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August 30, 2007

To All My Friends

Dear you,

Thanks for the e-mail. How have you been? I too miss hanging out together. Remember the time at that place with the thing? Well, something almost exactly like that happened to me in my first week in London. Except this time, the cars drove on the other side of the road – if you know what I mean.

London has been fantastic. In the two weeks before school started I spent time searching for a place to live. My flatmates are probably the best people in the entire year. We have an American girl who's real voice I have yet to hear, an Aussie girl who must have been an actress or a spy before the program and an American guy who has been described as "strikingly handsome". We spent the whole two weeks hunting down flats - hasn't been that easy looking for a 4 bedroom place. Most of the places we saw were tiny and overpriced. I'm amazed that many of the people I've talked to are paying over £200(!) per person per week. Ridiculous. We were lucky enough to run into a builder during our hunt and ended up dealing directly with a landlord. We're in a temporary place right now - a three bedroom flat - but we're moving to a four bedroom next month. The neighbourhood that we're in is great. Maida Vale - residential mainly with some quaint shops, restaurants and pubs.

It hasn't been all work. The evenings were filled with the Flat Hunters' Pub Crawl. It was more or less an excuse to get togther and answer the questions about where I was from, what I did and what I'm doing over and over again. This is all while feeling bad about not having found a flat, but good with the increasing number of beers imbibed. The Americans in the crowd lead the charge to the clubs afterwards. I'm thoroughly impressed by their exuberance.

School officially started with registration, Pimms and a barbeque this past Monday. We spent Tuesday and Wednesday at Lord's Cricket Grounds hearing about what a great and diverse group of people we are. We did something called The Intenational Citizens Game. Essentially the countries present had to do 2 minute skits to introduce themselves to the rest of the class. It was hilarious. The South Koreans came in singing this traditional korean boating song. The Germans tried to sell themselves off. As expected from anyone in Canada, we blatantly ripped off the I Am Canadian rant. Figures that we'd present a beer commercial to tout our national identity. I didn't realize the number of Americans and Indians in the course. Though about 53 countries are represented in our class.

I've been introduced to my study group - the people I'm going to spend the most time with for the rest of the year. They're a pretty cool group. More about them later. I have to run off now to find some food before our career services talk.

Tah for now, write back soon.

Wince

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