This week I saw…… S CLUB 7!!!! Well, it was more like S Cub 3 but it was still awesome. For those of you who don’t know who S Club is, they were a British band in the early 2000s who were very popular in Britain. They were decently popular on the radio in the states but were better known for their tv show on abc family. On the show they were living in Miami working at a hotel and performing most nights. During the short time we had cable in our house it was one of my favorite shows. Paul, Jo and Bradley are now doing a reunion tour and they came to a club in Brighton! It was so packed, everyone was wicked excited and I had an absolute blast.
Friday afternoon I took the train from Brighton to London! It only took an hour to get there and we were greeted by Lisa and Katie, friends from Clark who have been studying at the London School of Economics since September. Friday night we went to a bar called Roadhouse which was supposed to be American themed and was complete with Coke ads, a cowbell and a Harley. We got some happy hour drinks and then made our way to a club across the city. To get into the club you had to go through this tunnel and around the corner. The club was inside the tunnel walls and the floors inside were all pavement. There were a few different rooms playing different kinds of music which was nice and one room had a huge blowup Velcro wall. People put on Velcro suits, ran and threw themselves at the wall and stuck in all different directions. It was pretty neat. At one point we were all dancing in the main room and all of a sudden foam started pouring out of this huge cannon looking thing! We didn’t realize it was going to be a foam party but it turned out being really cool for a little while. By the end of the foaming there were at least six inches of foam on the floor and everyone was disgusting. On our walk back to Katie’s room it was raining and my shoes started to foam out the sides. Pretty nasty.
On Saturday we woke up and began our sightseeing adventures. We walked around the National Gallery, went across the river and saw some street performers and the London eye and then walked back across the river and walked past parliament and Big Ben. Then we went down past the president’s house and by Buckingham Palace. We hit all the major places we wanted to go, got a taste of the underground, their subway system, and rode on double decker buses. Although I had a really great time in London I’m glad I’m not studying there because everything is SO expensive. I’d be broke already. Riley and I took the train back to Brighton late Saturday night so were in London for a little over 24 hours.
Sunday I spent the day in Brighton, running errands and enjoying the beach and the beautiful sunset. I meant to go in to go food shopping but didn’t realize that grocery stores here close at 4 on Sundays! By the time we got there it was 4:30 so I have to go back today. Big bummer.
Today I did laundry, which is a process and costs money. I’ve never paid for laundry before so that we an experience. I also have to drag my laundry halfway across campus to the launderette so I suspect that my muscles will grow a bit
New things I’ve learned:
-paper is longer here and doesn’t fit in any of my notebooks. They call standard sized paper A4
-they use 4-ring binders instead of 3-ring
-new words: safe is slang and is of equal meaning to rad, tight, or sweet, mince is a term referring to meat meaning ground, such as ground meat for hamburgers, plaster means band-aid, someone who works at a cash register in a store when calling for the next person in line says, "can I help?" whereas we would just say "next".
Until next week!
It seems like you crammed quite a bit into your one day in London. Spoke to Sharlotte and she was pleased and excited by your phone call. I'll try to have her over to read your posting and to write a comment. How are your classes going?
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Hi Sweetie,
ReplyDeleteYour pictures are great. It looks beautiful there. I love you. Talk to you soon.
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