[Day 90] Abbey Road

Today Kate, Erin and I went to Abbey Road to the crosswalk that's on the cover of the Beatles album! We took the central line and jubilee line St. John's Wood and walked down the street to the crosswalk. It was so cool! It was just  regular zebra crosswalk, but when you crossed the street the cars actually stopped for you to walk. That never happens in London, ever. I guess those drivers expect it on Abbey Road though. They beeped at us a few times though because we were walking slowly across it to take pictures. We walked to Abbey Road Studies to take pictures of the studio that they recorded the majority of their albums at. There is a wall in front of the studio that has loads of graffiti on it. There is a lot of Beatles lyrics and love notes to John Lennon. Some of the things were pretty cool, I'll have to post some pictures. Apparently the town has to repaint the wall every three months because there's so much graffiti. Also they had to remove the Abbey Road street sign on the corner and put it on the wall of a building because it's stolen so often.

I took a picture with my terrible towel in front of a different Abbey Road street sign so I can send it into The X website, "where has the towel Ben?"

This morning I finished and turned in my history paper! Yesterday I had a class and a meeting with one of my seminar tutors, Helen. She's working on her master's and is my Lit in Time seminar leader, I like her a lot. I went to Poetry seminar where we read some poems out loud, I read Elizabeth Bishop's "Sestina" and then the seminar leader, Sam, ended class early so that we could all go to the pub together. Second day in a row that the teacher took us to the pub. This time I didn't go though because I needed to come home so Kate and I could write our papers.

Later in the night I went to Fielden to hang out and went into central with Talhah, Vijay, and Vivek. We ended up at this club called Penthouse, you had to take the lift to the top floor and you could see a lot of London skyline out of the window, including Big Ben and the London Eye. Someday I went a penthouse in NYC. That would be the life. Just an apartment in NYC would be nice actually...I'm thinking on 2nd or 3rd somewhere in the 60's? Haha no but I don't know. I just want to live there.


Anywayyy I just ate dinner at Mucci's, they had free food for study abroad students. I'm not sure what I'm going to do tonight, but I'm done with my work for my time here!

Going to Abbey Road today reminded me of the question that always comes up in my mind when considering the Beatles, would 'Hey Jude' have been as big of a hit if the name wasn't Jude? What if it was called 'Hey Mauve' or 'Hey Sue' or 'Hey Deb'? Any ideas?

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