The first month or so, I was so busy taking in all the new culture that I wasn’t all that concerned with whatever was going on back at campus. But when the novelty of London wore off and I no longer felt like a visitor, I became obsessed with UMCP and America. Instead of exploring the city, I spent hours typing emails to my friends about the minutia of my life (formed a great friendship with a guy I only knew marginally back home) and made them tell me the take-for-granted details of theirs (I was obsessed with what new music I was missing.) I would go to classes tired each morning from staying up late into the night on AIM with my friends back home to account for the time change. (Weekends were the worst because no one from home was sitting in front of their computer.)
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