Hey all,
So, I decided to post a random one up here with random information on it [smile].
For anyone coming to London: Watch out for the cars....[smile], you think I'm joking and laugh now but once you come over here you will know that your life is very much in danger when you simply attempt to cross the street and get 4 horns honking at you. And a few might say "girl, it's just 'cause you're american and you're used to cars driving on the other side of the street!" But this is NOT true! It has nothing to do with being american...okay, well maybe a little...but even the true Londoners have issues crossing the street. Drivers here are just cruel!
In London, drivers have the right of way: Pedestrians watch out!
London shoes beat Paris shoes hands down!
One of our first adventures in Scotland was eating at McDonalds. Whit and I decided to take our food up stairs and enjoy some peace and quiet [away from the crazy goth teeny-boppers]. So we sit there for like, 5 min. [maybe], and what do you know, a group of like, 8 follow us up there and sit the next table over. So I'm rolling my eyes because they're loud and obnoxious and I was enjoying the quietness of the upstairs of McDonalds and Whit looks over to me and in a louder whisper [she still hasn't gotten the whole quiet whisper down yet:] she says to me "Do you know what language they're speaking?" And I kinda smirk and answer "English." She stares at me and says "No Way!" and then we laugh and listen....and just like I said, it was English, but wow! Totally hard to understand it. My neighbor back home told Mom that I wouldn't be able to understand, and I was like: Puh-leese, if I can make it in Paris not knowing French then Scotland won't be nothing!....wow though, I was sorta wrong! We could understand mostly, but there were a bunch of times where we looked at the Scotsman/woman in a state of "I have no idea what you just said".
There is a song playing through my head over and over again [well, at least the part that I can remember] and it goes like this: "Baby-cakes... you're the one, that I love...." it's kind of a dorky song, but catchy [smile].
There are a bunch of songs here that are remakes, but a lot of them are really good.
I'm going to buy a pair of stilletoe's eventually [and just an fyi, I still can't spell (thank you Mom for pointing this out last time:).]
I miss Mountain Dew, but luckily [grin!], there is a place that is going to be getting a shipment in the next week or so of it...so I'm going to stock up! [apparently this place is for all of us americans:), I'm so lucky!:].
I will have calfs of steel by the time I get back to the states.
Scratch that, I will have legs and buns of steel!
For those that I haven't explained this to, I have 4 classes to go to during the week. 2 are with Professor Brady, who has been taking us on fieldtrips [I feel like a fourth grader when I say it that way], but they're really great. The school pays for us to get into these great buildings [many of which cost £10 or more to get it (about $20)], and we walk all the way around them standing and talking about their architectural elements and then we go in them and up stairs and stand for a while and down stairs and stand and up some more to stand and then down some more..... So we walk all over in those 2 classes.
Then I have a class at the National Gallery, and I have to walk a ways to get to the underground station [to zip off to trafalgar square] and then again to walk to the gallery and then walking around in the gallery and then back to the underground to get back to school. Again, much walking.
The last class I have is Contemporary London Theatre where we see plays almost every Monday night. The group of guys that I have this class with loves to walk and wander the city [smile]...so guess what we get to do!? yeah, instead of riding the tube to get to trafalgar square [about 20 min on the tube or about 45-55 min away walking fast!], we choose to walk!
I'm not complaining, but I will be one fit girl by the time this semester is over [this is why Regents does not have a gym, because if you take the right classes you don't need to do any more working out].
There are a bunch of crazy females here that wear stilletoes all day and walk all over in them...I don't understand how they do it! [but maybe I'll learn:].
There are some really ugly fuzzy boots that are all the trend here...hopefully I'll get a picture to send sometime this semester.
Okay, I'm done with randomness for now:). If tomorow I don't feel like doing any of the research I'm suposed to be doing though....[grin] I will be back with useless information!
LOVE<><,
*maike rinaye*
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