Mind the Gap

I originally intented to document my England trip as a series of blogs detailing my day to day life...this was partly a way of chronicaling my strange exciting life, and partly a way of trying to convince myself I lead a strange and exciting life. Instead, I sit here in a London internet cafe thinking on all the fun I've had so far. So, in less than 30 minutes, here's a quick recap.

I boarded the plane at LAX where I said goodbye to my doting mother and headed to Minneapolis. The flight sucked. We were late so I immediately boarded another plane bound to Heathrow and did that for another 10 hours. I met an interesting girl from my program on the plane...more about that later.

So I and my new found friend get off the plane, deal with a few interesting moments trying to find our way around and getting through customs. After all is said and done I meet her "too cool for school" friends and we take the tube towards the hotel. One of the fun and loveable bboy type pals make an incredibly rude diatribe at my expense (ie: so awkward I'm afraid he's a serial killer/racist) while I sit about 6 seats away from him. The others chuckle until they realize that I can hear them. So far I've been in London an hour and a half and the only Americans I know here are complete and utter assholes. We share an awkward ride, find the hotel and part ways, quickly. I get enough time in to shower and run downstairs to see a friend as she's just coming in. We meet up, go to orientation and end up meeting a random group of strangers that includes my brilliant, hilarious roommate Stuart. We all end up going to the worst Indian/Chinese buffet I will probably ever have in my life. Jetlagged and severely underslept, I make new friends...

So, narrative aside, so far this trip I've met a lot of incredible people, seen some intense and incredibly performed plays in the Globe theatre and National Theatre along with palling around with some of the coolest people I've met in a long time. There is much more to say, but with 15 minutes left on the clock I'll come back to this later.