Its been a week, right?

So another week of adventures in London, but this time I'll start from today and work my way back.

So this morning after much waiting and agony I finally got my LSAT scores back. 168/180  96%

Basketball is coming along pretty well, we have our first game tomorrow, so there might be an extra post with the results of that.  But only if we win.

Sunday I went to my first Premier League Football match. Fulham v. Everton. Fulham let us down in the last few minutes but overall the game was an amazing experience. Pictures...

Friday I went to an amazing salsa club south of the river. 4 rooms going simultaneously with different styles of dancing. No pictures...

And then there was school, lots and lots of school.  Which is going well. So yeah, that's me. In London.

I've been busy. Sort of.

So its been over a week since I posted, obviously not a good start.  But its been an exciting week full of stories that I shall soon recount. Things I've done since the last post:

Go to a consultancy fair.
Have a picnic in Lincoln Inn Fields
Wander around a cemetery in North London
Eat a bite of sticky toffee pudding
Salsa
Sat in on a law class
Heard a lecture by Bill Bratton (former NYPD and LAPD chief)

And those are just the highlights.  Let's see if I can attach pictures...

Karl Marx was buried in the cemetery we visited

Fancy old British House (near the Jane Austen scene in Notting Hill)

A view of London from Parliament Hill

Mounted patrol near my dorm.

Ninja assassins on my basketball court.  Okay they're just practicing with swords, but you never really know what for.

Okay, I think that's enough for now.  Next week should be even more exciting as my classes get more involved, I'm going to a premier league football game, and I get my LSAT scores.

Failure and Success

So good news first, I made the basketball team at LSE. hooray...  Downside: We may be in a league a bit over our heads.  Sounds like we might be playing teams that actually take this sport a bit seriously, and even recruit for it.  Our only hope is that all the real athletes are out on the football field.

In other news there's been a damning shock to my once perfect schedule.  I'm not allowed to take the Econometrics class I want (subject of a long rant if you're interested) so now I have to find a replacement class.  I can't do any more poli sci courses overseas, so its either a higher level econ class or maybe a law class.  Fairly narrow options, but still a lot of classes to sift through in the next week or so.

That's it for now, hopefully next time I can report on my exploits in the kitchen.

Orientation Week

So this week was really hectic, hence the lack of posts.  It was a much more intense version of orientation at Emory, mostly because of the half hour walk I made to and from campus nearly four times a day.  But its all good, I got a pan and a spatula now so I can cook every now and then and lectures start Monday and they should definitely be interesting.

As an added bonus the teacher for my Political Theory class is also my adviser so we should get to know each other fairly well.  Now Pictures!