Odinakachi Anyanwu '09

'Ello Mate, This seems to be the classic London greeting and I've picked it up myself. Wow, it's only been a week, yet I feel like I've been here for quite a while.

Wow, I don't know where to begin. So much has happened since the last time I blogged. I'm really getting used to London. It feels so much like home it's scary. Yet, there is an excitement about it that you don't get from home. The difference is solely that I have finally become comfortable here.

I've been here for a while and yet I struggled to wrap my mind around the geography and partitioning of the United Kingdom. I live in London... No, I live in Central London, which is not Greater London. London is the capital of England, which is a nation or not a nation because it is a part of the U.K. Then comes the rest, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland. Not all of Ireland. But hold on. They all have their own rugby teams that compete internationally and rival each other as if they were separate nations. Wales even has its own indigenous language. It's all right. As long as I understand that they are all under Great Britain or the U.K., I'm good. Wait, the U.K. is a part of Europe right? Now that was just ignorant. I know they're a part of Europe. I bet you were asking the same question though. Lol.

After being asked directions several times by people in London, and I myself having no idea where I was, it is obvious that there are a lot of visitors and tourists in London. This, in conjunction with the crazy statistics we learned about the number of visitors in London on any given day and season. There is obviously a huge diversity that is unique to London. I live in D.C. and we have a lot of visitors -- still not as much and not as much diversity, and if there is, it is separated. Aside from visitors in London, its citizens are also very diverse. I've run into so many different people here form different corners of the Earth. The national diversity here is colossal and I think that such diversity is awesome.