May 17

Currently May 18th, 10:28pm (Backlog)

Okay, so I'm a bit behind.  After I got to my room, I tookoff my shoes, unpacked my stuff, etc.  I found out from the guys who were already there that originally the four guys were given the keys to the smaller room, and the two girls were given the keys to the bigger room.  Nobody had (or has since) locked any doors, so the guys took over the larger room.  Two beds were taken, with a single bunk-bed remaining.  I went in the lower bunk, but that turned out to be hopelessly small, and I hit my head.  Couldn't even sit up all the way.  So I wound up taking the top bunk, believe it or not.

Unpacked stuff, then we went on a 3pm walking tour guided by the EUSA people.  The three other guys in my room were in by then, but both girs  They took us over to the EUSA building, and then from there we went up to the Gloucester Road, and she pointed out stores to go to and explained the Oyster Card to us.  After that about half the group went back to the flats and half of us went onwards to the supermarket she reccomended.  I got nuts, oat-crackers, bananas, and frozen lasagna.

After getting back, I went to the meeting held by the landlord.  Most of the people weren't there, so I was asked to go and knock on doors.  I got about six people, no more.  The two ladies in my flat were there at the meeting, met them, all that.

After the meeting (my male flat-mates dropped in half-way), we went up to the flat.  They wanted to go out and get a hairdryer and eat, but I had already started cooking my lasagna by then, so we all waited for that, and then for me to eat it.  The microwave was only 600W, so it took quite some time to cook the food.

We went out and walked up north until we got to Hyde park, then turned left and went to High Street Kensington.  We found the applicance store we had been reccomended, but it had just closed.  It closed at 6pm (Sunday) and we got there at 6:10pm.  We wandered aimless, then thought we should get on the High Kensington Underground to get back home.  The Circle line was under maintenance, so we could have taken the district line down to Earl's Court and then the Piccadilly line over to South Kensington, but it cost four or five pounds for something we could walk, so we decided to just walk back.

The girls were hungry, so we stopped over at a pub on the way back.  Everyone got a beer (except for me, obviously), and the girls both got food - Hannah got a Fallafel burger (she's vegetarian) and Ariana got a sausage hot-dog (like... cut up banger in a bun).  Ariana only ate half of her... hot-dog something, and so I got the other half. Neither of them ate all their fries, so I got a bunch of fries, too.

On the way back, we stopped at a 24-hour convenience store.  I got some juice (too heavy to carry from the far-away supermarket), and the rest of the ASU kids got two wine bottles (one white, one red).  We came back home, and put them in the fridge (actually the freezer - we found this out later, though) and turned on our computers.  I chatted with my lover and friends, and posted up the previous blog.  After that I fell asleep on the couch.  They woke me up at about 11pm, and I went to bed-bed-bed then.

Sorry about this being a rather detail-less description.  Ask me in the comments about things?

Also, for the records, the people living in my flat:

Women:

Ariana

Hannah

Men:

Charlie

Ross

Ernesto

All of them are from ASU - apparently EUSA grouped people by their starting University.  Larger contingent of ASU students proportional to the other schools, here in London, in the EUSA program.

On to the next day!