Where to start...well, from an airplane, Long Island looks like a lego city..the Statue of Liberty didn't look so large and the suburbs all look the same- go figure...

Once I got off my plane at LaGuardia, I had to pay $13 bucks to get a ride on a bus to JFK. Ten minutes into the ride I was looking around to figure out where we were- we were still in Laguardia...but it took us twice as long in JFK than LaGuardia, not to mention the insanely roundabout way we took to get there! I've actually added JFK to my list of airports I hope I never see again (the first being O'Hare)

I checked my luggage, hung out listening to people's conversations, road the AirTrain and bought a keychain-that was the extent of my trip to New York. Oh, and I've never seen so many Hasidic Jews in my life.

The flights overseas have become increasingly more comfortable than my first trip some seven odd years ago...A personal TV that you can choose what you want to watch, compfier chairs, moderinzed storage bins up top, and actually the flight attendants were incredibly nice people!...A baby cried the whole way...

Once we got to London, we waited for probably about three hours for everyone to arrive, then hopped in our two taxi vans and drove for an hour or so our rooms- which consequently looks like a dungeon..and comes complete with ants!!! But our taxi driver was cool as all get out...

The next couple days are just orientation and beginning classes...i posted some pictures to simulate what I've seen...so, no, I didn't take them

Long Island, NY

Hasidic Jews

Map of London

Gherkin

Double Decker bus!