This week has been so busy! I feel like I haven't written at all, so I'll start with Tuesday. Tuesday I had two classes, Literatures in Time and Poetry. My Poetry lecture is so incredibly boring, I didn't go this week. My professor is like a tree hugger hippie woman and I never really understand what she's saying in lectures. I don't think anyone does. I didn't go to lecture but I did go to seminar. Half the class wasn't there. Everyone was probably writing their paper, we had a 2000 word one due on Wednesday. After my classes were done I went to Camden with Vijay to go to dinner with some of his friends from high school. We went to this restaurant called York and Albany and there's some famous chef there, Gordon Ramsey. It was such a fancy dinner I didn't know what to do with myself. It was a three course meal and literally the only things I knew on the menu were two of the desserts. I can't even tell you what I ordered because I kind of just guessed. I liked my first course, my second course was kind of gross, and the dessert was delicious. I felt so proper because of the fancy restaurant and three courses, and on top of that Vijay's friend is studying at Cambridge so he was talking about all things Cambridge (like croquet and gowns and doing intense research). Needless to say, I didn't have much to contribute to the conversation. After dinner the four of us went to Leicester Square and got drinks. His friends left and Vijay and I hung out in Piccadilly for a while before going back to QM.
Wednesday morning I woke up super early to finish my two papers (two English papers) and then I went to meet PJ at Mile End station. I kind of guessed when he was going to be there and I forgot how long customs would take so I was there for longer than I meant to be. We went back to campus and he took a little nap while I went to the library to print my papers and turn them in. That took like an hour and a half because I had to go through and cite them, which was super annoying because they don't use MLA format here and it's just difficult. At two a bunch of us (me, PJ, Kate, Sammie, Talhah, Hannah, Erin, Vijay, Matt, and Joe) met to go to the grand opening of Nando's for lunch. Nando's is this fantastic UK restaurant that has all different kinds of chicken and sauce. You can order a half chicken, a quarter chicken, chicken wings, a chicken burger, anything. They also have really good hot sauce. I got a chicken burger with cheese and chips.
After lunch, some of us went to see Harry Potter! There is a cheap theater down the road (only 4 pounds) and the theater was better than I expected it to be. The movie was good, there were a lot of awkwardly funny parts that I liked. I think if you separate the books and movie, the movies are much better. PJ fell asleep half way through because of jet lag and no sleep. It was pretty cool to see the movie in England though, especially the parts that were in London (like Shaftsbury Avenue).
Through my Villanova class we got free tickets to 39 Steps and I got an extra one so that PJ and I could both go. The show was at the Criterion in Piccadilly at 8 that night. We were going to get dinner/walk around there but it was really cold and we didn't really have enough time. The theater was cool because it was really small and the seats were close together, like a Broadway theater, and we were in the third row. The show was so funny, it was basically the same four actors playing every role. I'm glad we saw it.
On Thursday I went to Queen's Park to volunteer at Salusbury World. I finished my graffiti artwork on the wall and helped with paperwork about one of the school's enrollment. There are a lot of Somalian refugees here and also a handful of Afghani ones. We're learning about that kind of stuff in my Villanova class. Obviously Thanksgiving isn't celebrated here, so it wasn't really a special day but it was cool to volunteer on what would be Thanksgiving. I came back to Mile End and PJ and I got ready and went to go see Wicked.
We ran into Erin on the tube and she told us that Wicked was showing in Victoria, not Piccadilly like I thought. I'm so glad we ran into her because the show was sooooo good and I'm so happy we saw it. It was my favorite show that I've ever seen. I think we both enjoyed it a lot. The singing was awesome and the wicked witch was so green. It was sick.
Friday morning we went into central to see all of the touristy things. We saw Big Ben, the British Cavalry Museum (all of Parliament St), Trafalgar Square and Buckingham Palace. At the British Cavalry Museum I stopped to pet one of the soldier's horses. After we walked around that area (and froze because it's soooo cold now) we walked over Westminster Bridge to South Bank. The view from Westminster Bridge is awesome. We went on the London Eye and it was the perfect time of day to go on there, about 4:15 when the sun was setting and it was a clear sky. After the Eye we walked through the Christmas market and met Sammie, Kate and Hannah and went back to Mile End. Kate, PJ and I cooked dinner and then Kate and I went to the medic's party at the Griff Inn. Seeing Wicked and going on the London Eye were so much fun and I think PJ really enjoyed doing those two things too.
This morning PJ, Kate, Erin and I went to Oxford. I'll write about that tomorrow because there's a lot of stuff to say. It was really really cool though I'm so happy we went. I got this awesome Oxford University crew neck sweatshirt. It's so warm and comfy.
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