Day 26/27: Dress Up and Museums, HOLLA!

Well I turned in my first paper of the trip so far during my Theatre in London class…Basically, the paper was a joke seeing as though it was only about our thoughts on each play we’ve seen…So NBD. Real easy. Our class was only an hour long (very nice!) so we had the rest of the day off. Rachel and I headed off to get Kebabs down the street again. They are soo good! Very cheap, very filling, great kids that work there! Every time we go down that way we see this grocery store that looke HELLA cheap, so we decided to go in and check it out. It was like an Aldi’s…But a little better. So Rache and I bought food there and I got TONS of stuff for only 15 pounds…It was great! :) When we came back we just kinda hung out around the flat, did some homework…Aka our first, non-graded, International Management presentation with Bob…Yeah, we didn’t know what we were doing, but its fine! Bond, Chris Bond (our tutor) thought we did fine. After awhile, Sam and Krista came home! And there our hella fun night begins!!! Apparently they went to Camden Market and decided to stop into this dress shop. Sam, oh Sam, she is probably one of the nicest people in the world, and has troubles telling people no…And Im pretty sure the shop owner could tell this because he was this foreign, very gay man who basically pressured her into buying these 2 interesting dresses because they looked, “just fabulous” on her…Oh poor girl! I mean they were really nice dresses, however the grand total came out to be over 100 pounds…Which is A LOT. So she is going to try and return them today…But the guy cut off all the tags…and never handed her a receipt…So pretty sure she got taken advantage of…:( Poor Sam. At least they DO look good on her! Anyway, after that story, and a fashion show, which was really pretty funny, everyone started a dress up event haha…Rachel and I decided to make outfits out of our scarves…Very cute and Krista put on her Tree Trunk sweater…Its just a sweater with a large cowl neck…and she joked that it was from when she was really fat and her neck was as large as a tree trunk…oh man minkz! Ya had to be there, but it was funny! So after while of different outfits, we decided to dress Rachel up kinda slutty (because she is the OPPOSITE of slutty, hence it being funny) and dared her to go over to the boys flat and ask to see Ben (they have a running gag because he always comes into the flat when she is only in her towel, and she walks into their flat when HE is in HIS towel) because of the irony between fawkwardness…Anyway, most of you probably arent understanding why this is funny…but it is. Let me assure you. The tale is more for me to have as a memory, not for you all to read. Anyway! Steve came to the door…and well…Steve and Rachel have been flirty, so it was just hilarious and really fawk! We have it in pictures, no worries! So that was that night…Very funny and a really good time. Flat mate bonding times! Gotta love em’!!!
Day 27:
So for Global Issues we met Steve (our tutor) at Waterloo Station for class. The girls arrived early, so we got bagels and read the news. Once everyone arrived we started the walk to the Imperial War Museum. Steve walked us around everywhere and we got to see some interesting things, and heard some more about London. He also showed us where London was bombed during the Blitz in WW2. Very interesting. The war museum was FAMAZING. Sooo interesting. I loved it! We went to one of the exhibits which was entitled, “Crimes Against Humanity” and it was just a film of crimes against humanity…aka just random people getting killed all over the globe…it was certainly eye opening, but good to see in the fact that it makes people aware of the current situations around the world. We also went to the Holocaust exhibit, which was OUTSTANDING. They had so many facts, videos (of various interviews from holocaust survirors), photos, real stories, artifacts, etc…They had a huge model of Auschwitz and different uniforms, shoes, etc…it was all so horrible, but so intresting. Defintely very cool, especially since it was free. They also had an exhibit called the Trench experience and one that was called the Blitz Experience…Those were amazing as well! So cool to actually see what it was like. LOVED the whole experience. After we were done at the museum, we found our way back to our flat and got ready for international management. Overall, a very good class, good presentation, etc. He informed us that we are going to be going to his university and meeting his students and hanging out there sometimes, so that should be cool. Also, when he gets back from business trip he is taking us to China Town and we are going to have a meal and hang out with some kids down there. It should be hella interesting!!! After class I planned for our life and figured out what we MIGHT be doing for travel throughout our time here. Good work for me! Holla! It was a great night, filled with fun and frivolity. We hung out with the guys for awhile and then when the girls came home, hung out with them. I went to bed around 10, so that was fun! Love sleeping! :) Day off tomorrow so who knows what will happen! Cheerio!