Weekend

This weekend I moved to Lee's house.  Saturday Lee came to pick me up at my flat at about noon and we came back here and relaxed for a bit.  We then watched THe Voice UK!  It is a great show here, I ahve not been watching the American one but I have been seeing this one.  After the voice Lee, Lucy, Sami and I went out to all you can eat sushi.  It was an amazing meal, great sushi and we loved it!
 Sunday, Lee took me to Birminigham University, his college.  His sister was moving some stuff back in after a break so we took another car so she could bring more stuff.  Lee walked me around the campus and showed me where he lived and his classroom buildings.  We then had a nice meal right outside of the campus then headed back.  Was a nice day and it was cool to see a British university.  Sunday evening we went out for a few drinks with Lee's good friend which I had yet to meet and his girlfriend.  It was nice meeting him.
Today, Monday, is my catch up day.  I am at Lee's house and I slept in late and am relaxing now.  It is nice just to relax because I have been very busy this semester.  I am planning on doing things this week but today I wanted to relax.
Looking forward to coming home but I am enjoying it so much here!

Exam Week

So this week has been exam week, I finished everything Tuesday ( even though it was due Wednesday).  Wednesday I woke up and everyone was going to the Harry Potter tour so I looked to see if there were tickets and there were, so spur of the moment, I went.  It was amazing!  We then had a meeting for our last money we got then I watched a massive soccer match.   Barcelona vs Chelsea.  Huge game!
Thursday, today, we had nothing to do so we went to Stratford mall where the Olympic stadium is.  I saw the stadium from one of the shops that overlooks it and there was the official Olympic shop!  It was awesome to see it all!
Tonight I am meeting Adam Isaacs ( from camp) and Lee for dinner and a drink.  I have not seen him since the beginning.
Tomorrow is packing day :( I dont want to!  I will go to Lee's on Saturday.  He is picking me up around noon from here and then be there for the next week.

Friday Night, Saturday, Sunday

Friday night after Kew Gardens Lee and I went to the Comedy Store.  It was 4 stand up comedians doing a show.  It was hilarious.  Saturday I went to Camden Market with some of the guys to help them pick out gifts for their sisters and moms!  It was nice!  FOr lunch we went to the Brunswick market and got a lot of great food.  Burrito, Smoothie, Brownie! MMM
Saturday night I went out with Lee and his friends to a place near my flat which was nice.  I met a lot of his friends that he went to school with so that was really good to meet them.
Sunday we went to Brent Cross which is a shopping mall, then we went on the London Eye!  It was during the day so it was nice.
This is exam week so I do not go to my internship but I have finals and papers.  I have my first one in a few hours, theater!  I hope it goes well!

Kew Gardens

I figured I would write about Kew Gardens.  It is a botanical garden.  They were amazing!  We stayed for a long time and I took a ton of pictures.  There was everything there from the oldest tree in the world, to curry trees, to fish tanks to flowers.  It was so great!

Spotted a Peacock!

Sitting on a Cactus, ouch!

Waterlilies!

Last Week of Classes

This week is our last week of classes, then next week is exam week.  It is starting to be a lot of work but I am handling it well and doing it in advance!
For theater this week we saw Duchess of Malfi.  Best play so far, it was incredible.  Since we did not have another class after this play ( our class was before the play) our teacher came to our house and everyone in the class meet after the play and we had pizza soda and discussed it.  It was really nice to discuss this becuase we loved it!
Tuesday we had an outing or Media and Society where we went to the Soho area and walked around and he pointed out the recording studios and he also told us about the history of religions in this area.  It was very interesting and we went into some different religious places.  For culture by design we had a guest speaker, he was amazing.  He is a film writer and he had us write our own first episode of a show in groups.  It is really interesting and he talked to us alot and it was amazing!
Thursday, today is my last day at my internship.
Tomorrow morning we are going to Kew Gardens.  It is about an hour away but supposedly amazing so that should be great!  Lee and I are going to a comedy club Friday night to hear them do comedy!  I am looking forward to that too!

Passover and Passover Weekend

I am going to do my best to remember everything we did, because my parents have the camera so I cannot look through the pictures to remind myself what we did!

