Tubular!!

So, this morning began with a rousing ride on London's famed transit system, The Tube. Thankfully, one of my roomies attended a concert with our host mom last night, so she'd already had a sort of "Tube Tutorial." We puzzled a bit before we figured out how to redeem our travel cards for the bus we had to take to the tube station, but eventually we got that. Oh, and incidentally, it was one of those cool double decker red buses! Rock!

Unfortunately some of my friends in the program were not quite so lucky and got quite and extensive tour of London's transit system (2 hours) by misdirection and confusion. Thankfully, in the end, they found their way to our meeting site and there were no emergency phone calls issued.

Its early, so we haven't done much today, but later we'll be getting a guided site seeing tour and a trip to Westminster Abbey.

Yesterday, Amanda (one of my roomies) and I took a walk around Crouch End, where we live, and checked out the local shops and such. There are neat shops everywhere! Food, clothes...everything! The food here is amazing...its so healthy! Everything has no preservatives, artificial coloring, or other weird crap. I've been eating vegetarian while I've been here and boy has it been easy so far. I could totally deal with being a vegetarian in Europe. All the food is labled as "suitable for vegetarians" and is quite easily obtainable. My lunch was a unique...a cream cheese and cucumber sandwich, cheese rice cakes, and an orange mango juice thing. All nice healthy stuff. Yum!

Not to mention all the nifty english words I've been learning.

cheers = goodbye (particularly on the phone)
loo/bath/toilet = bathroom
get on = to get along with
football = soccer
grand = really good

Well, I need to make a quick trip to the ladies loo before we depart for a sightseeing tour, but there will be more to come...promise!

Cheers!