It is so nice to be staying in the city this weekend. I honestly don't think anyone left London this weekend, and it's been fun to have everyone around. Plus, loads of people are visiting from other Central programs like Spain and Wales, so it's been like a big, happy, American reunion. PLUS, it's been gorgeous out this weekend--it's been sunny and warm enough to not wear a coat. I'm sorry for all you Iowans putting up with the snow, but I'm enjoying the sunshine.
Wednesday for work Holly and I were given a research project that we could do at Vandon. We had to find every single concert in London in a nine day period in March, and find the contact information so that Julie and Beth could talk to the venues about advertisements. It honestly didn't sound that hard, but there are seriously so many concerts in London every single day. It was really interesting, but it got a little tedious towards the end of the day. There was a lot of excitement in Vandon Wednesday, because everyone was trying to figure out spring break. A bunch of us found this really awesome cruise, but most people had to go to class so they couldn't book right away. Abby and I decided to just go for it to make sure we got it--so for spring break, I am going on a Mediterranean cruise starting in Barcelona, and going to Genoa, Civitavecchia, and Sicily in Italy, Malta, Tunisia, and back to Barcelona. Am I excited, or am I excited? I am so looking forward to sunshine and seeing so many cool places. And it worked out that there are 14 of us going--craaaaazy. It should be a very interesting trip.
Thursday we had lectures in the morning, which were a little more interesting than normal. We didn't have our religion class, so Alissa, Abby, and I decided to take advantage of the beautiful weather and ride bikes around Hyde Park. It was the best way to spend such a nice afternoon. Friday I got up and went running, and then Lindsey, Tess, Mallory, and I went to Portobello Market in Notting Hill. It's definitely my favourite market so far--it was so big and it had so many cool things. It's perfect for gift shopping, so I will definitely be going back before I go home. I also booked a trip to Paris for next weekend with a couple of girls--after booking the cruise I had told myself that that was it, no more trips. But Paris....it's the one place I really, really want to see. And after our trip got cancelled while I was in Wales, I knew I had to go at some point. So we're only going for two days, but I'm excited. I'm not getting myself get too excited though, because if my flight gets cancelled again there will be hell to pay at EasyJet. That night pretty much all but maybe 10 people from the program went out--we were that obnoxious American group that everyone loves to hate. I have to admit though, it was pretty fun, and it's good that we all like each other enough to do that.
Today, Saturday, a few girls and I decided to do our assignment in the East End--we were given a walk to do around some of the markets and streets. We started near Spitalfields Market, which was pretty cool, and ended up walking down Brick Lane and ending at the Whitechapel Bell Foundry. It was so much more colorful than Westminster, which was definitely a nice change. This is what I love about London--it seems like this grey, historical, serious city, but when you get into the neighbourhoods and outside the city centre you find all these little pockets of vibrancy and different cultures and they're all so full of life and excitement.
Today is actually the 9 year anniversary of Ben dying, which is a rough day every year. What keeps me going though is that I know Ben would want me to be living life as fully as possible, and to love everyone in my life the best that I can. I'm trying. And I know my big brother is looking out for me in some way or another.
Anyway. I'm spending my Saturday night catching up with homework and our assignment blogs, so I should probably get going on that. Lame, I know.
Byeeee xx
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