Snow

So things are starting to get normal. We are all starting to get into a routine, which is nice. I've gotten to the point where I have seen pretty much all the main things in London, so it isn't quite as exciting to go out and explore, but it's still fun to just walk around. Not a whole lot happened this week. On Wednesday, we had our first art class in a gallery. We went to the National Gallery and walked around it for two and a half hours listening to our instructor tell us about specific pieces of art. Art and galleries are not my thing. She had some interesting things to say, and the pieces of art were cool to look at.. for a while. After a while it gets to be a little old, but yet again, it's one of my few classes, so I think I'll be able to handle it.

This week, me and some guys planned our first trip. It was going way too smoothly.  We had our train to Liverpool booked, a night booked in Liverpool, and a train ticket to Manchester booked. We were planning on going to a Manchester United game, but we tried buying the tickets and found out you had to be a member to get tickets at this point. We ended up finding out we will have to wait a couple weeks to see if tickets will even go on sale to the public. So we have the trip booked, but the main attraction is not certain. Either way, we are still going and going to see the story of the Beatles in Liverpool.

Friday I found out my internship got cancelled. Something within the company and there was supposed to be another girl on the program working at the same spot, but now we are both out an internship. The directors had already sent out emails looking for another internship for both of us by the time they had told me. So I guess I have some more 6 day weekends. It was kind of a bummer, since I was supposed to start tomorrow and was actually going to do something, and since an internship was one of the main reasons I decided on London, but God will work it all out.

It snowed last night. You think people drive slow in the states when it snows, the entire city shuts down with a couple inches of snow. We went outside last night and ended up having a snowball fight in the middle of London at 1 in the morning. Not something that happens every day. This morning I was planning on going to church. I got up and got some breakfast and checked the travel for London website to see if anything was closed or delayed. Most of the tube lines had some sort of delay, but the ones I needed to get to church weren't delayed at all. So I waited a bit and showered and got dressed and decided I should check for delays one more time. The main line I needed had severe delays because of a lack of workers. I wish I had that excuse not to go to school if it snowed a couple inches. It's now almost 3 in the afternoon, and the snow is pretty much gone.

Street outside where we stay

Next weekend, everybody on the program is going to Stonehenge and Bath. It will be nice to get out of the center of London and see some countryside, especially since most of us haven't been outside of London in 3 weeks. We are also going to a rugby match, so that will be an interesting experience. I have watched rugby a few times on tv, but I can't even imagine watching it live.

Until next time, God bless.