It's been a few days, so I'm planning on breaking up the posts into a part I and part II. Like? OK here it goes.Saturday: BIG TOURISTY DAY. Kinda.
I got off to a late start...finally caught up on some sleep. The lovely Eissell decided to wake up on Sat around 9ish..., waited a few hours, and then decided to take a nap. Girl didn't emerge from her room until 3. I love her. So while that was going on, I needed to work out some bank issues, which ended up in some complications and money transfered from the US but everything worked out in the end. After that, Eissell and I met up with Sarah, another US student studying at Queen Mary. And off into London we go! Except woops wouldn't you know it I was having issues with my Oyster card because I wasn't sure how to get my student discount and there was some lady yelling at the teller and then the machines weren't taking my money and ohmygosh we must have been in the station for at least 30 min. Sorry!
Well, after that mess we went to the British Museum. We only had about an hour and a half to explore but seeing as it was free we didn't mind. We went to the Egyptian section and saw lots of mummies and then worked our way into Medieval Europe, and then it progressed from there until we got to the 1900's with lots of Beautiful jewelry and pottery. Also saw some the remains from the Sutton Hoo ship wreck (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sutton_Hoo). All I could think of was Beowulf because they were from the same time period. Also while I was in museum I overheard a mum talking to her bored to death four year old about how St. Patrick got all the snakes out of Ireland by banging his walking stick (there was a very old walking stick from about year 500 on display) on the ground. Hurrah for St. Patrick because I hate snakes.
I was such a girl in the museum too because I loved all the Jewelry from the 1700 and 1800's and kept on pretending which ones I would have worn if I existed back then. Finally we had to go after a short British man chased us out.
Sarah, Eissell and I then ventured off the Covent Garden, which was near by. I would have liked it if it wasn't so crowded though. Lots and lots of tourists (I know I'm a tourist but still...) and also commuters rushing by not caring about me and my camera. I was very happy I saw Covent Garden and the church Eliza Doolittle sat under singing in My Fair Lady. I walked around the area, and discovered a large sign from the early 1900's talking about all the things not to do in the market, not like leaving your gross vegetables on the ground or else you may have to pay 10 shillings!
There were some markets that we browsed through, but it was about 7 o'clock then and we were hungry. After unsuccessfully finding anything good, Sarah found this amazing, relatively cheap Indian place and we ate there. I got delicious curry and poori. After dinner, we decided to head back. We were cold and had plans to go out later that night with our friend Lackshman.
Well for whatever reason we didn't go back out once we got to the dorms, and Eissell, Lackshman and I just stayed in my room discussing our plans to actually go out and looking up some fun gay bars. Why do I suddenly have the urge to go to so many gay bars? Probably because I just want the freedom to dance without thinking about any heterosexual male checking me out, for the time being.
Sunday I was my back to my studious self and after running some errands in the morning studied my Intro to Old English text book for hours at the Library. I enjoyed learning more about the history of the language and the culture than I did having to memorize bizarre spelling that doesn't resemble English at all and trying to figure out how to pronounce it. I'll tell you this though: ic lufie þe (it means I love you).
Monday night...I'll get to that tomorrow. It involves meeting up with the lovely Michell and exploring some more parts of London.
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