Day 3- Tourism (10 January 2010)

So today my friend knocked on my door to wake me up so I didn't end up missing the begging of this most excellent event. We went on a bus tour of London. I took sooooo maaaaaany pictures We saw many of the exciting sights such as Buckingham Palace, St. Paul’s Cathedral, London Bridge, Tower Bridge, London Eye, Big Ben and so many more. The ended up letting us all lose in Covent Gardens, which is this huge outdoor shopping mall. I mostly hung out with Lari and an Australian girl named Adelle. I bought my adapters and my British pay as you go phone. I felt quite accomplished. We ended up eating in a McDonalds, because all the food was hellza expensive. They sold sandwiches and one of them was vegetarian and it was not too bad. We were almost late to the bus, but everything turned out just fine.

After we got back from campus I ended up going grocery shopping with Adelle, Maisie, a German guy named Andreas, and a girl from Kenya named Angela. I took the tube for the first time and it was quite exciting. My tube stop is Oakwood and I ride on the Piccadilly Tube (isn’t that a fantastic name!). When I’m coming home it’s always the Piccadilly towards Cockfosters. I bought an oyster card, which is the card you can use for all the transportation in London. You just press your card on the censor and you’re on your way. We went to this huuuuuge discount grocery store called ASDA and it’s pretty cool (which is nice since I’ll have to go weekly to buy groceries since I don’t have a cafeteria anymore). We all bought many groceries and was super excited to find out Andreas was also a vegetarian. I’m mostly going to live on cup of noodles, peanut butter nutella sandwiches, pasta, cheese, and pickles. After an hour or so of shopping we all headed back. We decided to meet up after words to hang out, but it ended up being just Andreas and me, which was just fine by me. We had a loverly evening and talked for hours about ourselves, German culture, our significant others, our countries stereotypes for each other countries, and much much more (he even taught me some German. I can count to 10 and say a few useful phrases). We are going to be very good friends =D.

~Cherrio