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 sitting on the beach on Cape Cod!
We didn’t do too many noteworthy things last week; on Wednesday, the group went to watch Shakespeare’s All’s Well That Ends Well, which was interesting to say the least. Friday we met a friend from Harvard and went to the famous Ministry of Sound nightclub. It was pretty much what I expected, all strobe lights and fog machines and really loud techno music. We left fairly early, but didn’t get back till very very late because of a series of unfortunate pubic transportation snafus including a bus that took 45 minutes to arrive and another that was stuck on a street for hours because of an accident.
Saturday, we went to Portobello Road Market (again, in my case). We bought a bunch of posters for our room and souvenirs for the roomies. I also found this record store I had been wanting to go to for a while. After that, we had a mini Harvard reunion, with Krystal’s friend Dave from Glee Club, our blockmate Julie and friend Billy, and another friend Brian from Kirkland.
Sunday, we slept in and then went out for lunch at a pub nearby. After that, we set out to find Abbey Road so we could take a replica Beatles photo. It took us forever to get there, because a bunch of lines on the Tube were closed, but we finally made it. The road is pretty busy, and we were wondering how in the world we would take the picture, since there were only four of us. We found a nice Asian couple to take it for us. The actual taking of the picture required us to run out in the street when there was a break in traffic and pose, then get honked at by cars as we ran off to the side. In the end, the picture turned out pretty well. Each of us dressed in the correct colors and everything so it would look authentic.
Anyway, I should be working on papers and whatnot, so I’m off to the library. I’m hoping to have one more day of touristing (I still need to see Big Ben, Parliament, and Buckingham Palace) and will post pictures if and when I do so.
