The Start of Classes

Hello! I had my first class last night.  It's called Britain and the European Union and it's an economics class.  We have a British professor that is very funny and laid back.  It should be a pretty interesting class.  It only meets once a week on Monday evenings, but the classes are about 4 hours long each time.  He gave us 2 15 minute breaks which helped the class move a lot faster.  Today, I had Art History at 9am.  Unlike most Art History courses, we get to spend every week in a different art gallery in London.  We got to go to the National Gallery today and view some paintings while our two British professors explained them in detail.  I'm pretty excited for this class!! I would much rather spend 4 hours in an art gallery than sitting in a classroom.  Then, I have a pretty long break until my next class, Business Law.  Our professor lives here but is American so she is easy to understand.  One drawback is that she is pretty intimidating.  I'm a beginner when it comes to law so a lot of the things we discussed went straight over my head.  Hopefully I'll learn a lot though.  It's nice having all of your classes with pretty much the same people.  Tomorrow I just have marketing and it's not until noon! YES!! We have so much going on tomorrow though.  After marketing, I get a short break and then we have one of our four British Life and Culture lectures.  Then, we have a pre-departure meeting for our France trip next week which I cannot wait for!! After the meeting, we are venturing to Shakespeare's Globe Theater to watch the play Richard the III.  Such a long day ahead!  Tonight, Patrick, Joe, Kari, Kayla, Sam, Elizabeth, Christina, Hilary, and I went to The Gate which is the pub we went to a few days ago by our house.  They have 2 for 1 pizzas on Tuesdays and it was such a good deal!! The workers at the pub are all extremely nice and already know who we are after only being there twice.  They even had the song Call Me Maybe on their jukebox, so we definitely had to play that :) There was a World Cup qualifying soccer match on TV while we were at the pub.  England was playing so of course the whole pub had their eyes glued to the screens.  It's so interesting to watch people get so into the games here!  On a completely different note, it's getting easier for me to get used to taking public transportation everywhere and allowing myself enough time to get places.  We can't just jump in a car like we can back home!  I spend at least an hour and a half every day on buses and the tube.  I read one of London's free newspapers on the tube tonight and I felt like a true Londoner!  I'm definitely going to appreciate being able to drive places so much more when I get home.  Well not a whole lot sounds better right now than 11 hours of sleep, so I'm off to bed!  Love and miss you all!