Arrived in London-town today!!!

Boy, lesson learned, when someone tells you to take the dot2dot service, (taxi service that takes you from Heathrow Airport to your destination) you should listen. I spent a good ole hour in the tube getting to central London. Then to switch to another tube, I found out that there is no such thing as elevators in their public transportation system. So I lugged around 50 lbs of luggage up and down stairs. Luckily, people here are nice and helped me out.

Emily (my study buddy) and I made our way to our Hostel to drop off our things. Right after we decided to take a stroll down some streets and get lost in London. Since, we’re right next to the building we saw St. Paul’s Cathedral (didn’t go inside yet, but we will). We then made our way to the Royal Court of Justices… nothing too interesting there, but the building was beautiful. It was kind of funny cause you had to go through security and no matter how much crap we unloaded from our pockets Emily and I kept beeping. So the guards just let us through. Lmao. Then we just kept walking and walking will we made our way to WaterlooThames River. The site was amazing! From the bridge we could see the London Eye and Big Ben, where we’ll prob go later this week. and saw

After walking for a while, Emily and I decided to find a place to eat. Being really poor students, we scoured for the cheapest place. We both got paninis for 2£65, it was pretty good. We made our way back to the Hostel and passed out. We woke up to conversations in Chinese! Our other roomies in our Hostel dorm are from China studying abroad. They’re really nice and chill, they even let me borrow their UK adaptor cause my laptop battery died. Around 8pm and we got out again to look for dinner, just stopped by and picked up a sandwich. The stores are really cute and I was surprised at all the different flavor chips and sodas they offered. I picked up a Lychee soda! It tasted like lychee with fizz and more sugar. I also got roasted chicken chips. As Emily described it, “It’s like someone dropped a bullion cube in a regular bag of chips.” Lmao.

Cant wait for tomorrow! We’re going to do some more exploring and a friend’s friend will show us some things.

Cheers!

Camille