ThE DaYs ArE DwINdLiNg DoWn

Wednesday, December 10th

Today started off with the last day of history class, in which our incredibly sweet professor brought us all chocolates and champagne. We talked a bit about the English royalty as well, learning how useless the royal family really is. Whatever, I still think the traditions are cool.

I took a bit of a walk by myself after class, my final venture during everyone else’s Shakespeare class time. I went down Oxford Street with the intention of returning the book that I purchased for the Martin Frost workshop, and didn’t end up using. Of course, the walk was much more of an adventure than that. I love Oxford Street and the adventure it brings every time you pass down. Today, I ran into a group of musicians playing Christmas tunes on steel drums. Quite a festive and enjoyable afternoon. :)

After this, I went over to the Tower Hill area, took a walk past the Tower of London, across Tower Bridge, and down to the Design Museum. It was interesting and I spent a lot of time just looking through the gift shop- perhaps just as much time as in the actual museum. There were lots of very good books so I spent a lot of time looking through those and ended up purchasing a really nice one that was full of logo ideas. –awesome!

The rest of the museum consisted of three galleries. The first was furniture design throughout different time periods and locations. Another was pottery design, and the third was an artist who did a lot of artwork in the 60’s and 70’s.

I left to go back to my room as it was now approaching dinner time. Since we got all of our money off of our meal cards, Rachael, Cody, and myself have decided to spend most of our money doing things instead of buying food. Therefore, I bought the peanut butter, Rachael bought the jelly, and we split the cost of bread… and I have been living off of PB&J for the past few days. Yes, this has been my first PB&J experience… ever. I know, I’m a bit deprived. We still get one meal at ISH every day with the 2.30 on our cards per day, and I still plan on getting a final meal of fish and chips before I leave… but this way we save a little bit of cash.

That night, a group of us ended up drinking in the Wisconsin room. We have this poster that everyone is supposed to contribute artwork to, so we drew the tube map across the whole thing having a bunch of churches on one line and bars on the other, intersecting at ‘CHURCH,’ the infamous bar that is only open on Sundays, with every sinful activity you can imagine. We ended up heading over to the ISH bar with everyone, and met up with Colin as well. We were all havin a good time and I played some games with Chad, and at one point we all ended up on the roof terrace of ISH foolin around. Eventually we left to go back to Colin’s room where Rachael and I hung out with him for the evening, and yes, throwing more dish-packs all over the place. By the end of the night, Rachael and I each had half a bottle of straight whiskey and some strongbow… yea, we are idiots.

At some point during the day, Rachael, Cody, and I got our picture taken by the bus stop poster of Twilight. The movie is coming out soon, and Rachael and Cody are huge into the books, and I have started reading it too. It is ok, but I am not quite as hardcore. We are all going to go see it together when we get back to the states. There are billboards and signs all over the tube stops, phone booths, cabs, and busses all over London.