Greetings from England! Day 1

Current date and time: June 22, 2002 11:08 PM
After over 14 hours of flying, I'm finally in ENGLAND!
It didn't really hit me that I'm in the UK until I got out of the Gatwick Airport and onto the train going to Brighton. I wasn't that excited leaving the US because I was super tired from few days before I left.

I almost missed my flight from Newark to London because the wrong gate was printed on my boarding pass. Good thing I checked the screen!

I like Continental Airlines now. First of all, they fed us breakfast [not a snack] of egg and cheese bagels, fruit yogurt, and fruit on a DOMESTIC FLIGHT [SFO to Newark). They fed us dinner and breakfast going to London. Most importantly, they did not lose my luggage.

I got to London around 7 AM. No problems with immigration, that's a plus. I waited for Kathie and Jeany for about 1-2 hours because we were gonna go to school together. We made new friends from the airport since a lot of us were all going to the same place. We pretty much took over the trains going to Brighton with our giant amounts of luggage.

My "flat" is not exactly on campus...it's near the entrance, but it's right behind the train station and right in front of a bus stop. Jeany, Kathie and I ended up being flatmates! hahahah RANDOM! Our rooms are all right next to each other too. Our flat is on the ground floor [not 1st floor...that's the floor after ground]. We got lost trying to get out because all the hallways look alike hahaha.

The campus is nice...everything is built with brick from the 1960s. Lots of trees [and evil sea gulls!] It's way smaller than UCSB...the walk from my apartment to the end of campus is like 10 minutes.

On public transportation: the train going from Brighton to Falmer [the stop for the school] is really nice...there are tables in the train. The seats in the trains in general all face each other.
Brighton still uses the double decker buses. They are DANGEROUS! hahahah It's hard trying to get down the steps in a hurry because the steps are steep.
Lots of things happened today but I can't write them right now because I'm really tired and I have to wake up early for orientation.
Pictures to come!