Ok so my parents got in on Friday afternoon from Paris.  I met them at their hotel and we went to borough market for lunch.  We then went to the graffiti tunnel to see that and walked around the banks there.  This took most of the afternoon so after that we went back to our places and changed for seder.  We went to Lee's house for seder and it was really nice.  We took the tube into his area and he picked us up from the station.  After a pretty well done seder ( by Lee) we had soup and all the standards.  The matzoh ball soup was really good!  Lee led the seder very well and with some comedy to it.  Just like our seder's, theirs was a little crazy.  After a lovely seder and the meal we all just hung out.  It was Lee's family ( mom, dad and 2 sisters), his moms sister ( Lisa, John and their daughter Charlotte) and Lee's dads brother and mom (nana).  It was really nice just talking to all of them.  I had met all of them many times before.  They were really interested in American politics.  Lee and his dad drove us back to the city that night and on the way made a pit stop to Abbey Road.  We got our pictures and then his dad pointed out Paul McCartney London house and a few other famous people who lived around that area.  It was cool to see the Abbey Road Studios.
The next morning we woke up and started our day.  We went to Kensington Palace and went around there.  This is where WIlliam and Kate will be living, in Princess Margartes Hall.  The wing that people go in is full of history both old a new.  There is a Princess Diana's dress exhibit going on there which is what I was really interested in.  It had sketches of her dresses, pictures of her in her dresses and then the real dresses.  It was very cool to see!  From there we went to watch the Oxford, Cambridge boat race.  It is something that most people do not get to do so we were lucky with the timing. I had looked up where festivals were and where the race started and finished.  We went to the festival area and there was food, drinks and a big screen to watch the race.  We were right at the water at a park.  We saw the warm up racers go by but we watched the real thing on the big screen because we could not get a good spot on the water.  This race was a unique race.  Right after they had passed where we were ( we were all watching the screen) the boats stopped.  It is a race that they prepare for for a year, and they stopped.  They zoomed in closer and there was someone in the water.  A protestor ( protesting the elites) was there to ruin the race.  He was arrested and they had to figure out a way to restart the race.  They set them up in positions like they were before the protester stopped the race.  Close to the end of the race an Oxford oar broke, ruining their chances of winning.  Shortly after that one of the Oxford rowers passed out and the final ceremony did not happen because they had to take him to the hospital. I did not know before taking my parents it would be so eventful but it was great.
After that we went back and got ready to see the Lion King.   Lee meet up with us and came to dinner with us before the show!  The show was amazing!  It was incredible.  Everything about it was amazing.  After that my dad had to have his last beer in England so we went to a very traditional English pub after that.
In the morning Lee picked them up and we drove to the airport for their flight!
A great weekend with my parents!

This Past Weekend, with my parents!

This past weekend!!!!!

On Friday I woke up early to go get my parents from the airport!  Their plane landed a little late but it went well and then we took the tube back to my flat to drop stuff off.  They brought me so much food and so many goodies!  It was just like JMU they brought me banana bread, challah and some other things.  They even brought Lee his favorite salad dressing!  After that we dropped their stuff off at their hotel, about 5 minutes from me, then we went out!  We took the tube to London bridge.  We went to Borough market, which is the food market that is really good!  We sampled a lot of things and bought some snacks and just ate!  They had their cheesy potatoes and many other goodies!   We walked around there for a while and then we took a boat bus to Westminster area.  It was about a 30-minute ride but it was really nice because the tour guide on the bus told us what some buildings were and some history.  It was really funny and a nice day so it was great.  From there we walked around Westminster Abbey, Parliament and went down to Downing Street.   We just walked around it all and hung out.  From there we went to Trafalgar square, it is all walking distance which is nice.  We walked around there then headed to a pub for dinner! 

Saturday we woke up and went to Sir John Soane (a famous architects) house, which has become a museum.  My parents were looking into things that I had not done yet so that was really good!  We went on an alternative London tour after that was in east London.  It was a tour of the street art in this area and our tour guide gave us some history about the area but explained a lot of the street art and different artists.  We were talking about Pezz, a street artist, and ten we saw him!  It was very cool!  Great tour. From there we went to Notting Hill, which has the Portobello market.  We walked around that for a while.  It has antiques, food and jewelry!  It is massive!  After that we went back to the hotel to freshen up for dinner.  We took the tube close to Lees house and we went out to dinner with his family.  It was really nice! Good food.  We stayed at dinner very late and then Lee drove us back into the city, which was really nice.

Sunday we went to Brighton!  I had wanted to go for a while so it was nice.  Lee drove us to Brighton, which was nice so we did not have to take the tube or busses.  We got there and it was a really nice day!  There is not to much to do there just walk around and enjoy the pebble beach!  We walked around the Lanes some and had fish and chips.  They used to go to Brighton a lot and had it there a lot, so we figured we had to get it from the best fish and chips place, as Lee calls it.  It was very good!  We had a really nice day walking around and taking pictures!  From there we came back, about a 2-hour drive, and then I had some work to do. 

Monday, for theater class I saw the play the Recruiting Officer and it was amazing!!   Was a great play, they were in Bath and Stratford for the day so they were doing their own thing.  They are now in Paris, until Friday!