[Day 34 continued]

I love this picture, it's so beautiful. I took it in Wales at Tintern Abbey.

Today I had one class, Representing London in the 18th Century. That class is really boring. Maybe it'll get more interesting after we do our walking assignment in two weeks, where we have to pick one of three routes to do a walking tour of and write about it.

Something I meant to write about last night but forgot was about the tax cuts that were announced yesterday. For my Villanova class on Monday we each had to bring in an article from the various tabloids and newspapers in London and my article was from the Daily Mirror about the tax cuts. One of the things that the Coalition's doing is changing the way that students have to pay for university. I guess that university is largely paid for by tax payer money, so students usually pay about 3,000 pounds a year for university. The plan is to eliminate that and have students pay for their own education. I think that would raise it to about 8-10,000 pounds. There are protests and stuff going on all over the place. Yesterday there was a mini protest on campus, not a lot of people but there were people with megaphones yelling about it and a lot of kids handing out flyers. Also there was an organized protest in Westminster across the street from Parliament last night around 5, but obviously I wasn't there.

Just thought that was interesting and wanted to mention it. I'm going to my volunteering meeting in a half hour so I'll get to see a different part of the city. I'm not sure what town it's in but I know it's in northwest London and I'm in east London, so that'll be cool. It's just kind of far away. Also Erin is coming to visit in less than a week! I'm excited :)

M