Last Train to London

Believe it or not, my semester here in London is mere days away from completion. I could've sworn only last month was I being orientated to living in the UK and receiving my cultural education first hand. Well, thats because it was. The reason our program is so short here in London (in comparison to other Pepperdine international programs who just completed their midterms and are enjoying their Spring Break) is a scheduled remodeling of the facility here in South Kensington. In order to complete it by the beginning of this coming fall, work has to basically start this coming week. Although the signs of our departure are all around us. The pictures of past programs the adorned the walls are long since gone, books have been removed from the library, broken items have been neglected for repair until after we leave and even the Coke machine has been removed. Suffice to say the higher-ups here are good and ready for our departure.
The schedule for the rest of the program looks something like this: we leave Thursday to fly into Athens and check into our new home away from home, the Hotel Philippos (my fifth different room this year, counting the multiple room switches I had in the DC program last semester). From there it's orientation all over again, concluding with a day trip for our religion class to Delphi on March 8th. After a couple days of work, we get a long weekend (our spring break) from the 13th to 16th which I plan on using to cruise the Greek Isles. The next weekend includes another educational day trip to Corinth and the weekend following that is free; I hope to take that time to get to Rome. After I come back from wherever I'm going, I leave the next day on Monday for our extended Educational Field Trip to Turkey that'll last for a week. Once that finishes and we conclude finals, it's back to the States on April 11th. And thats my semester. See, I knew this would happen. I blinked in January and here I am plotting out the short time left in my experience abroad.
Oh well, before I get too ahead of myself, I still have much to do here in London. In about an hour I'm going to hop the Tube over to Abbey Road for a requisite photo-op and I hope to see some other stuff in London I haven't experienced yet. The sad part is knowing that no matter how hard I try, there will still be things I haven't done here. Oh well, I guess that means working doubly hard this summer to save up for another trip here!