Orientation and First Week

Orientation was very exciting and super fun! Met some really nice people and visited some great places around where we live. The Rocket in Euston is a very chill pub where everyone seemed to be the first week. We had a great time dancing to our favorite tunes and it was great to chat with so many new people over drinks..definitely a great place for students! I can tell it's sort of the NYU in London hotspot. The Nag's Head in Islington was a nice little sports pub...my friends and I got to mingle with the locals and we are definitely planning to go back!

The Nag's Head with some great girls!

One of our orientation events was at Smithy's Wine Bar and Restaurant. We enjoyed some canapes like mini sausages, chicken fingers and cheese biscuits and listened to some great music by a popular DJ in London. Definitely one of the most fun evenings...we headed to The Rocket after a few hours :)

Smithy's Wine Bar and Restaurant

After our first day of classes, we decided to dive in and explore London...and boy did we. We took the Tube to Piccadilly Circus (the Times Square of London) and walked through all of Piccadilly, Theatre District, Oxford Street and Leicester Square. We picked up some hot drinks from Caffe Nero to keep us going and saw a lot of cool stuff! We also got to visit the Topshop here and it was packed even on a Monday afternoon!

Of course, we had to take the cute red telephone booths as a photo-op:

All in all, it's going great here so far! I'm really glad I chose to study abroad :) Definitely a wonderful experience to learn new things and a different culture.

France!

So I'm finally back from France and moved into NYU in London two days ago! It has been a crazy past couple of weeks and the wedding events were absolutely fantastic. It was such a grand wedding with just the most gorgeous venues..have a look at some shots from the traditional French wedding scene:

Here's a picture of a few people from my family before the wedding (I'm 5th from the left):

And here are the bride and groom from both the French and Sri Lankan weddings:

The food was fantastic! First, we had an appetizer buffet with about 20 different hor d'oeuvres like quiche and sausage. That was followed by a 4-course French meal with everything from egg salad, duck, potatoes, cheese and a dessert buffet with about 20 to choose from again! It was great seeing everyone and nice meeting people of my family that I haven't seen before. France was a great place to end the summer in :)