Update

I made it to Plymouth. My building is currently still being built, so I am in a temporary room for the next couple nights. I can't fully unpack. I have been having a rough day. I got a SIM card. I got 3gb of data and thought "Yea! I'll never use all of that!" I used almost all of it in about 3 days using text plus. Then I thought I would just get international text put onto my phone. There is a limit of 50 outgoing texts to the US. So I am paying 10p per text for those few. No wifi in the residence halls, but all over the rest of campus. Now I am sitting in my temporary room listening to the inaudible voices of some meeting across the hall in the kitchen that I wasn't here for the beginning and I am too scared to go join now. I am tired, I am scared, I am nervous, and I am alone in an unfamiliar city. All I want to do is curl up in bed and cry, but this isn't even my bed and I don't really want to put the sheets on just yet. I will be walking to my dad and sister's hotel here in a bit to get some dinner, but until then I am just going to sit here and stare at the wall. I'll write about our time in London at a later date.

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