A real update from real internet

MY INTERNET WORKS IN MY ROOM!
By some miracle, Nido finally loves me.
Let me explain about Nido. It is similar to a dorm, only we have kitchenettes and and bathrooms in each room. It is all students, going to different colleges, (not necessarily London Met), and they are not all international. It is crawling with security guards (I actually haven't seen them as much lately), and you need to scan your ID every time you enter or leave the building. We were promised awesome things on the website, a screening room to watch free movies on a big screen, a cafe, fitness center, etc. There's not a lot finished in reality, and the internet didn't work until just today. (Here's the site http://www.nidolondon.com/ ) Yes, it's a brand spanking new place, so it could be expected that not everything would be up to par. However, it did open back in September or so, so they've housed students and have been open for months with half the features non-existant. I'm not really complaining that much, it's a great place to live to meet great people, I just wish everything was completed.
The unfinished stuff has no date that it will be ready by, either, there's always construction guys all over the place.

The 29th - 31st we had orientation from 10:30 til about 3:00, with lunch breaks. It really wasn't that bad. Afterwards we (the people I've met and I) would always go do something. I've barely been in my room until tonight. We went to Covent Garden and walked to Leicester Square and Piccadilly Circus (http://www.tfl.gov.uk/assets/downloads/Standard-Tube-map.gif), they are areas well-known for their nightlife. We ate at an Italian Place where I had really crappy spaghtetti (no flavor, um, flavour). We went to Camden Market, which was really sweet, a huge market with cheap stuff. (http://www.camdenlockmarket.com/flash_main.htm)

Yesterday we (all the study abroad students at London Met) went on a bus tour of London and a boat tour on the Thames. Neither was super amazing, it was raining and there was lots of traffic. Afterwards we went to an Austrailian pub called Walkabout. There was live music there. Then we went to a club/pub called O'Neills (http://www.oneills.co.uk/home.php) which was really fun, with good music. We were out late, so the tube stopped running when we wanted to go home, so we had to take a bus which was really confusing, but we figured it out and made it back. I like the tube a lot better, it's so easy and convenient.

Today we went to both campuses (London Met has 2), North and City. I have classes at both, and North Campus buildings are pretty close together, but City Campus is much more confusing. We probably wandered around for 3 hours trying to find everything. We ate dinner by King's Cross (my neighborhood) at a pub called the Rocket. 2 meals for 6.50 pounds, and there were 4 of us, so it worked out really well. Afterwards we went to Tesco (cheap grocery store) because we needed a few items. Then we came back to Nido and were just chilling, and I figured out my internet worked, so I've been on it ever since.

Tomorrow we are planning on going to buy hangers, going to Primark (really cheap clothes), and then doing something really fun, like going to the British Library to check out this exhibition (http://www.bl.uk/breakingtherules), or maybe going general sight seeing or to the British Museum. At night, we are going to some Brazilian event thing. I really don't know what it is, but we are friends with some Brazilians, and at the time I am typing this, we're still not really sure what it is. But it will be cool, I'm sure.

Some things may be repeated from the last post, but I wanted to give a little more details. If you guys have specific questions about anything I've talked about or whatever, just ask me in the comments.

I'm tired, it's after 1 in the morning.

Cheers!