i bloody miss london

i'm too tired to give you guys the full london updates right now (plus, i dont have my pictures uploaded yet, and i use those as an outline for what i want to write about), but i'll just give you the highlights.

--i forgot how easy it is to be in a country where i speak the native tongue fluently. i haven't been in a place where i know what every sign says in 2.5 months. i felt like being extra chatty with the brits (who were quite friendly and seemed to enjoy my talkativeness). i wonder if i'll be more outgoing/jokey with strangers when i go home, just because i can.

--london was fully dressed in christmas attire! oxford street--the big shopping avenue--was decked out in lights draped over the store windows and across the street, with the phrase, "have an enchanted christmas" written in lights. in that kind of bright environment, it's hard not to. paris needs to catch up with this christmas thing. i've begun by putting christmas music on my ipod (okay, so thanksgiving hasn't come yet...shoot me).

--my fave part of london: a tour we took of the bbc television centre. i think. though i loved the city itself, and all the people who were in it. bah, i can't pick.


here's a side note that's not about london at all: it's cold in my room, i turned the heater on (which i might have done wrong, because i've never used it and there are no directions). now it smells like the heater does when you turn it on for the first time. christmas must be fast approaching.