Jessi M

So I finally got out of Heathrow airport and am now snug in Hatfield just outside of the city. So...my flight redirected to Stansted and then I waited three hours for my luggage and then traveled by train to Heathrow. It only took a totally reasonable 8 hours! After that I spent the night and much of the next day in the terminal before I was rescued by a friend of a friend. Thankfully a family friend put me up at her house just outside the city so I could wait out the four days until my flight goes out. Things are looking good at the airport now so hopefully I will get out of England on the 23rd! While I wait Kath and I have been to visit a couple local landmarks like Hatfield house ... read more

Freshers' Week I have settled into my single! I have been surrounded by freshmen going crazy. The girls in my corridor are great and we have a good time together. So far I have had only one class and it was taught by an American! I am not too worried though since it was in International Relations which apparently is a department overrun by Americans! I have joined a couple societies and can't wait to get started. I also want to keep everyone up to date on the things that I see here and don't understand: the first is meat pies, I have had chicken pie and it was delicious but there is a line and I think they have crossed it! also I have had several sightings of what I can only describe as "man ... read more

Less Than 24 Hours Tomorrow at the completely reasonable hour of 5 am I will take off for my year abroad. I really dislike that I have posted this to my facebook but I would rather people were able to find it if they want to read it...and if you are like me and couldn't care less what other people are doing on their glorified vacations, then you can just ignore that link and you probably wouldn't be reading over my information anyway. I know that I am terrible about writing and keeping in touch so hopefully I will be better about keeping this up and then I will only have to write all of this once! That is all I think I need to include in my first entry from the exotic local that is ... read more