tuesday jan 27

today brie and i went and ate at the spaghetti house in leicester square then had ice cream or gelato at some place in leicester square also, it was a great place, sooooo many desserts to choose from. tuesday is like a date night from now on i guess.

london so far

Ok so i've been in london now for almost exactly two weeks. It has been amazing. I came here with brie and we have been having a great time just exploring this city. Im gonna try to post on here what i've been doing as they come but this one will be a bit longer just so i can kinda some up what i've been doing the past few weeks. (remember when i say we walked it seems like not that much but really walking is a long ways sometimes but in this it may seem like a hop skip and a jump.)

the first week we got here we explored the city a lot. we didn't have any guide or anything, we were just put in the middle of the city and had to figure it out on our own. Luckily i remembered a lot from the Europe Trip.
The first two days we were kinda sick and jet lagged so we laid low for those two days.
then on Monday we had our first orientation meeting. It just told us how school works here. That night Brie and I took a 3 hour adventure around the city. We walked to the south bank(London Eye area) and along the River Thames. we crossed the millennium bridge which lead right to St Paul's cathedral. Then we walked down Fleet street which then turns into the strand which a small shopping street. that leads to trafalgar square. from there we walked to picadilly circus. after that we walked to parliment and westminster abbey. we crossed the bridge and went home. it was fun. we then went to the three stags pub right next to where we live. i had my first beer. but it was terrible.

Then on tuesday we had our registration meetings. then i got together with my orientation group they put us in(mine was all girls) and we did our little challenge game thing to win a trip to amsterdam, which we did not win. Brie and I then walked around the city a little more. I think Leicester square.

wednesday. Brie and i walked to Buckingham palace then to hyde park and around knightsbridge(Harrod's area) then we ended up a picadilly again and we ate at Pret a Manager which is very prevalant here...more here than starbucks at home.

Thursday Brie and i went to the british museum for a few hours. its nice when you live by it cause you can do bits at a time. we then took the bus to the london bridge then walked to the tower bridge. we walked across it to the tower of london. we then went home.

friday there was a boat party for international students. brie and i couldnt find it but we didnt really care cause we didnt really want to go cause it seemed to be more partying. (it was). we then ate in picadilly. After we ate we ran into a gaza protest. it was huge and crazy..even the police were peacing out of there. so we decided itd be best if we just left. which was good cuz it starting turning into a riot afterwards(newspapers showed a starbucks we were right by that got trashed)

saturday we went out to hampton court. we then ate at the place adam tyler and mark and i had found that had excellent fish and chips. it is much colder in the country compared to the city.

sunday. we went to the national gallery. its alright. a lot of the same kinda pictures. either a landscape, a portrait, or a picture of jesus or the virgin mary. we saw a cool street performer get out of a straight jacket in 3 minutes, that was fun. we ate at a cafe where i ordered something i couldnt pronounce, turned out ot be halibut, very thin and rubbery covered in sweet chili. eh. we then went to tesco(grocery store) in elephant and castle. it was closed and that is a bad place at night...mental note*

monday 19. classes started so that was cool.

tuesday. another day of classes. i met my first guy. his name is matt. cool kid to hang out with in class.

wednesday. class again. matt was in that class too. along with some of his other friends. i found out they were pretty big party kids. awesome. brie and i then went down to Harrods and then went ot trafalgar square. we made dinner on bries floor and met some cool girls there.

thursday. i walked around oxford circus(shopping district) with two kids from my class, alex(girl) and teddy. teddy went to his next class so i continued to walk with alex and get to know her. she seems pretty cool. Then brie and i went grocery shopping and made dinner on her floor again. i had a Guiness foreign extra. it was alright.

friday. brie and i met up with kelly pfiel and her friend. we went out to camden town, which is an awesome place to hang out. it was fun. we had lunch after her friend went back home. then us three walked around picadilly and china town. it was fun. nice to talk to someone rather than just brie. its weird how a third person to a conversation changes everything.

Saturday jan 24. we are signed up for this programme that takes us on different trips and stuff. today we went to blenheim palace and oxford university. we met this couple from minnesota, Nick and Whitney. they are pretty awesome kids and they are going on all teh trips to so im pretty stoked. after that we went to picadilly so i could get bigger earrings (3mm) we then found that saturday is a bad day for picadilly. lots of people and lots of police and more gaza protests. i had cider with my dinner that we made. it was pretty good.

sunday. our lazy day. i had to get a textbook. and i had wychwood hobgoblin beer. it was pretty good.

monday. jan 26. i had class. then had dinner at home. spaghetti and well's bombadier ale. it was eh.

so that catches up to today. whew. i will now be only posting eventful days. or so. i dont really know.