Splish Splash

Yesterday was my first real experience with London rain. It had rained once before, in the evening, and I went out afterwards, but yesterday, I was actually outside when it was raining, making use of my umbrella. We were on our way to class, and just walking along, and there was a giant puddle on the side of the road. We're mostly past it when a giant bus comes along from behind and splashes the dirty street puddle water all over our backs and legs. Not fun. My pants were all wet (and they were khakis too) and dirty and my shoes were beginning to get all wet. A little while later, we're still walking along, and slightly soggy, and there is another even larger puddle. I'm like, that would suck if it happened again. I look down the road, and there is another bus barreling right for that puddle. I yell out to Justin, who is between me and the road, and tried to pull him back from the splash zone. No such luck. The bus sprayed water everywhere. But mostly onto Justin and myself. Now, since Justin was in between me and the street, a large portion of the water missed me and just got him. But I was still pretty well wet. Now Justin, on the other hand was absolutely sopping wet. From his waist down he was dripping. He was like forget this, and turned around and went home to change, and said he would meet us at the museum later (we were having a field trip to the Science Museum later on in class). Ross and myself continued on (Ross didn't get splashed the second time around because he was a couple steps behind me and Justin) even though we were both pretty wet. My pants weren't jeans, so I knew they would dry fairly quickly, and they did, except for below my knees, which didn't really touch me anyhow cause they were baggy pants. The only thing that was miserable for me all morning was my feet. My socks and shoes were drenched and I could feel the water squishing around in there all morning. It sucked. I was leaving mini puddles of water where ever I stopped to look at an exhibit in the museum. And Ross noted that we kinda smelled a little, because the water was so nasty and dirty. It was really a rather disheartening experience.

The museum was pretty cool, we went to have a look at the exhibits from the Industrial Revolution period. Although our professor loves his tangents and decided that he would show us the whole museum and we wound up looking at airplanes for a good half hour. Whatever. Some of us now have to give presentations on something from the Industrial Revolution period that changed how people lived. Me and Alison decided to pick trains and how they standardized
time because if One town was 10 minutes behind another the train could come "early" and they may not be ready, and trains could crash. Which, clearly is no good. And so this led to pocket watches and people having personal timepieces, and gave Greenwich another job in keeping the official time.

After the museum it was back to the flat for lunch and then dashing off again for my second class, British Life and Culture. After class I did a power shopping trip to the grocery store to get just a couple things and then back here to chill out for the rest of the night. I did some work on my politics paper, laundry, made dinner, wasted time, the general things a college kid does. Then it was bed time!

Today I've got nothing to do until my 5pm class, but I have a paper due tomorrow afternoon, so I've got to write that today.
Guess thats all, nothing exciting at all, especially compared to the weekend I just had.

Cheers!