We had our first day of school today. One of our teachers met us at our flats to walk us to school so we would know where we were going. It is pretty easy to find, about a 25 minute
walk. We had a couple classes then some orientation with a London police officer, a travel agent, and a representative from the school. It was good information, but went over an hour longer than our classes were supposed to. It was raining when we finished and walked back to our flat, our first of many rainy London days. We stopped and got fish and chips for the first time in England. The restaurant was really small, so we took it to go and ate in our flats. This picture is a bit blurry, but I'm hoping you won't notice if it is just a little one on a blog. We had a mellow afternoon and the maintenance guy came by to check on our heater, dishwasher, and toilet because we wrote them on the list downstairs. The heater there was just another switch on the side that needed to be turned on, the dishwasher was spilling suds on the floor because we were using laundry soap instead of dishwashing soap, and the toilet is supposedly not leaking, it is just the shower and condensation (I'm not so sure about the last one, we'll see). Oops. But our DVD player really is broken and we are getting a new one tomorrow. Other minor catastrophes in our flat include freezing our milk and juice in the fridge (our other fridge lets things spoil because it doesn't get cold enough) 
and one of our flatmates accidently used a bathmat towel that we weren't supposed to use, so she wanted to wash it and put it back before housekeeping comes tomorrow. We gathered a load of whites, including a second bathmat from their bathrooom, specifically asking for whites so nothing would run, and when we pulled the load out, it was blue, very blue. One of the girls had put in a pair of jeans, which had been washed many times, but had a pair of black leggings that had not been washed and are now much lighter, while all of our whites are much darker. The white sock is just there for reference, but I do have an odd pair of socks now because I kept stepping in water in the bathroom and the kitchen from everything that has been leaking and I got tired of changing both socks and didn't want to run out of socks super quick, so I had 3 and a half pairs of socks in the laundry that turned blue.
walk. We had a couple classes then some orientation with a London police officer, a travel agent, and a representative from the school. It was good information, but went over an hour longer than our classes were supposed to. It was raining when we finished and walked back to our flat, our first of many rainy London days. We stopped and got fish and chips for the first time in England. The restaurant was really small, so we took it to go and ate in our flats. This picture is a bit blurry, but I'm hoping you won't notice if it is just a little one on a blog. We had a mellow afternoon and the maintenance guy came by to check on our heater, dishwasher, and toilet because we wrote them on the list downstairs. The heater there was just another switch on the side that needed to be turned on, the dishwasher was spilling suds on the floor because we were using laundry soap instead of dishwashing soap, and the toilet is supposedly not leaking, it is just the shower and condensation (I'm not so sure about the last one, we'll see). Oops. But our DVD player really is broken and we are getting a new one tomorrow. Other minor catastrophes in our flat include freezing our milk and juice in the fridge (our other fridge lets things spoil because it doesn't get cold enough) 
and one of our flatmates accidently used a bathmat towel that we weren't supposed to use, so she wanted to wash it and put it back before housekeeping comes tomorrow. We gathered a load of whites, including a second bathmat from their bathrooom, specifically asking for whites so nothing would run, and when we pulled the load out, it was blue, very blue. One of the girls had put in a pair of jeans, which had been washed many times, but had a pair of black leggings that had not been washed and are now much lighter, while all of our whites are much darker. The white sock is just there for reference, but I do have an odd pair of socks now because I kept stepping in water in the bathroom and the kitchen from everything that has been leaking and I got tired of changing both socks and didn't want to run out of socks super quick, so I had 3 and a half pairs of socks in the laundry that turned blue.
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Was the laundry detergent not labeled? Jaime and I are wondering...
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