It is again late and tomorrow is an early rise so I will try to be brief. The past two days were spent in London on our study trip. Each class had a different agenda. Ours seem to be the most haphazard and not related to our class, but I’m not the organizer. Friday began with our bus not starting so instead of being picked up at 8:15 we were picked up at 9:30. Of course we didn’t know this ahead of time so we bonded over an episode of Columbo. The bus ride was long and upon arriving we found ourselves on the other side of the bridge from where we were when we visited London. Our “walking tour” if you can even call it that was random along the water point out a few things. They took us past the Film institute, but we had other random sights to see and the tube to take back to our hostel. Now they said it was not up a hill, but that was a lie there was a slight hill and it was about a mile from the tube stop to our hostel. We entered finding out that all 11 girls would be staying in one room with triple bunk beds. I’ve never seen that before. We all conquer that they should do these trips with these hostels first and then take us to Coverrack where the hostels are infinitely nicer. For some reason they thought it was a good idea to take us to the hostel only to have to leave after dinner to go right back where we were before dinner for the movie. They also didn’t leave enough time so we had to run that 1 mile back to the tube. The movie was intense and depressing. You felt like you needed to watch an episode of Winnie the pooh or something after that.
Catherine, Amelia, Christina and I were the only ones to stay in London after the movie. We walked around a bit, took some photos, had some ice cream and then made our way back. The next day was met with a cornucopia of alarms all going off at different times and people putting them on snooze and refusing to get up. We ate breakfast and headed to met our guide, but upon arriving there they told us we were almost an hour early so we could go explore. We walked down the street and found nothing to go into so we simply walked back. The tour was of Notting Hill, which didn’t used to be as nice as it is now. More celebrities live there than anywhere else in London and London has the most celebrities of anywhere in the world. The tour was fine, but I felt like we were going in circles as we passed right by our hostel. We ended at portabella market, which was way more expensive than I thought it would be at the little shops and it was super crowded. Furthermore, we had way too much time there and most of us sat in an alley waiting for the time to pass, getting some amusement from the pigeons. We then had to hike all the way back to our hostel to catch the bus (why the bus couldn’t meet us I have no idea) and embark on the long bus ride back to Bath.
In Bath we watched the USA vs. Ghana game :[ so GO ENGLAND! The rest of the evening was uploading pictures and such. Laura and I are going to Cardiff, Wales for a short day trip tomorrow. Hope the Veaseys have a great crab fest! I wish I was there! Have tons of fun!
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