Nearing the end...

...of the semester, of my sanity, but not quite the end of waiting for London.
I have been having anxiety issues with my classes this semester, which have been both helped and hurt by the knowledge that I'll be in London in the fall. It's good to have something else to think about when a class isn't going so well, but it's also a source of procrastination, since I sometimes daydream about it. I'm hoping that the fact that we'll all be taking the same classes together will discourage procrastination when I'm actually there, since everyone will know when I should be working on something. :)

I was going to write a longer post today, but I just looked at the time and decided to save it for tomorrow. Here's a teaser: general study abroad meeting today, London meeting next week, things I need to get, plans for the summer, expectations for the fall.

Anticipation

Since my last post, I've turned in my $300 deposit, which basically just tells Hendrix that I really am serious about this. I've also gotten an email about our first info meeting, which will mostly be about Dr. King's course. Three courses are taught by professors at the university we'll be at, and the fourth will be taught by Dr. King (the fourth class is the only one that changes year to year). So far he's said that he wants to teach a politics course that somehow incorporates British literature; the meeting is to get our feedback. It'll also be my first time to meet most of the people who'll be going with me. If everyone that received the email does actually go, there will be 12 of us total, 3 of whom I already know (Kate, Laura, and Hillary), but not that well. It looks like the guy:girl ratio is 4:8, not that this is of any importance other than for housing (which we'll find out more about later this semester).

My file of stuff to do in London (places to go to, events, and lots of links) has reached 750 words so far. I know I won't be able to do everything, but I'm sure I'll have a lot of fun trying!

Dreams

I'm starting to have really odd dreams about London. The only one I can remember clearly involved me being roommates with the girl who plays Draco in A Very Potter Musical, and for some reason we both worked at Quizno's. I don't even know if they have Quizno's in London.

Well aaaaanyway, that ties into my next point - I realized last week that the Deathly Hallows premiere will be happening while I'm in London! I found the page where all Leicester Square events are posted (here), so maybe I'll go camp out for a few hours just to say I did. Actual tickets appear to start around £200, unfortunately.

I find it odd that there has never been any mention of the name of the university/college I'll be studying at. The Hendrix-in-London info page includes a link to the University of London union, but that seems to be the name for a large group of colleges. I don't suppose it really matters since we're all going to (technically) be enrolled at Hendrix, but it seems like something they'd have told us! I'm sure this will be cleared up next semester, along with the other things I'm wondering about (particularly cellphones and bank accounts, at the moment).

And So It Begins!

I was accepted to participate in the Hendrix-in-London program today! I keep looking back at the letter to make sure I didn't read it incorrectly. The first person I told was my mom, but as soon as I'm done writing this post, I'm going to Facebook to see if I can find anyone else who is going.
This is so exciting! Now the hardest part will be the waiting (and concentrating on the classes I'm taking now and next semester). Of course, now I don't have to worry about whether I'm going or not. The info sessions are next semester, so I don't have to think about it at all for now (but of course I will)!
I may post more before next semester, but I don't really plan to. I already have a long list of things to do while I'm there, and I'm sure I'll continue adding to it. I'll wait to share it for a while, unless something comes up before next semester that makes it relevant.