August 2009
9 posts
eight weeks in retrospect
So this is it. We made it through two weeks of frantic travels through foreign lands, where we made new friends, tasted new foods, tried to conquer language barriers in our most broken German/Dutch/French/Italian, learned that showers are overrated and jeans don’t need washing, discovered what a three hour hike straight up a mountain feels like, and had a generally amazing time. We made it...
DONE!
We are both essentially finished with our papers! It’s our last day in London, so I plan to go and see everything important that I missed (Big Ben, Parliament, etc). I’ll post pictures and thoughts on the trip being over (!) when I get back this afternoon.
Only a week till home!
Our time here in London is winding down. Everyone in the program is working frantically on their projects, due Wednesday and Friday. Sadly, these two “free” weeks turned out to be a lot less free and a lot less fun than I thought they’d be, taken up mostly by research in the library and worrying about papers and projects. But, on the bright side, this time next week I will be...