January 16 2013

You know what? Today was a really good day! I woke up and got ready to go to class. You know what I said yesterday about always finding a seat.. Yeah well screw that I never had to get up during rush hour to go to class. It was nuts there was no room to even turn your head! We went to the London center and waited for our professor because we all had to walk to the national gallery together. The area where the national gallery was was amazing! I mean the architecture was just unbelievable like every building was just beautiful! It sucked because we weren't allowed to take pictures inside but I did get some nice ones of the outside. We learned about British art for about two hours and then some Dutch pieces for a half hour. Then he sent us off to observe one piece from the British section because we would have to write a paper on it. It actually wasn't that bad, I think this class is going to help me appreciate art in a deeper way then just looking at it. I chose a piece by William Hogarth from his sequence marriage a la mode. Afterwards we walked back and I ate my cute little lunch in the lounge since I had journalism in an hour, and I thought that was going to be a bore but I ended up loving it! Our assignment every week is to pick a paper and get at get at least two papers a week from the same paper. I chose the daily mirror. I think this class is really going to help me mature a little because I used to not give a damn about what is going on in the world but now I have to read the paper and analyze, which is really important since I am in another country where everyone is always reading the paper especially on the tube. So hopefulIy this will carry back to America and I will be interested in what is going on even in other countries. On top of all this, my Oyster card finally came in today! Now I don't have to buy a ticket every time I get in the train! After class I went to the grocery store and took the train home. I did this all by myself and I felt so grown up! Haha I saw my friend Dylan at the London center after class today and they just got here today so now we have other people to go out with instead of the weirdos that usually come out with us. But again i had to ride the train during rush hour and it was so crowded, but it was so cute a man got a seat but then an old lady got on the train and he gave it up for her. I love seeing that stuff, it gives me hope that there still are lots of gentlemen around because that wasn't the first time I've seen that happen. A young man did it for me the other day and it was just so precious. Anyway when I got back me and trilby made feta and spinach omelettes and mine sucked. I thought I knew how to make an omelette but guess not it turned out all spongy and it looked like scrambled egg whites. I just read for the rest of the night and went to sleep. But all of a sudden it has been taking me like two hours to fall asleep! Hopefully that stops soon.

January 15 2013

I didn't want to waste another day in the room today so I woke up early, did a sprint workout, a Pinterest workout, and ate a healthy breakfast! Of course then I facetimed mommy... It's like I'm there in the room with her. I love it. We also finally saw the infamous cat outside our window! Everyday we here this moaning cat and have no idea where it comes from. On weekends the same drunk guy comes by at night and the cat goes "meoww" and the drunk man yells "ELLO!" And they go back and forth it's pretty hilarious. But today it was sitting on the sidewalk and then on the car. Me and trilby decided to go to Camden market which was incredible! It was just so alive! I couldn't stop smiling. There were stores and vendors everywhere weaving in between each other it was just amazing they had anything and everything there. I gave in and ended up buying this gorgeous poncho type jacket thing for 13 pounds it killed me but it is soooo cute. There was even a store there where you stuck your feet into a bowl of water while these minno looking fish ate the dead skin off your feet! Gross! Our mouths started to water as we walked by the food vendors and again we gave in and split a chicken burrito and it was the best burrito I've ever eaten. On our way back we got these amazing cinnamon and sugar pretzels with the inspiration to buy one from the free sample outside the store. We've eaten so healthy since we've been here..we definitely deserved a treat. We took the train home and it was insane! So many people! But it always seems the train were getting off of gets the most people on it..guess we just get lucky. I always manage to find a seat though:) we watched jersey girl on Netflix of course and then went to bed.

January 14 2013

It's snowing!! Yay guess that means I don't have to go for a ripen.whoops. Oh well! Today was another boring day. I spent the day doing homework and skyping mommy yay. I also started a book called swimsuits and I could barely put it down! It really makes me not want to talk to anyone that I don't know or else they'll kill me. That's what the book did for me. When trilby got back from class we made salad, soup, and chicken salad sandwiches and just hung out for the rest of the night.

January 13 2013

This morning i woke up and went for a long run through Hyde park. It's so beautiful I still get amazed every time i go through it. But today I went farther into it and went all the way around the lake in the back and ended up in the middle of Hyde park it was awesome! After that I did another Pinterest workout and showered. Me and trilby went food shopping for dinner at tesco which we found another one that was like 5 minutes away when we have been walking 2 miles to the farther one! We also got sketchbooks for our photography class. We went to church after that and then made dinner. We made salmon, mixed vegetables, and vegetable rice. And of course a glass of wine. Between church and dinner it made me feel a little more at home which was nice because I needed that. Church always makes it feel like I'm at home since it was something me and the whole family did every week it just sucks with them not being there. After dinner we watched the last song...I think we're going to end up every movie on Netflix by the end of this trip! I got to FaceTime aunt Tracey and the girls today! It was the cutest thing ever. She told me Kylie has tried skyping me everyday for the past week even when she was at her friends house for a sleepover. God I love her! She's too freakin cute. But it was really nice to see all of them. FaceTime is making this whole trip a little easier!

January 12 2013

I feel so upset today since its my dads birthday and I can't even be there for it. Ugh I miss home! But I woke up around 12 and did absolutely nothing all day! Me and trilby literally just cuddled up and watched movies (serendipity and when in Rome) so cute but it made us depressed haha. We made popcorn and later made pizza for dinner. We planned on going out and got all ready and cute and then Frankie wasn't here or anyone else and we were scared to go out by ourselves so we stayed in and watched another movie! What a waste of makeup! But we took pics anyway to make it look like we went out hahah. I felt like I was in high school again with Olivia since we always got all dressed up but had no where to go.

January 11 2013

Well today it was actually sunny out! So I finally got to wear my cute circle sunglasses! Yay! We had to do our ethnographic study presentation today but before that we got a tour of the senate house library at university of London. I went to bureau de change before getting on the train and exchanges $100 and only got 57 pounds out of it! I almost threw up because I realized that how ever much I brought is basically half over here! I'm gonna be so broke! Anyway after our tour me and trilby went to check out the gym and its an actual gym! I was soooo excited because I didn't know how I would go the months without one! And we get a free membership since its the student fitness center at ULU! Yay! Can't wait to get started there! There's a pool and a small indoor place to play soccer! We walked back to the London center to present and it actually turned out to be really boring. It took two hours to get through all the groups! Bt afterwards me me trilby wanted to dine out tonight so we found a small Italian ristorante and there was a piano there with a cute old lady playing It was all so adorable! There was a special where we got a salad a pasta and wine all for 10.95 not bad at all. Later we did a Pinterest workout and started to get ready. We planned on just taking the train to Piccadilly Circus and winging it. So we drank before going out obviously because drinks are so expensive. But we got off and ended up going to this place called the penthouse. The view was amazing I could see the eye and Big Ben and the whole city all lit up. It was beautiful. Aside from that though the club wasn't very good it was basically all Indians! I'm never going there again. But it was still fun to just go out and dance.

January 10 2013

I woke up and went for another beautiful morning run and got ready and went to school. I got to FaceTime with mommy this morning which was great to see her face! The class today wasn't too bad. It was contemporary photography and the teacher wasn't that boring. I actually really enjoyed the class and our discussion on the project we had to do which we had to make up on our own. We had to think of something that interested us and think of a way we can put it into photography. After class we went food shopping and made a good dinner of salad with feta, walnuts, cranberries, and vinaigrette dressing and then we bought sushi which was so good. Im starting to really miss my family and its only been a week! its hard being alone this far away with like one friend and no family. Anyways we were pretty bored after and called it a night early.