Eeeearly Sunday morning

Okay, I consider pre-8am to be early, even if other people don't. I'm sitting here waiting for my laundry to finish so that I can put it in the dryer. But this isn't just any Sunday morning waiting for laundry - it's the day before I leave for England! I'm visiting Lauren, a friend from high school who's doing some of her med school rotations in Windsor. I missed my chance to visit her in St. Maarten (ahh... tropical paradise), so I'm going to rainy, cold England instead. :)

The only problem with this whole trip is that I have a project due in my math class the Wednesday after I get back, so I've been scrambling to finish as much of it as I can this weekend so that I don't have to do any work while I'm there. Ugh, I guess I can't really complain because we don't have many regular problem sets in that class, but this isn't very good timing! Stupid grad school - everyone expects you spend holidays (okay, I guess spring break isn't officially a holiday) working on your research instead of getting away from your research. Anyway, woe is me.

So this trip will bring my total time spent abroad (excluding trips to Canada or my 3-hour foray into Tijuana) to about two and a half weeks. When I was a senior in high school my family went to Munich for about four days to visit my older sister who was studying abroad there, and then when I was a junior in college I went to England over spring break (notice a theme here?) to visit a friend who was studying abroad in Cambridge. We went to Paris for a couple days and spent the end of the week in London.

(Apologies for the old camera that I took on the trip. And the fog.)




So I've seen enough to be able sigh knowingly and tell someone else that seeing the Mona Lisa at the Louvre is sort of a disappointment, but I don't actually know anything about... well, anything in Europe.

Well, time to rescue my laundry. Less than 24 hours!