Second lecture of my only class and I was falling asleep...great way to start the semester haha. We had our second class lecture today at 10 am this morning and staying awake through it was quite a challenge. Even though I've been going to bed at a fairly good time, I'm still exhausted and no matter how interesting a class is sometimes the head bob is just bound to happen. O it definitely happened this morning but don't worry it wasn't just me...pretty sure everyone was falling asleep this morning haha. The sad part is, is that the lecture was actually really interesting and it was the same guy who did our first one.
He gave us a history of London the city and the parts that I remembered were really interesting. London as a city has such a rich culture and history that I never even knew about. London is acutally the largest city in Britain and Europe and the people here speak over 300 different languages which makes it the most linguistically diverse city in the world! Bet you didn't know that because I surely didn't. He gave us a background of the founding and the different boroughs and London was actually established by the Romans...weird but not surprising. We talked about the mix of different cultures and we spent a little time discussing how the Parliament works. We even watched a debate between the Prime Minster and the leader of the opposition party and that was wayyyyy weird and different than things here. They like hardcore debate and basically roast each other on different issues facing the country and it was so weird. Our lecturer said that its not personal and that's just how things work over here but it seemed pretty personal to me. If what I saw in the video ever went down in the US some politicians would definitely get their panties in a wad. I liked how they were much more to the point here though in that aspect because I feel like a lot more stuff would get done but enough about politics haha.
We hit up H&M after class and let me tell you, it was very hard not to buy anything. Everything was so cute but I resisted the urge to buy anything and walked out empty handed. I keep telling myself that I've only been here a week and need to wait so I'm trying to but it's getting very difficult haha...and TopShop is now having a sale so I'll probably be hitting that up this weekend. Anyway we went to Marks & Spencer for lunch and hopped on the Tube to go back to the Notting Hill market. Sadly when we got there, none of the vendors were open :( we think that the street vendors don't come today so we are going to try to go over there again when all of them are open. It was nice to walk around all the little shops on the street though because the weather is so nice today and we really didn't have anything else to do. One thing that I was super tempted to buy was a Belgian waffle covered in chocolate and ice cream...another day it will be mine haha. There are so many places to buy sweets here it's ridiculous but I guess that's the way it is everywhere. Another weird thing about London is that they don't have Mexican restaurants. One of the girls I was with really wanted to buy some salsa but it is literally no where to be found. So weird how different the food is here...guess I'm just used to having everything in the US and that's not how it is everywhere else.
After wondering around Notting Hill for a couple hours, we started to get really tired so we hopped back on the Tube and headed back home. Sitting down never felt so good haha. My feet are definitely not used to all the walking and no matter how comfortable you think a pair of shoes is, it will get uncomfortable after wearing them here. Now I know why everyone here is so skinny because they literally walk EVERYWHERE. I like it because everything is so close but you just feel pooped at the end of the day because you've been on your feet all day. I do miss being able to drive though because sometimes I want to just run over somewhere and I can't so it's a tradeoff. I don't know if I'll want to live in a city when I graduate but I guess this will be a great trial run so we'll see!
Tomorrow we have a daytrip to Oxford for my class and I'm pretty excited minus the fact that we have to leave at 8:30. O well I'd rather get up and see and do things than sleep all day anyway so I don't really care. I hope it will be interesting but who knows what we'll be doing there. Lots of pictures will be taken I'm sure and I've probably already taken over 200 pictures and I've been here a week...that's ridiculous. I know I'm going to forget what some of the pictures are of too haha. Ok now I'm rambling...who knew blogging would be so addicting? I actually really enjoy it though because it helps me remember what I do everyday. Hope y'all are enjoying reading it as well! Anyway no more rambling so cheers for now!
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