The Second Week...again...for the first time...in London.

And so I've made it through another week in London. This past week has involved more food, exciting travel, and classic American tourist excursions that you all have to look forward to reading about right now. How exciting. I officially give all readers complete permission to live vicariously through me. See the world through my eyes, experience the bits and pieces that I allow you to experience, and most of all, feel homesick when I feel homesick. I'm sure that's the best part anyway. Now for London.

WEDNESDAY(of last week): Wednesdays are good days for me when it comes to school. I only have one class in the morning and then I have the rest of the day off. The only problem with this is that it seems like I'm the only person in this program that has the rest of the day off. Shopping seems like the most logical thing to do when this sort of thing happens, so go shopping was exactly what I did. Only for bread and pastrami though. Not that exciting.

THURSDAY: In terms of excitement Thursday was full of it. I got to have tea at Kensington Palace, which I must say was one of the better experiences I've had thus far, and also one of the first clearly British things I've done. We sat at a table and had tea and mini-cucumber sandwiches(which I did try, for the record), scones, and cake. We discussed the weather and in general had an awfully British time. Other exciting news was that it was the first night of my group's weekly "family" dinners. Not a bad way to kick off the weekend(emphasis on the "end" of "weekend" because that's more British).

FRIDAY: We went to Stonehenge on Friday. It was my goal to be the most touristy person in my group, and so I wore the "Stonehenge Rocks" shirt that Spenser got for me. I had saved the shirt for that day specifically so that I could have an epic reveal of my nerdy tourism for all the world to see. It was very exciting. The rocks were cool too, but looking like a tourist and being super proud of it felt much more American. We also went to the Salisbury Cathedral where I got to see the Magna Carta and felt much less cool wearing my "Stonehenge Rocks" shirt.

SATURDAY: I went shopping again, twice actually, on Saturday. Once for myself and once to help show a couple people where the store was at. It was certainly good exercise. Plus, the grocery store was having an epic half-off sail, which means as a college student I have to take advantage by buying the complete supply of canned goods and non-perishable items. I didn't actually do that though, but my friends did.

SUNDAY: I went to a more normal church on Sunday. Now to move on to the fun part. I decided to use my Sunday afternoon to take a nice 3 hour walk around the city. It was very exciting. I walked through Hyde park, which is always exciting, and I also got around to going to Portobello Road for the first of many times to come. It was certainly a great place to walk around. Then when I was walking back through Hyde park I spent some time watching British people. It was very exciting. I saw a father teaching his son how to play football(soccer) in the distance and it made me think of how cool British people were. Then I walked by and heard the father talking in a perfect American accent. I don't understand why a British person would do this.

MONDAY: School started again on Monday, and it was my bad day of school yet again. The good news is that I got to have a hamburger that night for the first time since being here. It'd been a whole two weeks since I'd had a classic hamburger, so I was quite happy with it. Though, in all honesty, I've probably gone longer than that without having a hamburger many times in the states without even thinking about it. I suppose you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone. I should get the rights to that phrase. It seems very original and clever.

TUESDAY: Tuesday my Humanities class went to The National Gallery for a museum trip. It was very interesting to stare at a few of the paintings for minutes on end. I'm so used to going to museums and just walking through quickly so that I can see everything that it is a nice change of pace to be able to have the time to just look at a couple paintings in one trip. I have the next two semesters to go to all of the museums here and see everything I want to see. Which is quite a bit, but also not very much.

WEDNESDAY: There is a communal guitar in the lounge here at the house, which I find myself playing for a couple hours each day, but not this day. I really like the guitar, but one of the strings broke and it made me sad. I could still play it, but it didn't sound the same and I really just want it to be fixed. It will happen soon enough, and when it is fixed I'll be even happier with it than I was before I'm sure. Aside from that the day was relatively boring. And it would seem that the sun has now set on this week. Here's to the future that seems like it will never come.