Im currently writing an essay that is due tomorrow but needed a quick break. So, heres what has been happening in the past few days. Our RA Sarah took us on a walking tour of London along the Thames on Saturday, and althought it rained the whole entire time (and I happened to forget my umbrella that day) it was still an awesome walk from start to finish. We walked up one bank of the river, saw Tower Bridge (which they are currently repainting for the Olympics), tons of awesome architecture, and then wound down around the other side and ended at the London Eye (thats the giant terrifying ferris wheel). It was quite the walk however, so we stopped at this chicken restaraunt (like a Noodes or Chipolte with all things chicken) and ate a quick bite.
The next day was Sunday so the Greenwich Market was in full swing, as was the Fair Trade Market down by the river. A few of us stopped by both of those and looked around for a while, there was more stuff there than we could have ever seen in one day. Luckily the Greenwich market is every weekend. This coming weeken is the Food Festival so I can garauntee that several of us will be back down by the river this weekend.
As for class, we've got a new professor this week, Susan Rowland, and she's fairly interesting. She's no John Williams (our professor last week who several of us fell in love with) but she's teaching us all about mysticism and mystery writing this week so that should be interesting.
Other than that, theres not too much going on right now. Tomorrow we have a 300 word paper, a 1500 word paper, and a 500 word mystery story due so most of us have confined ourselves to the dorms for the night. Wednesday were going to the O2 (big entertainment arena--MJ was supposed to do his shows here before he died) to see the Harry Potter movie and grab dinner so of course that will be fun. This weekend we're going to do Tower London and the Dungeons so Ill have plenty of scary pictures to post from that. Off to finish my paper!
With love from London,
Kelsey
So learning this week about mysticism and mystery writing and going to see new Harry Potter movie - sounds appropriate!
ReplyDeleteGlad you're having a good time and remember the bank of mom and dad is here if you need a few more pounds sterling! :o)
Luv Ya!
Everyone falls in love with a British professor at some point...at least every American girl studying English in Britain. Good for you!
ReplyDeleteSo anyway, I'm glad you're enjoying yourself. I wish I was with you. Did you walk on South Bank? I'm sure you did. It's where the Globe is. Well if you're in love with Love Actually as much as I am, you'd be happy to know that part of it was filmed there and I walked by it!
Try to see a Shakespeare play at the Globe. It's really quite fantastic. I saw Coriolanus there, and one of the actors was Geoffrey from the Fresh Prince of Bel Air!! It was lovely.
Well, continue having fun and writing those lovely papers!