Doin' some things in Africa

DISCLAIMER: this post is very long because it includes everything from the past 2 weeks. Would love if people are interested enough to read, but please don't think I'm a crazy narcissist as I definitely do not expect everyone to be interested in the whole thing! This is just a good way for me to keep track of everything if I want to look back on it later. Posts will definitely get shorter from now on as classes are starting. Enjoy! 2/6/18 Today was more orientation stuff and then chilling, HOWEVER I did discover that there’s an amazing Indian food place literally right next to our apartments so that was pretty awesome. I got one veggie korma dish for $7 and it lasted me for lunch and dinner. Just gonna keep telling you about how cheap my meals are because I really will never be over it. I also went shopping FINALLY for groceries and various necessities and lemme tell you I am getting so spoiled by my living situation. I live right across the street from not one but TWO g...

1/31/18             Jham and I had a mediocre flight to London (they kept the lights on for a longggg time and I was kept awake with the smell of chicken curry being served at 11pm oh well), and then we were off to make the most of our 11 hours there! Omg jk hhahahha we actually did the opposite of make the most of our time. We considered going to Central London for a hot second but when we found out that the train ride there was an hour, we decided to go to the next best place—Hounslow! Think: a less cool Ben Yehuda Street with lots of chain restaurants and nothing exciting. Jham suggested that I describe it that way but honestly now that I’m writing it I see no resemblance to Ben Yehuda Street it was just really mediocre. We trudged along with our 20 lb backpacks for a little while and then decided to stop for lunch in what we thought was a quaint little coffee shop. We figured out after we saw about 3 of the same shop in the airport that we basically ...