And Hello to Dear Dirty London... (7-3)

We got up at the crack of dawn today and headed to the Dublin airport for a flight around 9 am to Heathrow. A ride up the Picadilly and then the Northern line brought us to Camden Town where our accommodations are located. Now when I first stepped into the tube station at the airport I felt like I was "home." I love the London I remember from our family visit a few years ago, but this is a different area than we were in before. It's pretty far North. When we got here, none of us were very happy, but our professor had said she'd "seen worse" and that we would probably be fine. Heck, maybe I'm just a wimp. I've never lived in a dorm. We met up with our local guide and explored the Camden Town area a bit. Then we went and got something to eat. I ended up getting a chicken caesar salad, which ended up not tasting like chicken at all, but like fish. I've never had a caesar salad that tastes like fish so I asked them if I could please have something else because it was overpowering and unappetizing. They were very nice and replaced it sans anchovy paste... but also sans chicken. I didn't complain about that since they were so nice about it, and when the bill came they didn't charge us for it.I still felt grateful and pitched in 10 pounds (the salad would have been 6 something) towards what bread and frites of other people's I'd eaten and the tip. Then we came back to the dorms. Mom says I'm just spoiled, but I'm certainly not the only one complaining, and some of us are even complaining for health reasons. Apparently our trip was so low budget even though we were getting single rooms in London because we were booked at a bed and breakfast for university students that's really cruddy. I wasn't even given all of the necessary keys to get into my hallway. Luckily, (depending on how you look at it) the door to hallway P doesn't close properly unless forced, so I've been able to get in and out to do my laundry. That's the only thing I'm glad we're here for. I finally get to do laundry! I had planned on doing it tomorrow during our free day since everyone is doing it tonight, but apparently my professor is on the phone right now trying to get us out early tomorrow. She's trying to arrange for us to stay somewhere else and I'm really hoping it's possible. I don't know when I'll be able to post this because the free web "computer room" closed at 5 or 6 or something, while we were eating, and I'd have to pay for web from my room, if I could even figure out how to set it up... I took an hour nap or so relatively comfortably in my room after dinner, but I was exhausted. Now I'm starting to feel itchy and yucky like other people are saying they are, and even with the window open I'm feeling stuffy here in my room. Maybe we are spoiled, and we're not one of those people out on the street or in the tube station begging for money because they have no place to stay, nothing to eat, but but... I miss Dublin... I miss Daniel... I want to go home...