Almost done week 3!

So I'm back in London and so far it's been great. I'm starting two new courses (Gender and European welfare states, and Social Policy: Organisation and Innovation). So far they are very interesting, with good lectures and seminars. I'm also continuing my Social Policy research course which is also very good. Ive been doing a lot of reading to try to get a question for my thesis, which is time-consuming, but so far Ive been staying on top of things.
The first weekend back I went to Kew Gardens (below), and the next weekend I went to a cool market, had really great coffee and bought some tasty (but expensive) cheese. I also bought some jeans, first time in a long time! Luckily I had my friends to help because shopping can be awful. I've integrated two friends, Winnie and Robyn, so we do lots of stuff together.
Last week I handed in a paper that is marked but it doesn't count. I did pretty well on it which is good because I put a lot of work into it. Also I went to a Pantomine - a British Christmas tradition of making a funny play based on a fairy-tale, that includes singing and dancing and audience participation, like booing at the bad-guys, helping them find who stole the money, and stuff like that. It's meant for kids but is fun for all ages! So that was quite enjoyable, although not hoity-toity like the art gallery I went to with class-mates last Friday. It had real famoun art (Van Gosh, Manet, etc) and we free! We'll be heading back sometime, it's 2 mins away from campus.
I'll try to take some pictures this weekend to post since I haven't been keeping up with it. I have pictures of the slides at Tate Modern that I went to before christmas but for some reason they will not load up in right way. Oh well.