Londontown

Well I've been in London for 1.5 weeks, so it is probably time to update my blog! (whoops!).

I arrived on Sat, Jan 28th at 7am.. got to my flat bright and early and unpacked and bascially tried to settle in. Then I met up with my good friend Kathryn - she had the fun job of keeping me awake for the entire day!! We walked around Little Venice (near Paddington) and relaxed at a pub, then watched some TV at her flat and ate take-out Thai food... by the time I crashed into my flat I'd been awake 33 hours.. not too shabby!

Sunday Jan 29th - slept in, then slowly got ready, then met up with my friends Marta and Ben at Covent Garden for some fun catch-up time. We wandered around the market and local area before having some snacks at the Maple Leaf pub (the Canadian one!). 

Monday - Friday of my first week back at work was a difficult one. Not that I was overly tasked, but that I was dealing with jet-lag, school issues and some of those classic 'what do i want to do with my life' questions.  I've got such a fun life set up here in London, part of me is rather tempted to set up shop here for a few years...but on the other hand I'm fully aware of how much work is ahead of me to work properly in Canada, and I may as well get going on all that..  so I've been torn considering it all.  

Socially my first week was farily quiet, which was good as jet lag was being mean to me!

This past weekend I did quite a mix of tourism, shopping and hanging out. Explored the 'City', which historically was the Roman town, and is now the big financial area of town. Did some shopping in their newest shopping center, and bascially walked a LOT.  Sunday also involved tourism - saw the Chinese New Year festivites in Trafalgar Square, and wandered around Notting Hill a bit - Portobello Market.  Went to a movie at the Electric Cinema, which apparently is famous. Oh, and Sat night went out dancing with Marta & co for a friends birthday.

This week I'm feeling more on top of my life, which is nice. The bad news is that, as usual, I've caught a cold.. London seems determined to gift me with colds every time I come here. So I've been taking it fairly easy in the evenings, and surviving the work days.

Have some fun adventures coming up - Kathryn and I have been scheming! I'll post as things happen, so check back!  Will also upload to Flickr when I get a chance - can't do that from my flat, so have to do it 'sneakily' from work... (shhh!!).

Hope all is well with all!
L :)