Just some things...

- The milk in London tastes really good.  Different cows, different milk.

- Speaking of groceries, certain things are very cheap here like Nutella (£2 = $3.28), Oust air freshener (£1 = $1.64), chicken lunch meat (94p for 30 slices = $1.54), and yoghurt (£1 for 5 190-gram containers).  Certain things are very expensive though, like Starbucks coffee.  If a Starbucks coffee cost $3 at home, it would be around £3 here ($5!).

- Fires happen often.  Our first morning, we passed a litter bin (I dunno, is that 'garbage can'?) on the street outside Nido that was on fire and the firefighters were hosing it down.  Then, I realized the cause of this is that people stand right by the bins, smoke the rest of their cigarettes, and then throw them away.

- Londoners say "cheers" and "yeah?" a lot, as in "thank you" and "is that alright?" respectively.  On the airplane, we got a lot of "cheers" for handing the flight attendants stuff, and at Marks & Spencer, the cashier said, "5p for a bag, yeah?  £10.01, yeah?"

- I asked an employee at St. Pancras Station yesterday, "Excuse me, where is Platform 9 3/4?" and he told me, "In Kings Cross Station".  WILL SOMEONE PLEASE TELL ME WHERE PLATFORM 9 3/4 REALLY IS??  I've heard from other people it's actually in St. Pancras because they filmed the movies there....

- I read somewhere that London is the city that never sleeps, but that is an outright lie.  NEW YORK is the city that never sleeps.  Yesterday, I walked around St. Pancras Station and all the shops closed at 5pm.  The library they provide for us in lieu of Bobst closes at 9pm.  Fellow NYU-ers understand the weight of this statement.

- Londoners hate Mondays more than New Yorkers.  I got pretty bad treatment yesterday in the late morning at the Senate House Library, and also one of our NYUL staff who is usually bright and chipper was kinda...ergh.

- Tesco = Waldbaums

- Boots = CVS, Duane Reade, Rite Aid...

- Argos = no equivalent.  This is a store where people literally shop from catalogues.  There are counters with these HUGE books and you just flip through them, write down the codes, and present them to the cashier, and the item "magically" appears.

Anyway.  Enough ruminating.  I've got plenty more to come, but I have orgo lab in a couple of hours and want to get ready for that.  Cheers!