It makes me feel a bit more settled looking at my mostly checked-off to-do list of tasks I had to take care of these past few weeks. I’m still not feeling compleeetely like a Londoner, but progress has been made nonetheless. This past week I’ve had a lot of fun dealings with the bank in trying to set up my UK bank account, and luckily, am almost done with that process; at least I have money in my account now so I will not have to see how many days I can stretch my groceries before completely running out of funds. On that note- meat is so expensive! I am definitely much more of an herbivore these days, though I do miss the little Italian markets with fresh fruits and veggies- Costcutters supermarket isn’t quite the same, but it will have to do.
This week I began doing some reading on creative learning and arts programming, and learned a lot in one of my classes about project management. Unfortunately, our main professor is off at a conference so we’ve had guest lecturers and some of the classes haven’t been the best, but I am still learning a lot and I enjoy the people in my classes. It’s an interesting mix of young people who know what they want to do and are just looking to get all the tools under their belts before they head out to more real-world experience and older people who have been working in related jobs or just as practicing artists and are looking to take their art towards more community arts initiatives. We went out last Tuesday after a long day of class, and if feels good to be building friendships here both with my classmates and with my hallmates.
Last Sunday I also was able to meet up with my friend Liz from home and we had a lovely lunch in the city and then did a quick perusal of the Charles Dickens Museum (a house where he used to live- the most random museum EVER) and had tea (Blackcurrant and Hibiscus tea- very good!) and scones with jam and clotted cream (mmmmm J ). Then on Monday I went out to the Greenwich Picture House with two of my new classmates, Pauline and JQ, which was another lovely evening.
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