Day 14: Bethnal Green

So I am finally situated in my home for the next nine to twelve months. I live at 256A Bethnal Green Road in East London, nearby the famed Brick Lane. Brick Lane is home to some of the best Indian food in the UK, excellent clubs such at 93 Feet East (occupying an old brewery), and plenty of street vendors. Every single day, there is fresh produce right outside my door, so I literally do not need to move outside a blocks radius besides to get to school!

I have three room mates:

Mond (Australian)



Richard (from Hong Kong)




and Arnou (French, picture to be added soon).

On Saturday, we celebrated by going to this great Chinese food restaurant in China Town (Leicester Square) called Four Seasons. The roasted duck was absolutely delicious, and nearly dissolved before I even put it in my mouth. It was a well deserved treat, after a week of frantic flat searching and constant switching of room mates.

We explored Bethnal Green a bit on Sunday, and got some bagels (or rather, Beigels) at the oldest bagel shop in the UK, which is down the street from us. Only 80 pence for a bagel with cream cheese, beat that Noah's!








The area also has a lot of work by famous UK based graffiti artists, such as Bansky. I'll make sure to take a couple of photos when it is not so cloudy outside.

Saturday night, we went to Fabric, a popular Euro-house club in London. I heard around 20+ different languages being spoke out of around 1,000 clubbers, so international! It's also amazing that I have only met two other Americans so far, from what Tulane told me, it is very difficult to meet non-Americans in London. So much for that!


Monday is my first day of orientation at the AA. We have around ten to fifteen different tours we can go on, such as visting FAT Architects, Zaha Hadid, Richard Rogers... or doing museum tours of the like. Hopefully I can book a spot to see Zaha Hadid's firm, apparently she is an interesting character.