Settling down

Ok, so. I had another extreme homesickness day on Monday. I cured this by finding some Americans who had nothing to do and making them hang out with me. You don't even know how outgoing I am now, guys. I'm shameless. You have to be. We went to the student bar, because yeah, we have one. It's called the waterfront and it's on the fifth floor of the student union overlooking the river. The real estate that this school owns is insane, honestly.

Yesterday we Americans insisted on having a tea party. Our friend Tom humored us and found us crumpets, biscuits, and hot crossed buns. He even made our tea for us because we are totally clueless about such things. It was hilarious and so fun. As we were in the middle of our tea party acting like total fools, our new roommate showed up. I think she thought we were absolutely mad for a few minutes but we had a nice chat and she seems really cool. She is a german grad srudent and and english major, woot.

Today we all went over to St. James's park and hung around for a while trying our best to teach each other rugby and football. Ok, maybe the rest of them did that; I mostly just took pictures of geese and squirrels. Anyway, it was a nice relaxing day. I think we are all starting to calm down a little bit and things don't seem quite so overwhelming. It feels like we're real friends now, and not just overly friendly aquaintences.

I still don't know if I'm brave enough to stay home tonight while everyone goes clubbing, but I am seriously considering it, and that's a start.