…
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