Please mind the gap between the train and the platform

At this exact moment this morning I should be sitting in my History of Britain class. I, however, am not. Why? Because our professor forgot to show up. Hmmm.... so I thought I would take this extra time and update ya'll on my life here. It sort of takes care of the "what now" question since there are only 3 of us in the flat with this class, everyone else was up rather late last night and are all still currently sleeping. And we have things planned for 2 this afternoon (a coach tour of London) so we really can't go anywhere and do things.

So, I'll pick up where I left off....Wednesday. The day was pretty standard. Got up and got ready for my class, politics again, and it lasted all afternoon. It was 1-4. Then I went to the grocery store to get some food and made dinner. We then decided we needed to get out of Kensington and experience the city's night life, because its tops in the world, second only to New York City itself. So we hopped on the tube around 9 and went to Leicester Square (pronounced lester). Once in Leicester Square all we had to do was choose exactly what we wanted to do. We ended up in a club called Metra and there we had drinks (rather weak ones at that) and danced for hours. It was free to get in and we were all happy about that, cause we didn't stay too late. Then it was back on the underground and to our flat where we continued to hang out and have fun till around 3 in the morning.

Thursday was a huge day. The majority of us didn't have class at all, and those of us who did, didn't have class until 1 in the afternoon. So we slept in and then we all got ready to explore the city. We took the tube and got off at the London Bridge stop, and from there we went to a bridge and looked up the Thames and saw the famous London Bridge, and from there the picture taking started. We then walked along the river all the way up to the bridge and then walked across. We also saw City Hall, which is the most unique building I have ever seen that was a government building. Its really rather ridiculous. Once across the bridge we saw the Tower of London, but didn't go in, because we think our classes are taking us there, and we didn't want to pay the 16 pounds ($32) when we could possibly go for free. We then walked around for a bit and then hopped back on the tube and went to Westminster. As we came up out of the tube stop we turned around and Big Ben was directly behind us. It was seriously cool. We saw Westminster from the outside, but it was closed to the public because there were services in progress, so we couldn't go inside. Another time though. We also walked all along Parliament which was pretty sweet, though there weren't any trash cans, period in that area. Too much of a bomb threat is what people have told us. Its actually very hard to find a trash can on the streets here.

After Parliament we walked down to the opposite end of the street and saw Whitehall and then we were in Trafalgar Square. And in the UK there really are a lot fewer rules, because you can climb everything and not be in trouble, like you would be in the US. Its quite nice, cause you can get up on the big statue and sit down and have some pretty sweet pictures. There are some of me...yay! After Trafalgar Square we walked a few more blocks and were in Covent
Garden. There we walked around the market stalls and saw street performers. I took a video of one guy juggling knives while standing on a tightrope on one foot. It was pretty impressive to say the least. But what is kind of annoying, is how blunt they are asking for money. The guy must have talked about it for like 5 minutes about how you should give him money if you liked the show.

After we saw the show we started walking around looking for somewhere to eat that didn't seem too ridiculously expensive...cause the whole area is pretty pricey because its just swamped with tourists. We found a place that didn't seam too bad, and ate a passable meal. But we were all tired from walking allllll day and the food wasn't the greatest, and the service was pretty horrible (they forgot to make 3 of the orders) so we weren't exactly thrilled. After dinner I went in search of ice cream, and I had an ice cream bar, and it cheered me up immensely. It was then finally time for the last thing of the day. We had tickets for Stomp at Vaudeville Theatre. I've never seen it before, and man, it was super cool. I was exhausted and wanted to keep falling asleep, but I stayed awake because it was so awesome. It was also rather loud, so I suppose I would have had a hard time staying asleep. Haha. After the show it was back to the flat for relaxing and unwinding and a shower. Because goodness, London is a incredibly dirty city, and I was filthy. Then it was off to bed for me.

And then this morning was the class that wasn't meant to be.

I also promise I'm working on pictures, I've just run into a snag or two, but I'll have them up this weekend. Promise!