Despite my efforts to keep this up to date, mostly so that I don't feel obligated to write a weeks worth of stuff in one post, I have failed yet again. That being said nothing much really happened last week. Lots of class, lots of reading, lots of frustrated time at the library. 6 hour check outs are seriously the worst idea ever. I don't think there was really anything eventful.. The dinners were pretty awful Monday/Tuesday. I've been working on catching up with as many of my tv shows as I can, it's not going all that well except for Top Model and How I Met Your Mother.
This was the first weekend here where we haven't had any ISA events planned so that was rather nice. The majority of the group spread themselves out across the world; I know of people who went to Scotland, Ireland, Sweden and Florence, Italy this weekend. I stayed here haha. Saturday was a bit of a lazy day. Slept in way too late and then read before going to the library to work on scholarship app stuff. But the library closed in 30 minutes so that was basically a failed attempt.
Sunday Nathan, Breezy and I went in to London to meet Mandy and explore a bit. We went to Carnaby Street for a little while but most things were closed and it was a bit dull, not quite what I had hoped. Then after getting a bit lost we made it to the British Mueseum, which aside from Bath is by far my favorite thing here. We spent about 3 hours there I think but I could have stayed there the whole day. The architecture of the building itself was phenomenal, which only added to the awesomeness of everything it housed. There was just so much to see that there's no way we even saw everything in the areas we did explore.
We started out in one of the Egyptian rooms, then moved on to Greece and Rome. After that Nathan and I had lunch before moving upstairs. While attempting to figure out where we were going we stumbled across some more Greek stuff, Mesopotamia, as well as the Egyptian Life and Death exhibit, which had a lot of mummies and sarcophagi as well as other things. Then we went and checked out the Japanese section which was absolutely beautiful. After that we quickly went through the early European rooms and then downstairs to the Islamic World section. The art/glass work in that section was phenomenal but it was considerably smaller than any of the other rooms. After that we went to find Mandy and Breezy.
After leaving the Museum we walked back to the tube station to head to Parliament/the Thames/The Eye of London. We got a few good pictures of Parliament as we walked to the Eye. The queue for tickets was rather long and the asshole worker lied to us and told us the 2 for 1 deal was expired so we all had to shell out 18 quid, which pissed me off. After that we headed back out to the freezing cold to get in line, which was monstrous. It took us about 45 minutes before we finally got on, partly due to the insanity of the line system. It started out as one line but was split in half further down to create more space. We were stuck in the outside lane and it moved muuuuch slower than the other. To the point that the people who had been next to us got on a good 20 minutes before us and countless people behind us who had been put in the inside line ended up ahead of us as well.
After that nasty bit we finally boarded the Eye. For those of you that don't know, it's a lot like a gigantic ferris wheel, only you're in an enclosed egg-shaped capsule and it goes very slow. The ride takes half an hour and hte views of the city are amazing. We were fortunate that by the time we got on we were able to enjoy the last bits of sunshine, as well as the sunset and a bit of the nighttime lights. After the Eye we were pretty hungry and for lack of much knowledge of the area/desire for cheap and quick, we ended up going to McDonald's lol. The restaurant itself was much classier than the ones back home, but the food was exactly the same in my opinion.
We got home around 8:30 and relaxed. Today's classes were alright, somewhat interesting. Still trying to get used to the lecture style here. Tomorrow I've only got 1 class so hopefully I will be a bit more productive than usual. But who knows haha.
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