So close.

It's really weird to think that I'm almost done with my semester in London.  It only really sunk in a few days ago that in a very short period of time (two final exams, one final paper, one weekend, and a few goodbyes from now) I will have to go back home.  It's actually a mixture of good feelings and bad feelings about leaving the UK.  While I am very sad to go, I am very happy to go back and be home and see my family and friends and eat my American (and REAL Mexican) food and have Christmas and all that fun stuff.  But I am sad to go.  I will definitely miss London.  A LOT.  I wish I could go back home for a little while, and then just turn around and come right back here.  But that is silly.  Here's a preliminary list of things that I will miss when I leave.  In the ACCENT Center Departure Guide (the actually very useless guide for how to leave the program...), it says that we may experience "Reverse Homesickness" upon returning to the states.  This might be true, because even though it sounds really cheesy, I have sort of in fact created my own little home here over the past four months.  Oh yeah, here's my list:

Things I am going to miss when I say bye bye to London...(version 1)

1.  Pret, and all pre-packaged sandwiches in general.

2.  Flavoured crisps, especially the salt and vinegar ones.  

3.  Good white bread.  It's better here.

4.  Teatime in the mornings with B&M.

5.  Riding the tube with my iPod on.

6.  Riding the 73 by myself, after a lovely afternoon of shopping at Dorothy Perkins.

7.  Realizing that I know exactly how to get home on the tube without even looking at the map of the underground.

8.  Super Noodles (and yes, I do realize a lot of the stuff on this list is food...I really enjoy food)

9.  Cider

10.  "x" at the end of text messages from Ann

11.  The pound.

12.  Primark

13.  The cold.  I actually really like it.

14.  Walking home from class when it's just getting dark and cold and I'm all bundled up and warm and know I'll be home soon to my warm room

15.  BAM! (but I'll see them again soon I know)

16.  Mike  (but I'll see him again soon I know)

17.  Going to the Angel with the girls and drinking Rose wine.

18.  Tortilla burritos

19.  The London Paper and The London Lite

20.  More to come...

I will make this list longer later, I am sure.  But, for now, I'm tired so I gotta go to bed. :)

Piglet and Giblet in London!

So last Tuesday while I was sitting in Starbucks, trying to focus and get work done on my paper that was due on Thursday...I was met with a very special surprise.  I was sitting there, minding my own business, when all of a sudden I looked up and Mike was standing there smiling at me. I was soo surprised because he should have been at work, but I just figured that he took the day off to surprise me. Then, after I finished hugging him hello, I looked behind him and was even MORE surprised to see my little Piglet standing right there! In Starbucks! In London! And she was laughing sooo hard, because I looked like a total idiot, because I thought that I must be dreaming or something.  And all of my friends were sitting there laughing, and Mike too, because they ALL knew! They all knew that Annica was coming...everyone except me of course!! hahahahah. Because I'm very slow and totally and completely and totally oblivious. But it was a very very wonderful surprise, and apparently Annica had been planning it for about a month now, and everyone kept it from me. It was sooo lovely. She left on Saturday, but we had a wonderful time frolicking about London. I miss her. I love my Piglet.