I thought this would be the easiest way to let people know what's going on over here, without repeating myself or sending out tons of emails. So here I am.

1) My roommate isn't here yet, and won't be for another 10 days or so. Room to myself! I am hoping that she decides not to come, as bad as that sounds.

My little room. (The bathroom is to the right of the wardrobes -- tiny little thing shoved into the corner, but at least I have my own!)

2) I live on the 9th floor of the IES Residence Hall in Chelsea, so I get a nice view of central London. I think I can see Westminster Abbey/Houses of Parliament, but I'm not quite sure.

Basic view from my window. The building that I think is Westminster/Parliament is off to the right, but I don't think you can see it in this picture. Facing east. (Note the mysterious flight of stairs that lead to nowhere in the center of the picture -- still haven't figured out what that is, haha.)

3) Prince Harry was seen at a night club called Raffles on Thursday night (according to the London Lite -- and everything in the London Lite is true, of course). Raffles is less than a block away from our Res Hall. Very exciting!

4) Everyone is really, really nice. The IES staff, the other IES students, almost every Brit I've run into. I love it; I rather expected some anti-American sentiment (from the locals, I mean), or at least some anti-tourist sentiment, but I haven't run into any. It's great.