for all those who love London

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Tuesday, 1 February 2011

classes and internship

today we had our first Gothic lit class and the first British heritage and culture. in the gothic lit course it is very very obvious that we are samford students, there is but one boy in our class. we began to go over frankenstine and will finish it on Thursday. after that class we had lunch which was going to be pleasurably long until it was one when we found out that our teacher was here an hour early! so we snarfed down our food and headed to class. at the beginning everyone was falling asleep not because he was exactally boring nor was he exciting but still we were all so tired, taking notes was the only way i could stay awake. the class ended up being good but it was just a slow start, while being good the class has been so far about the religion of the britians. the funny thing is that we americans and learning about british heritage from a scottish man. since he is scottish/british in the middle of class we had a tea break. immediately following class me and the other girl who is going to be working in a school and we took the tube waay out there and then a bus and then walked but we found it! then we came back and started again to my internship site. mine was not very hard to get to at least by the tube, getting out of the tube station was. paddingtion station was absolute chaos! it is also a train station and man are those confusing! it took me a very long while to find where i was supposed to go to get to the street. when i did finally get to the street i wanted was very sketchy... it was like a alley way it might not in the light but when i got there it was after 5 and the sun sets here about 4. so i walk through the sketchy part of it and come to the hospital which is called queen elizabeth the queen mothers hospital... there can't be a queen elizabeth queen mother.... cause there have only been two queen elizabeths and one was the virgin queen and the other is still reigning.... unless they mean elizabeth of york who was so long ago uniting the houses of york and lancester before the tudors, or if their has been a married into queen elizabeth i guess that wouldn't count in the count of queens for their names. well i wouldn't find out anything about it until thrusday afternoon when i have my interview.
seeing as how i've been very distractable while writing this message i have successfully washed my clothes  note i did not say washed and dried, for the dryer here is not very good.... even when i took out all of my shirts it still did not completely dry my socks and underwear, they are now completing their drying layed out on my desk, and all my shirts are downstairs on a drying rack seeing as how my room is very narrow and tiny, my cave at the old lake house is bigger, last semesters dorm room was way bigger, my freshman dorm room was even bigger and that was a single, so there is no room in here for both them and me. now if i was going to be leaving my room for the whole day then i might have been able to leave them in here if i could find a rack to put them on.... maybe i could have borrowed my next door neighbors top bunk as well as using my bunk and ladder... that could work. maybe.
that has pretty much been the escapades of the day except for two things
1) the british do not use .com they use .co.uk so i'm wondering did the internet start in america? or what? i've never had to use it anywhere else other than america till now so i don't know what other countries use, although i do know that many things you want to use from america can't be used here and that makes me sad at times
2) i tried to make an omelet with spinach in it that kinda failed.... i made it, it just turned into scrambled omelette's and the eggs here taste a good bit better, although that might have been the fact that it was almost 8 and i was starving.
off to read the newspaper and go to bed
from london with love

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