London Day 14

2 weeks ago I was just about making my way through customs.....today it feels like I've been here forever.

After posting last night I hung out and watched movies and partook in McFlurry Monday in which a few of the Americans in my dorm head to McDonalds for ice cream. They're 99p ( 99 cents kinda to the British....$1.98 in America) so that's pretty cheap so we like to indulge. Of course the machine was broken so they kinda just handed us vanilla ice cream with candy on top. Once I got back to the dorm I feel asleep to Roberta a Fred Astaire/Ginger Rodgers movie....LOVE THEM! I think I have only 1 more with me though that I haven't seen.

Today was busy. I find either my days are either very lame or very busy...I can't seem to find a happy medium.

I woke up and went grocery shopping with Laura...did pretty well, I got: cream cheese, bagels, individually wrapped chicken breasts (the exciting find of the day), red pepper, onion, mushrooms (I'm sure mom, you can guess what I'm making), sugar (because it was less work to just buy some then keep stealing it from McDonalds), milk and a like microwave meal but they're classier here...I hope it's good. But yea should be enough to get me through the weekend so I don't have to make the trek back to the big store for a little while. I need to do wash so I'll go pick up detergent at the little Sainsbury down the street tomorrow before class.

So we came back to the dorm ate lunch and then went to the Girl Scout headquarters here because Laura's Aunt wanted patches for her daughters. It was..cute? I dunno the people were really nice and offered to take us on a tour but we had to get back in time for class. There was an itty bitty gift shop with some neat stuff...but alas I restrained myself as badly as I wanted to buy a new Girl Scout Fleece Pullover. We did ask if they had cookies, they don't, but the girl went off about biscuits in Australia....i dunno.

After is was on to Leisure and Recreation Development. I think the professors all have ADD here because they never teach more than one week in a row. Today our prof was a woman from Japan who didn't speak really clear English. She was nice but it was very hard to keep from laughing since all we did was talk about who provides leisure and why it is important.....for 2 hours. At least Laura, Aaron and I got in a group with another American for the group project so it should be easier now.

OH! I learned how to use the printers. That was exciting. It's similar to Babson in the way that you have to release print jobs at a printer....the only difference being you have to pay for everything you print.

We we're let out of class almost an hour early and Laura and I headed over to the Bayswater tube stop to go see Sweeney Todd. The movie theater was in the closest thing to a mall we've seen. It wasn't really big but it was cool. We got there too early so we went to Burger King and did the 99p menu thing.

The screen was soo small...like 4 times the size of our television...well maybe a little bigger....but not worth paying to see something there. We were at a preview of the movie since it doesn't come out until Friday....it was cool to very easily be the only person there who had seen it already since it's been out over a month in the States. I was a little less disappointed with it the second time around since I knew what to expect. I still have issues with the fact that he builds his barber chair and that the gore was way too fake when I always thought the show was as classy as they could be with it....well at least the revival was...the original cast I guess it pretty much was just all slit the throats. But yea I like Depp as Todd.....but you can't even pretend to compare Carter to Angela Lansbury and Patti LuPone.

So now I am completely exhasted but don't need to wake up until late-ish tomorrow since Devising London isn't until 2...speaking of which I have to write my journal entry and pretend to be moved by Primrose Hill. Tomorrow again will be busy because I am going to see a play after class which gets out at 5. Present Laughter, I'll let you know how it is. It's 3 hours long so I really hope it's good and funny.

I'm trying to think if anything else exciting happened...I'm sure it did and I always think of things throughout the day but forget them once I sit down to type this. The cops were really nice to us today when we needed directions to the movie theater...like really nice...it was refreshing.

The girls in class were really rude. I think it was because of the professors accent and our inability to understand her. The funny part was I turn around and the girl has out an English Dictionary Translator because shes from another country and didn't understand some of the words the professor was using. I thought that was classic.

I almost died. I guess the cross walk like changed real fast or I'm all of a sudden colorblind because the light showed the little green walking man so I went and then found Laura like dragging me across the street just as a car came whizzing by. I was oblivious so it scared her more than me but I live to tell the tale so it's all good. But right across the street there was a movie rental place with a BIG Sully and Mikey from Monsters Inc, that was pretty cool and next door was a Gourmet Burger Kitchen but we refrained from getting Oreo Milkshakes.

Haha the little wooden penguin I have is like angled so it looks like he's trying to open my DVD case with his beak.....hmm yea that's the cue that I have nothing more to talk about...I'll post tomorrow, Jeannie