I finally made it back to the UK. Once again, it was horrible luck that plagued me while traveling back. My flight from Syracuse to JFK was canceled on Sunday, Dec. 31st, but my flight was still scheduled out of JFK on IcelandAir for that night! So my mom, younger sister and I drove 6 hours to NYC. We got half an hour away from the airport when I was warned via Twitter that the flight was most likely canceled. And by the time we got to JFK, it was. It was also starting to blizzard. So we left JFK in the blizzard to drive 7 miles to the nearest hotel with a vacancy. On the way, we got a flat tire. We ended up waiting in a Target parking lot for 2 hours for AAA to come and replace it. It was still a blizzard. By the time we got the hotel, but Aunt, who is a travel agent, found out I had been rebooked for Tuesday night: 48 hours later. Lame.
Two days later, I spent 12 hours at JFK until my flight left. I got a passport stamp for Iceland at 9:30am local time and it was still pitch black! Crazy. Then I got to London again!
Bertie met me at the airport and we took the tube to King’s Cross where we got our Orange Wednesday 2-4-1 deal at Pizza Express. I was so exhausted that I dozed off on the 15 minute tube ride from King’s Cross to Bertie’s house in Highgate afterward. I then crashed for a few hours until Bertie got bored and woke me up to play table tennis.
We spent the last few days watching far too many films, going to the cinema, playing lots of monopoly and table tennis, watching BBC iPlayer too much and doing nothing productive. We went out to a hill to watch the London fireworks on New Year’s Eve, which was nice and relaxing.
Anyway, now I’m back in Leeds. Sitting in my room and pretending I’ve started revising for my two exams or writing my 3000 word essay. I don’t really like the “exams after Christmas” thing. My mind is just not in the game. Luckily, my international politics class and my geography class overlap A LOT so while I write my politics essay I will also be studying for my geography exam. In theory.
I have to work out my schedule for next semester still. Having a change of advisers really messed up my year abroad in terms of the “study” part, but it should work out. It will. I was assured I could graduate in December if I did a full year and I will.
Oh! I’m also using a site called DailyBooth now. You take a webcam picture every day/however often you like and it loads it to your DailyBooth profile. It’s quite handy for a quick journal entry and all that: www.dailybooth.com
Location: Leeds, UK
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I must say that BBC is the best broadcasting service.