Tuesday's class was dedicated to showing us examples of and explanations of our assignments for Patrick (our teacher). He also talked a little about BBC and went on a cyclist rant. He says that they think they are "masters of the universe with their spandex bottoms". He doesn't like them because they don't follow traffic rules and do whatever they want on the road. Anyway for our first assignment we have to write a profile for someone that is current in the news. I think I have an idea of who I want to write about but I'm still thinking of other ideas. I'm not sure exactly what is going on in celebrity world so I need to talk to Google and find out. A funny story that he shared with us is how he met his wife back in their teens. He said, "She told me to go away. I was drunk. But I didn't and now we've been married for 32 (I think) years. She still tells me to go away when I'm drunk." He was a journalist so he talked about that for a bit and left us with "it's easier to search and destroy rather than promote and praise".
Yesterday we also had our first coffee break! I'm telling you, this is the best place. For our 1/2 hour we went to Cafe Nero and I enjoyed a nice Caffe Latte for take away (to go/take out). I can't just order my usual black coffee here so instead of espresso, I ventured for that latte. It was fantastic.
After class we went to the ISA office to grab some free cokes and I had a couple questions involving some of our excursions, particularly what they are doing next Wednesday because I have an excursion with the school so I cannot go to Camden Market. So I got my answers, grabbed a few pamphlets and left Emily to go meet up with Lindsey. Oniwa and CJ also met up with us and we all went to grab some lunch. We stumbled upon a crepe restaurant and decided on that. I had the hazelnut and dark Belgium chocolate one and it was loaded with hazelnuts. It was so delicious and I definitely want to go back to try others.
After lunch it was off to the Victoria and Albert Museum which is unbelievable in size. You could spend 5 days alone in there if you wanted to see everything. Lindsey's mom had made her a cheat card of the rooms that were a must so we followed that and looked at a few others that peaked our interest. Some of the rooms were: Ballgowns, Jewelry, Architecture, Iron casting, carvings, photography, a library, 20th century, Roman Art, Renaissance, and other paintings, sculptures. Everything was beautiful and simply amazing and the museums are completely free to get in.
We finished the list in time to get over to Harrod's for afternoon tea. Harrod's is HUGE. I don't even know what is all in there because it's almost impossible to know. I saw Prada downstairs so I know that is there lol. They have a toy kingdom, a pet kingdom, a gift store (which is like the size of JC Penney itself), and of course floors worth of appareal and housewares and decor. It just goes on and on. Tea is only part of the floor and that is a whole restaurant itself. To find the bathroom you have to hike to it. It was crazy. Anyway for tea, I had the afternoon special which was similar to English Breakfast. There were 4 sandwiches- egg, salmon, apple and something that I didn't know. There were raisin and plain scones and for dessert there were two tarts, a fruit cake, macaroons, and something with a mousse in the middle. I loved everything except some of the desserts. I enjoyed the tarts but I'm not a fruit cake person and the other two had a really rich chocolate part that was just two sweet for my liking. I think I'm really losing my sweet tooth. Maria was the one that went with us and it was quite fun with all the girls. I bought some gifts there but I cannot share my purchases on here obviously!
Afterwords I was separated from Jourdan and Jen so after some confusion on where we were meeting, I just rode the tube on my own and meet up with Jourdan at the Apple store. Jen left because she didn't want to wait among all of the people in the store. They were all waiting to see Channing Tatum and Matthew McConaughey. They were there for an interview about Magic Mike and I know that can be found on itunes. I took a bunch of pictures and I know that I have a few that turned out so as soon as I can post them on facebook, I will! I didn't go because I am a super fan or anything (I only just learned the correct order for Channing Tatum) but it was pretty cool and now that I have seen him in person, I can see why girls think he is cute haha. After the interview we walked around the building to find them and stumbled upon their car. Nothing too exciting happened but their were flocks of girls running down the street after them. Oh and we saw some paparazzi.
Then we went out to a pub called O'neils and I had Magner's original which is an Irish hard cider made out of 17 different apples. It was delicious. DAD- there was a drink called Black Beard and the description was "spice up the black stuff- Morgan's Spiced rum, PEPSI, and a Guiness head". So that was my first encounter with Pepsi here! and I think it's funny that instead of Captain and Coke, it's Morgan's and Pepsi.
Music- We started off with Katy Perry "I kissed a girl" went to AC/DC then Michael Jackson. Just sayin'. That is a pretty mild list though, so I'll keep listening for nonsensical list!
After that I rode the tube home and now I'm up again for another day!
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