"Hoard toilet paper. You understand me? Hoard it. Hoard it, like it's made of gold."

It's 2014, the sixteenth day of the second month of 2014 to be exact, and Chuck was right.
The apocalypse may not yet have begun, but Supernatural fans, be prepared!

It's a Sunday night here in East London & I haven't been to the shops in a bit. Tissues were the first thing I ran out of, then food, & now I'm on my last roll of toilet paper... Oh the joys of adulthood! (SEMI-adulthood - I refuse to believe I have reached a point where I have to worry about impending taxes & career choices) I think we're attempting the trek to Tesco tomorrow, seeing as last time we got half-way & gave up. Food isn't the only thing I'm running low on, fitness is becoming a problem.

Today we revisited the lovely, unique streets of Camden & ate our way around the markets, after last night's clubbing adventures. We left the city last night with sandwiches & at least six litres of water between the five of us, because apparently Macca's in the city closes at 11:45pm - an absolute injustice in my opinion! Second only to the catastrophe that is public transport after a night out. Unlike New York, London does sleep, a lot.

We wandered around the market stalls, looking for the grilled cheese - mac & cheese place, but it was nowhere to be found, so we settled for Chinese take-out & fries, followed by gourmet donuts, followed by deep-fried mars bars & snickers, followed by a quip about rechecking gym class prices...

If I can be a little more organised (I have an assignment due on Tuesday, let's not talk about it), my next video will hopefully be a study abroad check list of sorts. I want to compile snippets of us talking about the little unexpected things we have learnt along the way, things that we still find baffling, & everything else in between. It might be ready for youtube soon, or it might not happen at all, so don't expect too much!

The most incredible rainbow I have ever seen - the photo does not do it justice!

We also visited the British Museum & the Tate Modern this week, which were wonderful! The British Museum is definitely more than just a morning stop & I can see us returning there many times!

I'm off to reheat some vegetarian lasagna - I'll put the recipe up for that soon! xo

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Currently listening to Goodness Gracious by Ellie Goulding, which is the latest single from her awesome album Halcyon Days ♫

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"Red hair, hand-me-down robe..."

"You must be a Weasley!"

At least, I've always wanted to be one!
This week we went out to a casino to watch the Denver Broncos get slaughtered, showed our faces at The Underground Bar (Uni Club) a few times, made many more trips to ASDA, wandered around the city & got our photo taken entering Platform 9 ¾.

Sydney & I showing our house pride.

I only endured one class this week due to a union action strike (seems like lecturers can't escape poor teaching conditions anywhere!), Urban Anthropology, which is a first year class based around the practice of observation & ethnography. My only surprise was my lecturer, who looked like he had stepped out of Downton Abbey. It was like watching a walking & talking version of every posh British stereotype rolled into one. There was a three piece suit, a gold pocket watch, a long black trench coat, a bowler hat & a clay smoking pipe involved, it was an intense introduction to British academia!

All of us internationals are finally adjusting to using public transport, (even though it's ridiculously overpriced) & navigating our way around the city. Vanessa, Alicia & I sat in a Costa coffee shop for over two hours on Thursday afternoon after exploring the city & making a wrong turn on our way back to the tube station. It is really lovely not be on any real kind of schedule (apart from classes of course) & being able to go wherever, whenever, with our wallets being our only restriction... we all agreed we need to marry someone rich if we want to maintain the lifestyle!

Again I don't want to write for hours & bore everyone to death, so I will leave you one of my favourite, tourist-y photos I have taken so far, & my latest vlog!

I had the BBC Sherlock theme song stuck in head all day after this.

I have started to introduce the Americans to vegemite, but it's not going so well, I'll keep you updated!

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Currently listening to: The National's album, High Violet. I used their song, 'England' in my vlog, but the whole record is wonderful! ♫

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