HOME!
Ljubjliana, Slovenia, London, and now Home.
Although this will just be a quick post to give y’all an update, I am home! in St Louis, staying with Ken (my frosh year roommate, for those who know) for a week or two until I find a term place to live (probably a sublet in the area), and then looking to more permanent (read: maybe a whole year lease, or something completely different) towards the end of the summer.
That’s probably about enough, but I’ll mention the customs:
Cheese, apparently, is really really illegal to carry in from out of country (which I didn’t know). I bought some cheese in Ljubjliana before I left, thinking it would be fun to say “I’ve got some cheese from Slovenia.” When I arrived in London, giant posters saying something like “Meat, Cheese, Vegetables” … “Can be fined” … a lot. So I walk through the “Something to Declare line” ready to put up an argument that I could sit there for three days if they didn’t let me take it in; it is okay to carry in such substances from EU countries, but not from outside the EU. Slovenia joins on 1 May; so if I just sat in the airport for three days, I could take it in.
No worries, though, because no one was in the room to check! I just walked right through and into the main terminal 
. When I arrived in the US and was asked where I was coming from, I said “London” and the customs agent let me go right through. Heheheh.
More later, but I’m off! Take care.
Posted: April 30th, 2004 under The World in Six Months '03-'04.