london!!!
i'm in london!! traveling was exhausting and long but i made it here! we are staying in flats in the west end of london and it's a really great area. very posh as they would say here. there are 4 people to a flat so i'm living with three other girls who are fun and everyone is pretty close together so we've all been trying to do things together.
yesterday was full of traveling. we got to our flats around 2 london time (so it was about 6 in the morning for me) and settled in a bit. then my roommates and i went on an adventure to find european cell phones so we can keep in contact with the group. i got one (let me know if you want the number) so i can keep in touch with people from the group and from home. then after spending about an hour trying to navigate the buses and the tube back to our building we met the group for dinner. our professor who's traveling with us took us all out to dinner at this great little restaurant so that was nice to be treated to a meal :-) after dinner we decided to check out the local pubs and spent a bit in a crowded smokey bar watching the locals watch cricket (very interesting...)
we were all incredibly exhausted after all of our traveling so it was a short-ish night. today we got up early and decided to head to buckingham palace to see the changing of the guard. i was very proud of myself for navigating the tube all the way there (even when our normal station was closed for the weekend). it was incredibly crowded there and of course as soon as we got off the subway it started to POUR. so we braved the rain for a bit and did end up seeing the changing of the guard. i've been to buckingham palace before and although it's a very cool building, there are just always way too many people for it to be worth it for me. but oh well. we stayed around for a bit and people watched and then decided we couldn't brave the rain anymore so we ducked in a cafe and had some lunch. now we're at an internet cafe and about to head back to the flat to change out of our soaking wet clothes (because of course now after our excursion it is dry) and rest a bit before deciding what we are doing tonight.
i'll try to post as often as i can but there is no internet access near our building so it may be more difficult than i thought. hope everyone at home is doing well! feel free to write comments or send me an email! :-)
yesterday was full of traveling. we got to our flats around 2 london time (so it was about 6 in the morning for me) and settled in a bit. then my roommates and i went on an adventure to find european cell phones so we can keep in contact with the group. i got one (let me know if you want the number) so i can keep in touch with people from the group and from home. then after spending about an hour trying to navigate the buses and the tube back to our building we met the group for dinner. our professor who's traveling with us took us all out to dinner at this great little restaurant so that was nice to be treated to a meal :-) after dinner we decided to check out the local pubs and spent a bit in a crowded smokey bar watching the locals watch cricket (very interesting...)
we were all incredibly exhausted after all of our traveling so it was a short-ish night. today we got up early and decided to head to buckingham palace to see the changing of the guard. i was very proud of myself for navigating the tube all the way there (even when our normal station was closed for the weekend). it was incredibly crowded there and of course as soon as we got off the subway it started to POUR. so we braved the rain for a bit and did end up seeing the changing of the guard. i've been to buckingham palace before and although it's a very cool building, there are just always way too many people for it to be worth it for me. but oh well. we stayed around for a bit and people watched and then decided we couldn't brave the rain anymore so we ducked in a cafe and had some lunch. now we're at an internet cafe and about to head back to the flat to change out of our soaking wet clothes (because of course now after our excursion it is dry) and rest a bit before deciding what we are doing tonight.
i'll try to post as often as i can but there is no internet access near our building so it may be more difficult than i thought. hope everyone at home is doing well! feel free to write comments or send me an email! :-)
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