Love London

Since this seems to be the genuinely overseas-student thing to do, I shall indulge! It's fantastic coming back to London...finding cheap student eats (hence satisfying the cheapo in me) in the midst of Piccadilly Circus no less, and then being able to stroll home past Trafalgar...the feeling is just indescribable. I'd like to thank my housemates for lugging me out the door after all.

And of course, the incredibly fast download speeds. I've downloaded at least 9 movies over two nights! Haha...who needs TV?

Then of course, the fact that I get to doll up my own room. I've since been to Ikea to buy myself a crossbar for some shelves I bought last year (and couldn't set up without the crossbar, doh), as well as the loveliest plant in the world! In honor of Richard Hammond (and because I've been watching Top Gear), I shall name it Oliver. So I was sitting at Mitcham Junction Train Station with YZ (housemate), after having insisted we should buy two massively bulky barstools because they were on discount, and poor YZ had to carry them back because....well, I suck. So anyway I was sitting at the station, holding a glass bowl, metal sticks and a plant, feeling for all the world like the head of the beggar sect. Predictably, at the tired haziness that 10 hours of school brings, YZ and I found that ridiculously funny, and probably scared a great deal of the local fauna from the crazy asian people.

Oh well...school's started, and we've hit the ground running. From Monday to Friday, I've had gruelling 10 hour days, which most people will know is culture shock for me. Then from next week, we're on rotations everyday (postings to hospitals). In addition to a huuuge A4 sized book of nothing but...learning objectives. From cursory multiplication, I estimate that book contains about...5-6 THOUSAND learning objectives. Wee!

Don't do medicine, kids.