L'Shana Tova from London!

Yesterday was Rosh Hashanah, and being one of only 3 Jews on this International Internship Program I felt it fit to cook a semi-traditional Jewish dinner for the rest of the flat. Dane and I went on a trip to Waitrose (the huge supermarket) and bought almost 50 pounds worth of food to cook. We had some trouble getting chocolate chips to dip strawberries into; when we asked where they were they pointed us to the chip section. When we asked where the marshmallows were they had no idea what we were talking about, first they thought we were talking about melons, then they thought we were asking about a frozen food. We eventually found them, but unfortunately they didn't have just white, so we got white and pink. We had to weed out the pink ones because we were making sweet potato pie, and strawberry flavored marshmallows on top would not taste very good.
So cooking took about 3 hours. We made matzoh ball soup, gefilte fish, salmon, falafal, apples and honey, chicken, noodle kugel, sweet potato pie, and we bought bread that wasn't challah, but sort of looking like challah. We had 13 people and it was really good. It was nice to have a sort of substitute family for the holiday. The people that are on this program are so awesome, they are very welcoming and open to anything. I figure you have to be cool to choose to study abroad in London. I'm really lucky to be here with such great people to share the experience with.
Today I've stayed in my pajamas the entire day because it was "homework day." It has been tough to find time during the week to do homework so all of it was saved for Sunday. It was kind of like to relax and get things done. I also got some laundry done, though I had some trouble with our European washer/dryer and I washed my clothes 4 times because I couldn't figure out how to dry them. It was quite frustrating. All my clothes are hanging on every part of this flat. It's ridiculous.
Tomorrow I have work from 10 to 6, and later tonight one of my flatmates and I are going to Tesco (24 hour convenience store) to pick up some groceries for the week. I will hopefully post soon with some fun and interesting happenings in London!