From my journal

I havn't had internet until now so i'll write what I put in my journal.

6/23/07
Now in London! Well, just outside Heathrow. Yesterday I left Springfield at 6:20 am in the morning, flew to Chicago then to JFK. JFK was crazy once I got into the 4th terminal where Virgin Atlantic was. There were so many random airlines but the planes were all double decker 747s! Our Virgin flight was seriously just like Austin Powers meets an Orbit commercial. There were 17 flight attendants and 380 passengers. All of the attendants were 6ft skinny beautiful british blondes in pencil red skirts. I got so exited and the trip started to feel so real once I heart their pretty accents!

I entered H.P. land for sure! Bloody Hell! Supposedly you can go to the castle, great hall, and random other places where the HP movies were filmed We're goin for sure! So far I have met 10 girls from sussex university and then 4 from Westminster where I'll be going. Today we landed the plane and went to our Hotel. I thought I was going to die of sleepyness. I had some coffee and it perked me up a bit once I got in my hotel room for orientation. The girls were all really sweet and fun. (there is only one guy in our group!(so far) and he's cool too.

On top of all this I had the BEST orange juice called JUICY fresh squeezed and amazing!

6/24/07
Last night (first day in...the hotel) after a long dinner in the hote some of the girls and I took a train to Richmond and walked around. It reminded me a little of the Plaza in KC meets the riverwalk but bigger wider. When I woke up today I felt still so tired even though i went to sleep at 10:30. We then met in the conference room for a safety orientation from Butler. We then had to say goodbye to the Sussex kids and the westminster kids jumped a bus to London. On the way we saw lots of pretty parks and beautfiul white apt. flats. We then arrived a the Wigram House. My room is absolutely beautiful! It's really small but has super high ceilings, 2 ceiling to floor windows and a little balcony. I'll post a pic of it asap.

We walked around once we unpacked and and took a 30 min walk after dinner to a pub to a welcome party hosted by our program director. He bought us all drinks and I had NO idea so he told me to buy a "London Pride" beer...yeah it was DISGUSTING. First legal drink was a serious let down. oh well i wont count it b/c it was BANASTY! First night of sleep after that went surprisingly well.

25/6/07
Orientation for school was this morning. We jumped the tube from Victoria Station to Oxford Circus (amazing area reminded me of Chicago) and went to our orientation location on the Regent St Campus of Westminster. I switched into the Photo class b/c the Fashion one TOTALLY was not me. I felt sooo uncomfortable and all these kids knew just about EVERYTHING there is about fashion and i had NO idea. So I talked to the photography teacher about my tragedy and he said he'd take care of it and switch me in! So for the rest of the day I had his class and then his assistant took us to the Undergrad grad's degree shows which were AMAZING. He said that these were some of the world's best... which was sooo sweet. Now some gals are sitting in my room and we're going to plan exciting adventures... so until then! LOVE YOU ALL! I'll put up pics asap!