School Days

I loaned $40,000 bucks to study over here and I write two sentences about the UK school experience yesterday, I don't think Sallie Mae would have fronted the funds if they saw I was more interested in snogging than getting an education.  The UK school system baffels me, a 70 is considered an A, yet it is possible to get up to 100.  Why the hell wouldn't they just score on a 100 point scale, it makes no sense!  I'm siding with the American grading system on this on.  I have spent 7 years in college and the last 3 I hated every class.  I picked my major at 18 and couldn't have been more excited.  The past 3 years and god knows how many thousands of bucks later, I only showed up because I had to.  I can't even remember the last time I was excited about a class (besides Dr. Millen, but he was hot, different excitement), I am actually excited about my major again.  Shame on Drexel and my job for making me burnt out about event planning....

I plan on marking today as the first day that I felt like I would make it here, after class I had lunch with people from all over the world (3 Americans, a German, 2 Spanish, a couple of people from the Netherlands, and 2 Brits), we were all in similar situations...missing home and trying to make it in a city that is not our own.   The wonderful thing about Event Marketing majors is that no one is quiet or antisocial, it's impossible to be so.  Ashley from MD,USA is having an Welcome to the USA party on friday to which we were all invited, since she has very few friends of course.  On Thursday, there is an international students party, we're all going, if it sucks we are bailing and getting drunk together at a bar.  I feel like I can be friends with these people, which is an amazing relief.  I walked out of class to 3 texts and actually double booked myself for Thursday, I have the international students party and the Americans that I met in Cambridge, invited me to the bar the same night...yay for people to hang out with!  I'm going to wait and see which I want to go to, but I'm pretty sure I am going to play with people my own age.  With my classmates, I am not the cougar, thank god!

As much as I am starting to love London, I can't say I don't think about my friends back home all of the time.  I miss them and my family more than I ever thought I would.  Skype is an amazing tool, but in some ways it makes it so much worse, I can't look at my best friends without feeling some kind of sadness that I'm not pounding beers or downing a bottle of wine having heart to hearts with them.  But thanks to them and my family, I had enough balls to get my ass accross the pond.  

Since no one is here to tell me I am being a douche, I have no idea how to react to situations.  Barrister bribed me with free dinner last night...I went over to watch him cook for me and watch Glee.  I have the ultimate defense if he pisses me off....I will tell him how the season ends!   Today he called to check in on how my day was, cute to most women but not me.  Once he told me he gave me my own ringtone (The Queen and I, Gym Class Heroes....a song that I said I wished played each time I walked down the street) I got a smidge freaked.  Of course it didn't help that last night he told me he made reservations for VDay already and I happened to see an email from a florist for the dreaded day.  There must be something wrong with me, most people would eat this shit up, I on the other hand feel the need to bang other dudes to reaffirm the fact that I am single....well that and he was hot, but still there has to be something wrong with me.  Who gets freaked when a guy makes plans fot VDay, I would have killed for that last year.....