orange, oysters and oasis?

Alright. Sit Back, grab a pint (or a cup of coffee), and settle in. It's going to be a long update, seeing as it's been a week - we have some catching up to do.

Monday, left the cousins to head to JFK. the flight was crazy cool- Virgin Atlantic, you rock. movies, tv, radio, video games...wow. We were picked up at the airport in Heathrow and taken by bus to Richmond's Kensington campus. We all moved in, settled in a bit, then began the week of festivities.
In a nutshell so far:
*Kensington Walking Tour (we live in the most expensive part of London, very posh, right across from Kesington Palace, where Princess Di lived and seconds from Kensington High St...major shopping area.)
*Imperial College down the road, and had a drink at the pub, which i mentioned before

Wednesday-
*Overall Orientation of the Program with different speakers and staff introductions
*Computer Orientation (SOOO not helpful, obviously)
*Trip and Activity sign ups for the semester (which will be mentioned soon...)
*Resident meetings (all the interns are living on the fourth floor btw...the penthouse shall we say, i think i have a curse of the "top floor" syndrome.)
*Jack the Ripper Walking Tour - way fun and interesting. jacky, you were a sick and twisted man.

Thursday
*Internship meeting, met our supervisors and realized I'm going to have no free time with my life the next 3.5 months but what else is new. thats how i like it.
*The things to join and trip sign ups, for like Gyms and potential upcoming events like this awesome club called Fabric
*Bus Tour of London - way awesome. FINALLY got to see some touristy places. got to hop out at St. Paul's Cathedral and the Tower Bridge (commonly mistaken for London Bridges...please, no singing.) Pictures to soon come.
*Night in the West End - went to see Avenue Q with some of the girls. stopped at a pub across the way for some dinner. HUGE sandwiches. good food for once. the play was over the top awesome. it was Hysterical. so raunchy at some points, but so funny. (and no, i did not call jeff marx up. i didn't really want him relentlessly offering to buy me a burger, and then never leaving ... ever. haha.)

Today
*Library orientation...boo. welcome back to work at URI pretty much.
*Internship Interview with my school supervisors - okay, wow. i've been so clueless and nervous up to this point because I have had absolutely NO idea what i was in for, what i would be doing. Apparently, next week i will be interview with The Royal Thames Yacht Club. Yeah. I'm siked and scared sh-izzle-less. AND. right after my interview they have invited me to their cocktail party... ! WHAT !
my supervisors are going to help me decide what to wear, and i'm going to ask them for advice on how to act, and all that stuff. I'm clueless. so any tips of the trade would be fantastic. They said this is a very very posh, upscale place, and i would be working along side the event coordinator, which is going to be amazing. their first intern ever came from richmond last year, and i read her final paper today and she sounds very similiar to me, and had a fabulous experience. i can't wait. but im so scared.
*Went to Kensington Palace this afternoon to see the remembrances for Princess Dianna. Very touching and very nice. Very peaceful. Reminded me slightly of the wall of flowers covering the outside of St. Paul's Cathedral down at Ground Zero.
*Pub Crawl - Really fun, very tired, no time to sit and relax to have a drink, kind of "you have 30 minutes to meet us back here to continue the tour, on your mark get set go!" but still fun. and I GOT TO SEE THE GLOBE. yes, i'm a geek. whatever. and i almost walked into not one, but two poles. and this was before my krista-sized-halfpint. good times.

now we came back here, and i'm dead tired. its almost 12:30 and i',m off to portabello market tomorrow. woot!!

missing you all, will update with details on living/food/friends soon. Hugs.

<3 Krista