London Day 19

So forgot to post yesterday so I'll start with that.

Laura and I got up early and went to Harrods and this sketchy...sorry...dodgy little pound shop. We walked which wasn't too bad, don't recall how long it took but probably only like 20min or so. You figure by the time you get into an Underground station and walk and go up the stairs and various escalators it takes less effort to walk....taking the bus is even easier.

Harrods is CRAZY. It's I mean kinda like the Macy's in NYC but much more high end and it has food. So the goal is to find something under a pound for Devising London that we can improvise with in class tomorrow. We first walk in and see a rack of hair clips...like run of the mill hair clips you would by anywhere in a pack of two. These had glitter on them so they were a little more fancy but I mean at home they're what a few dollars? So yea these hair clips were 250 pounds ( I really need to find the symbol for pounds)...thats $500, for a plastic hair clip. It was outrageous. I mean in situations like that I like to act cool and not be all weird about how expensive things can be but I mean $500 for a plastic hair clip...with a little glitter. So yea pretty much figured we were out of luck for this assignment but we went up and tried our luck in the kids/toys section. Once we walked by the little Armani suits we found the toys which were not too bad. I found noise putty which I think is like silly putty but it makes noise....I dunno I didn't open it. The most exciting part was that they were playing music from High School Musical. I enjoyed that...a lot.

Before leaving we checked out the Food Courts where I got that amazing chocolate thing as mentioned before. There was a lot of food, it seemed like there were a lot of Sushi bars too....that part kinda smelled...I preferred the bakery area. Oh and the Harrods Gift area was cool, some cute touristy stuff.

So next was the 99pence store which I thought I found online before we left but we couldn't find it once we got to where we thought it was. So we ended up at this weird little pound store attached to the back of a post office. We had a harder time finding something there for under a pound then we did at Harrods. The lady tried to help us who worked there but she was confused and though we were doing something for a marketing class. Laura got a can of air freshener and I got a washcloth....no idea what were suppose to do with them.

Laura had to be to class at 2 so I took the bus over with her and then made my way over to Woolworths to get some plastic containers and I also got a poster of Ratatouille. Then came the grocery store where I picked up stuff to make Shepards Pie for the week. Being a big fan of Sweeney Todd I was a little cautious about buying ground beef in London but it turned out to be pretty good. They didn't have creamed corn though which is the best part and I tried to make my own which really didn't turn into anything but it didn't ruin it so that was good. So I ate and watched a movie until I finally fell asleep.

Unfortunetly I was woken up at 5:45am by the fire alarm. So it was the scariest thing ever because I had no idea. But I got dressed and walked down the five flights of stairs. For some reason everyone I went and talked to commented on how I was wearing jeans and I dunno I didn't think it was a big deal that I got dressed to go wait with a bunch of people I don't really know in the streets of London. Someone asked if I had just gotten in....it really seemed to baffle them. I was excited about the number of people I knew to talk to though. I haven't seen everyone in a group so big so it was like a buffet of friends. But I guess people flooded one of the first floor kitchens because thats the type of people that live here and in the process not only set off the alarm but broke the alarm system in the entire building. This meant the RAs had to patrol the building for the rest of the night making sure that people were aware in the event of an actual fire. I'm pretty sure if you told us RAs at Babson that we would walk out. I wonder what compensation is here. Also, they like stay in the building...please if there was a fire I would be very far away from the building...not holding the doors for everyone.

So yea of course I get back into bed and people start cooking because well again they have the need to make noise and eat at all hours of the day. Well, except for the normal hours. Really who needs to be cooking at 6am. Because of all the cooking being done I've realized that it always smells like onions here.

Outside though I was talking to more people who live on the interior of the building and I like feel bad because we complain so much but then I mean when you haven't slept in 3-4 weeks it's really hard not to.

Today again, Laura and I woke up early with the intention of buying and sending out cards and postcards but it didn't really happen and we ended up at McDonalds. Oh well. Class wasn't too bad. I brought my laptop but it's weird when no one else is using one. I feel really guilty. Yea not really much happened. We went to the grocery store again I got some cool sweet and sour sauce stuff to put over chicken and rice which will be dinner once my Shepards Pie runs out. Last night left me pretty tired so hopefully I'll pass out soon....I have to remember to write my journal for class tomorrow. Hmm I should get sleep so that I have energy for yoga. I'm nervous, I'm not very good at it and she comments on me more than others...eh. Okay, I'm still hungry time to have dessert maybe. Post Later, Jeannie