Here are some things I have done lately. I'm really sorry about the list format but it's the only way I know of to catch up.
- Westminster Abbey, the most bizarre church I have ever been in. For starters, costs 7 pounds to get it, which I think is pretty blasphemous. Also, it is very cluttered. Also, it is cluttered with dead people. Also, houses the oldest door in britain. Also, there was a phone sitting in top of William Congreve's tomb. Enough with the "also"s. It was pretty epic. We stood on top of dickens, aphra benn, rudyard kipling, chaucer, darwin, and others. Saw the graves of Elizabeth I and Mary Queen of Scots.
- Picnic at St. James' park. Got yelled at by an angry goose.
- British LIbrary, this time not to study but to see the manuscripts, OMG, the manuscripts! Sooooooo cool. Original handwriting of Jane Austen, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, WB Yeats, Lewis Carol, John Milton (!!!!) Charlotte Bronte, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, and many more. Voice recordings too. And the Magna Carta.
[sidenote--Jessie has a lot of terrible music on her computer, and I am totally judging her right now]
- Stood outside the Baftas, trying to see celebrities. This was pretty much a complete failure, because it was way too crowded and we couldn't see over the heads. However, I did get a good look at Daniel Day-Lewis, which I suppose is a big deal seeign as he won the award for best actor.
Speaking of which...
- Watched There Will be Blood
- went out for the Full English Breakfast. In case you are not aware, the Full English Breakfast consists of: fried eggs, sunny side up but with the yoke pretty much solid, "bacon" which we would call tough slices of really salty ham, some really strange sausages, a grilled tomato, baked beans, and toast. It's actually really good if you don't overthink it. The best part of the experience was that while we were searching for a place to eat, we discovered a shop around the corner that sells all of this for only 3.80! It's only take-out so we didn't eat there, but DEFINITELY made a mental note.
It think that's pretty much it for the last few days.
[I am currently listening to The Streets. English white people rapping. Bahaha.
"Tell my mum I won't be back for tea."
"Hit the fifty quid button... insufficient funds"
"I couldn't be bothered with any more rowing."
"You're fit by my gosh don't you know it."
"I saw this thing on iTV the other week, said if she plays with her hair she's probably keen"
I am not joking. I'm pretty sure they're not either. They eve have a song called "What a Twat." I take it back, Jessie's music is AMAZING]
It is currently reading week, which is that completely unnecessary break they have in the middle of each semester. Tomorrow Jessie and I are going to Oxford to check out the great hall from harry potter, and the pub where CS Lewis and Tolkien used to chill. Should be good times. I had better go to sleep, but I can't seem to drag myself away from The Streets. Oh man.
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"What a Twat." Oh my God.
I can't believe you saw DDL! So jealous.
And ahhh Tolkien! CS Lewis! Harry Potter! Oxford!
I'm dying a little.
Your life right now is magical.
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