Logistics of my adventures lately

Let's try to catch you up. Well first off. You have to take classes while you study abroad. The plus side is they're only a few days a week usually and you get longer weekends. It can be hard to focus on school while being abroad but I found that it helps me realize my routine, my pattern, and grounds me here. Sure I could go spend all my money and run around Europe but these classes offer so much insight and history to London that it gives me more (free!) ideas of things to do whilst my friends and I are here. I'm taking International Relations from an Italian professor that is so funny! He makes the funniest jokes and is pretty up on American culture. It seems like it may be one of my favorite classes haha. I'm also taking Popular Views of Christians and Muslims in the Middle Ages and Beyond with Carolyn Anderson from UW and she is amazing! She is so funny and brilliant! She has the Anglo-Saxon version of Beowulf memorized. That's how crazy brilliant she is. There's also British Life and Culture which I haven't taken a class in yet. Contemporary European Art... now this is a class. I have a British Professor that takes us to Museums as field trips for a majority of the semester. I cannot wait to continue on and see more! There aren't much updates on classes considering I've only had a week in them but I'm really excited to see what I can/can't learn haha. Art History will be a challenge.

I went to the National Gallery with Taylor. It was gorgeous! The art is spectacular! We tried to analyze the meaning of all the paintings. "Everything has a meaning in art, everything" Dr. Bolton told us that day one. So we went and explored the museum on our own a little. Then we went to Trafalgar Square and took really cool dorky pictures! and you could see Big Ben from where we stood! Then had lunch at a "Pret A Manger" store that we eat at all the time. It's really affordable and has wifi. The next few days Taylor, Jamie and I mostly wandered around haha... Oxford Street shops... just sort of explored. Then we went to the University of London Union called the ULU (Yoo-loo). It was a complete bust except for cheap drinks and meeting up with friends. The DJ was terrible.

touristy things as well but it was still really cool! Then we went to Alexandra Palace that Taylor found out was built by Victoria for the duchess of york but it's burnt down twice and been rebuilt. It's now an expensive ice rink. It used to have the worlds largest organ in it's ballroom.