Orientation was interesting. I found out that Chelsea and I are the ONLY Global Experience students here. She said that because of the new Visa regulations, Aubree (our program coordinator) said a lot of people were put off. Anglo-American (that is Global's partner and our placements' contact in London) offers discounted day and weekend trips to Paris and Bruges which we're going to look into. We start classes (!) Thursday. We are taking Debating American Power and Conflict Management and Resolution (sounds fun right?). We'll be taking them at Hult University, which is an international business school in London, not too far from our flat so that's good. After orientation we did a few errands (like bought some hangers for our "closets") and went back to the flat.
We did some more wandering around this afternoon. We saw St. Paul's Cathedral and the Millennium Bridge. We had an EXCELLENT dinner at Pizza Express, which sounds like it would be a fast food place but its actually very nice and reasonably priced. I had a really good thin margarita pizza...yummy!!! Then we walked to see the Tower Bridge which is really cool. After we walked over the Tower Bridge we took the tube back to Farringdon station, which is the station near our flat. We bought Oyster cards for the tube and buses. Its a monthly pass that gives discounted prices on the tube for our flat (1) and work (2) zones (the tube has 6 zones or areas the different lines runs to and tickets are priced according to zone) plus all of the buses that run through London. And it comes in a cute little Ikea i.d. pouch type thing so you can just scan the card to get into the tube station, sort of like an express credit card key chain. Now I'm all ready for starting work tomorrow!!! We were told at orientation that regardless of our placements' dress code we should wear our "smartest" outfit for our first days!!!
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