Last week was good. The first part was normal, just work etc., but I got Thanksgiving off and I had a great long weekend. Thursday morning I went grocery shopping and there was just this holiday feeling in the air even if they don't celebrate Thanksgiving here. It's probably just me, but it felt very fresh and bustly and Christmasy. For dinner, three of my flatmates and I went to Professor Vinter's house, which was just great. I had wanted to make sure that I didn't just spend Thanksgiving hanging out like a normal day, and going to Vinter's worked out just right. She provided the turkey and everyone brought a side dish or a dessert. I made dad's sweet potatoes and they turned out pretty well, considering I was doing it from memory sans recipe, except I got a brown sugar/sweet potato stain on one of my sweatshirts (who knew that was even possible? I didn't). There were about 30 students at dinner, we were all crouching in corners with our plates, but it was a really fun time.
I'm thankful for a lot of things this year. I'm in London, having the best time, I have a new healthy beautiful baby niece, my family's all doing well (despite the obvious crushing missing of me), I have great friends, and I'm going home soon at (I think) just the right time. A good year.
Friday morning I went shopping with Erin. We had the best time shopping and being silly, it was really fun. I had wanted to buy something cool for myself before I go back to the states, a coat was what I had in mind, so we shopped along Oxford St for a while. I must have driven Erin crazy because I'm not good at committing to buying things; I shop and look and pine, but don't buy. I ended up getting a pair of really cool chucks ("Chucks would put you at the next level of cool" -Ben), but no coat. Well, I went out the next morning and bought a coat we'd looked at, red wool, and a super cute hat. Saturday I also went to Portabello Rd. Market with Beth and got some general stuff for me and not for me. Both of these days I didn't get very much done on my paper that's due on Wed. grrr.
Sunday was good, second to last church! Study Abroad really is a weird thing, that we go somewhere completely new and establish a life there, but then bag it up and head home after only a few months. Very odd. Overall, though, I must admit that I do want to go home; I had a long conversation with Ben Saturday night and it reminded me how much I miss him. Of course I'm going to miss London, and I'd love more time here without school work keeping me from everything I want to do, but home will be really nice.
Miss you guys,
See you soon!
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