Helllo!

   So today It was still very snowy- but the buses were running again, so I could leave my little patch of London and head to class.

But First- I just had a strange experience. I made friends with a girl in my building, and she invited me to accompany her to play pool- but first she wanted to go to the smoking pavilion. I didn't know that there was such a thing- but then I realized she was talking about the little bus stop bench where there were always four or five people standing talking on the phone with cigarettes in their mouths. We were chatting, and suddenly I realized that the girl on the other side of me smells very strongly of marijuana! I then further realize that the two guys standing in tee-shirts a few steps away from me speaking in Russian to each other are in fact smoking from a large glass bong- (which actually had a pot leaf on the side). 

Then a security guard speaking in some language I'm not familiar with begins walking crunchily and slowly across the ice covered lawn leading toward the pavilion. At first I thought he was talking to himself, until I see he has a one of those little speaker phones. The two guys watch him for a second, take one more hit each, dump the rest of the contents into the conveniently placed trash can and walk slowly back to their building. The girl puts out her joint and follows. Then, my friend puts out hers and we walk to the pool table in the opposite building. I asked her what that was all about and she shrugged.

Anyway I thought it was all pretty strange and un-UPD like.