Work today. More of the same: scanning maps. Although I did get some time to work on my essay in between scans. After work I went to the grocery store to get some supplies for my mini-thanksgiving dinner tomorrow. Back at the flat I put in about 2 hours of work on my essay and doubled its length - pretty good progress. Just as I was getting into bed I spilled water all over myself, the bed and my iphone. Luckily everything was fine. The iphone was still func...

Home in one month!!! I am very excited. Of course it's going to be bittersweet but I am really looking forward to getting back to the familiar, better prices, comfy house, snow and most of all, my family. So my plan to get up early and work on my essay of course didn't happen. Once I did get up I went to NYU to print out all my boarding passes and tickets for Dublin this weekend. Once done with that I did have a little extra time to work on my essay. Class to...

I spent the morning tidying up my room, buying groceries and doing a couple hours work on my essay before heading to Paddington Station to meet up for class. Clas was pretty cool. We looked at train stations and tunnels all day, spending a lot of time on the H'Smith/Circle/Metropolitan lines. We looked at Paddington, Kings Cross and St. Pancras stations before going to Rotherhithe on the south bank to go to the Brunel museum. The Brunel museum was overall a sm...

Incredibly uneventful day. I tried to work on one of my essays but had zero motivation and focus. so instead I spent the majority of the day laying in bed and watching tv.

More sight seeing today. We got up, had breakfast, got all our crap together and trekked up the hill (with our bags since we checked out of the hostel) to Edinburgh Castle. This castle is pretty cool but a little confusing to get around. We didn't get a map (not really sure where to get one) and there was no obvious path throughout. It resembled Dover (both are military castles) and Windsor, in that you walked around outside to different buildings and sections ...