Day 2

Location: still Campbell House, UCL in London, UK

[my music ~ Déjà vu ~ Beyonce ((just cuz it was on the TV in O’Neill’s today))]

Today has been awesome! I woke up this morning at 8 to get ready for class at 9. The class went pretty smoothly, didn’t start too much, but all 8 of the girls were falling asleep… oh well. We were supposed to go to the British Museum today but that got postponed until tomorrow. I’m ok with that. Professor Johnston did assign reading and a few writings due tomorrow, but it’s nothing too harsh.
After class we came back to the rooms for like 5 minutes then 6 of us headed out for the afternoon! We walked around, tried to eat at The Rocket but we don’t know what was going on there, then finally wound up just eating at O’Neill’s. Brittany and I had our first legal under-21 alcoholic beverage! It was good times. We are so not used to European tipping styles at restaurants so we leave such a huge tip for these people. Oh well, if they’re cool servers, then we’ll be nice.
After lunch we walked around and found this little public square area where they had foosball tables and a huge version of jenga and a huge version of connect four just out in the open! It was sick! we started playing then got distracted by a sign that said “mall” and went in search of a mall… but I guess the British have a different definition of mall because we just did not see one ANYWHERE! There were a few shops & a sick gym, but that was it! Sorry Brits, but that does not constitute a mall!
We then walked through Regent’s Park and had so much fun just walking around and such. I had a pretty good milkshake, then Brittany and I almost got killed by a psychotic killer bird and then some older British man comes up behind us and is all like “it’s just a pigeon you know.” I was ready to say “dude, I’m from New York! I know what a pigeon is!” It was good times.
There is a sick fountain in the middle of the park that we played with for a few minutes like we had never seen a fountain before. It was intense. We then kept walking, found the London Zoo and realized that was too expensive, and then started walking back. Since I was in pain cuz my shoes cut into the back of my heel and Amanda had shinsplints like whoa, we decided to take a taxi back. It was so spacious and inexpensive that I was amazed!
Amanda, Stefanie and I then went out looking for ice to ease our pains, plus a few more groceries. Let’s just get it out in the open that there is no place in this freaking city that sells plastic bowls, plates, forks or spoons! We had to steal sporks & clear plastic container things from a salad line! It was awful. But we did get some nifty ice bags! It’s a plastic bag that you fill up with water, put in the freezer, then when it freezes you take the bag out and shake the ice-cubes free of the bag! How sick is that?!
Went out to dinner with Betsy ((pizza express again)) then went back to the room, ate, chilled and laughed a lot... then we got to cracking on our Billy Shakes homework. That went late into the night, but it's all good. I'm happy.

hugs & kisses from London!