Second week

The second week of being in London hasn't been overly exciting. Not a whole lot of new sights were seen, but that was going to come eventually.

I went to the Museum of London with a couple friends, Nick and Jacob, and there was a lot of information there. It went through everything from the middle ages to the Romans, and there were movies on the Great fire and the plague. It doesn't really surprise me when I look closer, that the fire and plague could kill so many people in so little time. London hasn't changed from how it used to be too much. Buildings are all really close together and there are a ton of people in a small space. So it wouldn't take much for a fire or disease to spread quickly and be deadly. I still can't imagine what it would have been like to be living through the days of the fire, where you don't know how long it's going to last or if it's going to get to where you live. I was thinking, it wouldn't be hard for a fire to break out in London today, with everything so close and with traffic so bad, if help couldn't get to the fire in a hurry, it could get out of control very fast. The traffic and small streets wouldn't help much either, by blocking they way for help to get to the fire.. interesting thoughts.

Wednesday night, everybody in the program went to Les Miserables. I had never been to a musical before, and it didn't let me down. Sure, our seats weren't the best, but man can those people sing. I was surprised by how many of the songs in the first half I had actually heard, although it did start to drag on and I feel like some of it could be cut out. The second half was full of action and was very good in my opinion. It was also interesting just sitting there and watching people. There was people dressed in jeans, then right beside them would be somebody in a complete suit. Once again, beer is a big thing. They served alcohol before it started, and you could even order a drink for intermission, where they would just have a ticket by your drink on a table during the intermission so you didn't have to wait in line and order another.

I had my first class of the semester on Wednesday, which is Art in London... for three hours. It's a good thing we're going to be going to different museums every week because I'm not like Diana and I don't think I would be able to sit through another hour of a lecture on art. Then we had our compulsory classes on Thursday, which is basically just talking about what we see and the British way of life. It could have some interesting things, where we get together and share what we have seen throughout the week and what we have done. We have the classes at the University of London, and right outside where we had our classes, there is a farmers market every Thursday, there are so many markets in London, which brings me to my next event.

Saturday I was feeling lazy, and wanted to do something. I looked outside and saw it was actually sunny in London, that's a sight. So I decided I was going to go to Camdon Market.  I ended up going by myself and exploring some of London, but it was a good experience. It was an eye opener. There were so many stores selling everything from souvenirs to tattoos and piercings. So I decided to go into some of the souvenir stores. They didn't just sell souvenirs, there was everything from key chains to coffee mugs to bongs and pipes to condoms. These are small stores, so it was definitely a shock to see all these things within ten feet of each other. Then I ended up running into other people on the program and a friend from Central that is studying in Wales, but came to London for the weekend, so that was nice.

That's all I have for now, have a great week!