First British rain!!

Finally! It rains in London!!

A robot on campus.....

So there was a giant purple robot outside my window today he was big a purple and he played music and said undecipherable things about recycling or something. His head came right up to my window.

#collegelife

Remember to recycle kiddies. 

Thriftin' and eatin' (all the important things...)

East End thrift shop today with Rena! About a 20 min. walk from campus, this places was hard to find (it's down a little back alley off of Mile End) but totally worth it once we got there! 10 quid to fill a bag, and fill we did! I got two pairs of jean overalls, a white leather skirt, a leather jacket, and a flannel lined jean vest. And I even convinced Rena to buy a little jean vest :)

The place was FILLED with leather jackets and jean overalls! Why? Who knows!

Stuff a bag for 10 quid (this took some finangleing, but fortunately Rena is the queen of fitting into tight places...)

My FABULOUS jean vest lined with super cozy flannel.

Next, it was off to Brick Lane for some bagels from the famous Beigel Bake on Brick Lane! It took much wandering and much more walking to finally make it to Brick Lane, but we stumbled on the cutest little neighborhood of vintage and thrift stores on Chesire Road! We must go back to explore!

The cute store fronts and graffiti art on Chesire Road off Brick Lane.

Beigel Bake itself, however, is AMAZING. It's literally life changing. I had a bagel with salted beef and mustard and it was indescribably wonderful. Rena and I loved our bagels so much, after chilling in a nearby cafe, we came back for a second round to bring home.
(Funny story: after buying our second round of bagels, we discovered that there are actually TWO Beigel Bakes, two store fronts apart on Brick Lane. We are actually not sure if we went to the right one or if they are the same owners or what, but we will have to go back to see if this other Beigel Bake is just as amazingly wonderful...)

Beigel Bake! (The right one??)

Look at it. It's perfect. It's literally perfect. 

Rena in the adorably rustic Kahaila Cafe nearby!

First Cornish Pasty!

Free in the quad outside my dorm :) Happy Thursday!

First British beer!

First British beer (and first legal beer) last night at The New Globe with Rena was a Fosters!

The bartender kinda looked at us funny when we asked for a recommendation...

But when the bar closed he let us carry it out in plastic cups. Surprising, since I'm pretty sure that's illegal in the US!

At the beach

Met a few of my flat mates tonight, they all seem so old, but they are just 19. Seems like they age so much faster than Americans do though!

One of them, Matt is from Ireland. But when I told him about living on the easy coast and being a big beach person, he told me he didn't really understand what you were supposed to do at the beach. Like, just sit there and be cold? So funny how the culture is different!