So today has been...interesting?
This morning Nekol and I had to wake up earlier than we had originally planned because maintenance men were supposed to be coming around to all the rooms in the building to check fire alarms to make sure they worked. Well, the paper said the checks would be starting at 10 am and going throughout the day. So even though we woke up at 9:30 the gentlemen didn't come around until about 12:30 or so. Not complaining...just would have liked to been able to sleep till eleven.
Today was Nekol's first day to relax (mine being yesterday) and all she did was watch movies on her iTunes and toodled around her room. The internet in the building went on the fritz a little bit before noon and Nekol can't even sign onto her internet now. The internet is connecting but she can't log into KeySurf to actually look at websites. We believe someone just doesn't want her to watch Desperate Housewives.
I went to Baker St station to meet up with my scavenger group that was predetermined by the University. We were supposed to meet up at 1 so we could go ahead and do the photo scavenger hunt but one of the girls didn't show. So after politely waiting for 35 minutes past, the other three girls and I headed to Starbucks where we all got something and went downstairs to chat.
This is something else I am having to get used to while here in England. They have seating downstairs. Where I live, the water table is so high that you can dig three feet and two and a half of it will be filled with water. Also, here you can have dine in drinks at Starbucks and they give you mugs to drink out of. Save the world and all that with less cardboard.
The girls and I chatted for about an hour and we talked about Halloween, Guy Fawkes Day, traveling, Germany, Japan, and several other things that are fleeing from my mind at this instant. However, it was a wonderful talk and I feel like I got to know my group a lot better doing this than going on a scavenger hunt. We did, however, plan to meet early tomorrow morning to try and do the scavenger hunt again. If the girl does not show up then we will do the hunt without her and turn in what we can. I doubt we'll be contenders for the final prize for a weekend getaway to some exotic UK destination but hey, at least we tried and we weren't quitters.
After we disbanded when finished with coffee, I called Nekol and told her to meet me up at the New Cavendish campus and we would buy our textbooks from that bookstore. I got to the campus in no time at all and went ahead to look in the bookstore since I didn't see Nekol around. I looked in the rather tiny space and came across The Anthology of English Lit Vol 1 and 2. I needed a Vol B and not a Vol 2. I could understand if she called it the same thing but I flipped through the 2nd edition and it was much later in the time period than what we were studying so I flipped through Vol 1 and it's what we would be studying so I was rather confused. I had a lady look on the computer and she said 1 and 2 were all she had record of. I thanked her for her time and headed to sit down and wait for Nekol.
I waited for Nekol for a little over 30 minutes before heading over to the Polytechnic building thinking she had just skipped coming to New Cavendish. I called her before I left and it rang before cutting off; I was rather confused by this and called her a couple of more times and it wouldn't connect at all. I thought maybe Nekol has turned off her phone and is already in the library. I head over to the library and spend a while in there before realizing how late it is and going back to the entrance of the Polytechnic building to talk to Nekol.
Actually getting ahold of Nekol this time around, she told me she was at the New Cavendish Campus (NCC) and was looking around the bookstore. I started heading back but was rather engrossed in setting up my free voicemail to make it sound like my voice since, as the kind lady automated voice told me, people would be more likely to leave a voicemail if they heard my name. So while I was setting up my voicemail I turned down a street too early and veered away from NCC and was heading towards Tottenham Court. Realizing, after ten minutes, that I had gone the wrong way I pulled out my subway to see that I was heading south and just turned around to head back to my original location. I was then back at NCC soon after that and Nekol recounted to me what took her so long.
Before I continue on, if you have a tube map available...you should get it, it'll make a lot more sense and you may even laugh.
We live near Lambeth North Station which is about five stops from Baker Street which you can jump onto eastbound Circle line to get to Great Portland Street which is near the NCC. Now, instead of doing this easy twenty minute ride, Nekol decides to get off at Embankment, two stops too early, and to ride the Circle line all the way to Great Portland Street. She spends almost forty minutes on the tube, even managing to strike up an in depth conversation with a fellow American named Bobby. Even now, as she watches me type this, she tries to rationale how what she did was alright and justified. I'm not saying how she road the tube was wrong...I'm just saying I can't help but laugh.
Well once caught up we went back to the Polytechnic building to check out books from the library. I pulled maybe 10 books off the shelves and found out that I had pulled about 7 reference books, oops. I kind of don't pay attention sometimes. Anyways, it was after five when we were leaving the building so we had to use self check out machines to check out our books. Another new fandangle contraption for Nekol and I to figure out. Apparently, you open the front flap to reveal a barcode, slide the spine of the book into the v shaped holder and slide it all the way to the end, under a red barcode reader light, till it hits the back of the holder before pulling it off the holder. It took me several tries to figure this out but soon I did it and was rather proud of myself.
Nekol and I then left and walked the half mile to the tube station in near torrential rain. Normally I exaggerate about the weather but not when it comes to this...honestly. We get down into the tube and are thankful, for once, that the tube is so hot compared to outside. Getting onto the train, we head back to Lambeth North station. We don't head straight home though, oh no, we head up to Lower Marsh street to go shopping at the Iceland I found earlier.
It's actually quite nice having a nifty little convenience grocery store so close. Iceland isn't as expansive as Tesco, Asda, or Sainsburys but it does well with what we needed and the deals were rather nice too. Nekol got three frozen dinners for 5lb. When we were through with all that, we checked out and walked back home only to realize we still needed silverware so we will be hitting up a Tesco or so soon enough.
That was pretty much our day but I have something else to say before I end this post....
Today is my birthday.
I am 21.
I. Am. So. Excited.
I can't wait to tell you about my birthday day!
<3,
Dre
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