Livin' Life in Fast Forward

I can't believe classes are almost over and soon it will be fall break and the semester half over!! Its going by soooo quickly!

Saturday. For the most part I sat around and did nothing while waiting for 5pm to roll around so I could get ready to go to try outs. I went to tryouts, and immediately realized that my expectations of what it would be were far too high. I thought about the 54 names far too much and forgot that basketball is not what this country does, and it is after all, club level, and not at all serious bball. We spent half an hour just randomly shooting around, and then they had us do 5-6 laps around the court for a warm-up. So I set out to do them, and within one lap around the court I was half a lap ahead of anyone. And I wasn't going fast at all. I was jogging and getting a warm up in. Everyone else was basically walking with a bounce to their step. It was incredible. But I did slow down a bit after that and only finished about a lap ahead of everyone else. We then proceeded to do lay-ups for 20 minutes, and at my end of the court there was one other person who could do a proper left-handed layup. Seriously. And then we did 3 on 2 for a half hour or so, and we did it against the "coaches". Why they didn't let us play defense I'll never know. We then did 3 girl weave and 2 on 1 back for the last bit of time....so like half an hour. It was ridiculous. We didn't do any ball handling drills, almost no defense, no scrimmaging, no sort of plays. None of that. Also no conditioning. It was also very "wing it" by the coaches. I guess I'm just used to good-ole Shead (HS coach) with his very structured and detailed plans for practice. And I miss it, a lot. I broke my finger when we were doing 3 on 2 vs the coach characters while trying to grab a rebound. It pretty much sucked, but didn't realize how much it hurt/that I really did something bad to it until the very end of practice. Adrenaline will do that to ya.
After "try-outs" I came back to the flat and saw all the girls about to leave for dinner and a night out for Diana's birthday. Well, I sat around here, made a quick dinner, got cleaned up, and went to join the girls after their dinner out and went out on the town with them. We went to this place called Abracadabra, and it was completely insane. We had no idea what it was, but later found out that it was intended to be the most exclusive and highest quality (ie: EXPENSIVE) club for rich people in London. We decided it was where the ugly rich Europeans went haha. Click here for the website for the place and you'll see for yourself. Just enter a bogus cell number to see the site...thats what I did. Lol. Needless to say we didn't stay long cause it was expensive and we're poor, so we went to a bar elsewhere in Piccadilly and had loads of fun there. It was 6 girls on the town together, and we just got silly. And we stayed out waaay too late and goofed off together and had a blast. Yay girls nights out!!
Sunday I did nothing (aka: recovered from Saturday). I did do a little work on the presentation I had to give for Tuesday though.
Monday I had class all day. For history we went to the Churchill Museum and War Room Cabinet from WWII. It was amazing. Absolutely fantastic. I would love to educate you all here, but this blog would be farrr too long, so if you would like to know more, go here. For BLC we talked about the media and the reporting on the Madeline McCann case and how irresponsible the media is being on the case. It was really interesting to learn about. We also had some English treats brought by the professor that were really interesting. We had some Cornish pasties that were pretty good, and kind of reminded me of stuffing (the filling anyhow). For some history on the Cornish Pasty, go here.
Tuesday I had politics and we got our papers back. I wrote mine on the United Kingdom Constitution and I got an 'A'!!! Yay! Now, I would like to say that I thought the overall content of the paper did probably deserve the grade I got, but I think that the structure of the paper could have been better, and if I had been able to write more, it would have flowed better (there was a 2000 word limit...my paper was 1996 words). I also had a presentation to give. Angelica and I did the history of civil rights and liberties in the UK. And we did pretty well.
Today we had politics again, and this time, it was our final. Yikes! We took the final, I think I did alright, and I also asked about the presentation grade, and we got an 'A-"! I'm so thrilled. So as long as i get a B+ or higher on the final (which I'm sure I'll get) I'm gonna get an 'A' in the class. Hoorayyyy! Also, I'm excited because this means that I'm totally done with politics!! Yay.

Oh, I nearly forgot! I had my interview for my internship (that we have in place of classes for the rest of the semester) yesterday morning. It went really well, and I clearly got the job! Yay. I'm working for London First in the safer business section. I'm not entirely sure what I'll be doing, but as soon as I start doing it, you guys will be sure to know! The staff I'm working with is currently 2 people short, so I can be sure that I'll get to do some real stuff....and prolly be working my ass off...and not getting paid for it. Meh, thats what an intern does, and I'm going to be getting some fantastic experience. Click here for more info on the London First organization.

And now you are all up to date on my life!

Cheers!!!