You can buy loads of different kinds of foods: there's bread, muffins, cakes, sandwiches, vegetables, fruits, meats...everything. Today I took a risk and bought eggs, non refrigerated ones. I bought a half dozen eggs for 1.25. All I've the eggs I've seen here are orangish brownish and these ones were no different. I thought that was everything for me when I saw the most delicious looking bread ever. I stopped and bought a half ring of an Italian loaf of bread. It is so good! I can't stop eating it.
It's nice how everything in this area isn't as commercialized and regulated as I'm used to at home and probably in other parts of London. I like that I don't always have to go to a big supermarket in order to find cheap stuff, sometimes I can just buy it off of the street! The bread is so delicious.
This morning I had a lecture and a seminar, Representing London. My professor has such a funny accent, he's from New Zealand. It's almost more formal than British, but I can't quite put my finger on it. As of now, this is my least favorite class. That's strange to me because it's a combination of English and history, both of which I like, but it's just a little boring. We're studying what life in London was like in the 18th century and reading what people wrote about it then. It's just not very interesting to me right now, but that could always change.
I still can't get over how beautiful Greenwich was yesterday. I also had no idea it was so close to London, it's was about 30 minutes away. When we were standing on a hill at the observatory in Greenwich you could even see the London skyline in the background.I'm so happy I went there, I don't think I would have chosen to go there myself. It's so pretty and green though, and yesterday was an awesome day to go.
It's crazy but I'm finally starting to feel like a real Londoner! I find myself looking right first when I'm going to cross the street. I know where the expensive parts of town are and want to stay away from them when buying things. I know that "cheers" means "thank you," it's not a toast. I'm still working on the accent...I'm usually really good at accents but it's hard to get this one perfect because they have such different phrases than we do.
For the past couple of days the weather has been beautiful. It definitely does rain here a lot, but I was actually expecting it to be rainy and foggy all the time. Usually it's sunny out when it's not raining, like today. Today is really warm too, I'd say in the high 50s maybe. I'm going to go for a run in a little bit along the canal. The thing I don't like about the weather here is that it changes so quickly. In the morning it'll be cloudy, the day sunny, and at night it'll get really cold.
Here are more pictures of Greenwich!
Speaking of pictures, I've started my own Shutterfly website. I'm uploading all of my pictures from London to the website so that everyone can see it. It's a public site so if you're not friends with me on Facebook (I have pictures on there) you can look at them on Shutterfly. Just a warning, I'm not done messing around with it yet so I only have about 100 pictures uploaded and none of them have captions yet. Hopefully soon I'll upload all of my pictures and get to label all of them. For now if you want to see what I have done, A Day in the Life. Click there!
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