Monday: woke up early, had music class, passed on the gym and took a nap instead, went to other class, studied and did situps, had midterm, went to My Old Dutch for dinner, relaxing evening of hanging and writing
Tuesday: Woke up early to go to the gym (go me!), this was followed by a little relaxing and then situps, then class, then taco night (woohoo! So delicious. Mexican food is just amazing…), then some hanging out and writing (typical evening, but a good one)
Wednesday: Woke up early again for the gym, stayed for almost 2 hours, then came back and did my situps, was social in the kitchen for a bit, and caught up on Glee, then did a museum visit to the Victoria and Albert before hitting up Byrons for group dinner. This was followed by the planning of trips with Diana, some writing, and further hanging out.
Thursday: woke up early again to go to the gym, followed by 1000 situps, then went to my museum visit, followed by going to a church to do a little community service, then some shopping for green tights for our Robin Hood day tomorrow (also found some lovely boots… oops), then dinner at the house and a relaxing evening in preparation for the early morning. All in all- a great day. And we got some lovely London rain!
Friday: Woke up early (no sleeping in this week so far… ugh. Craziness!), did a lot of running to catch trains with people, made it to Nottingham, then more trains and buses to Sherwood Forest (Robin Hood, what up?). All of this was done wearing green tights, by the way. Walked around, saw the Royal Oak, climbed a tree, had an altogether good day and finished it with some fish and chips and cider at a pub before retiring for the evening.
Saturday: super relaxing day- actually got to sleep in, got in my situps and gym, wrote a bit and watched a movie, hung out with people in the house- it was super quiet since almost everyone was gone this weekend, discovered a new Starbucks mango-passion drink, went pubbing with Jessica and Andrew and met their Swiss friend
Sunday: got up early (eww), finally went to St. Michael’s church and enjoyed a lovely service, met some new people, found a later service with a younger crowd to check out, got all my exercise in, took a nap, hung out downstairs with some people, had a delicious dinner made for me, finished up the night with some more writing
Okay, so now an extension of the more entertaining aspects of this week. Actually, it was a pretty low-key week. I stayed up with all my exercising, tried to eat healthy (so hard here in London-town sometimes), got in some exploring time, England travel-time, and some desperately needed alone-time on the weekend. I only slept in one day this week (craziness, I know), so I’m kind of proud about that.
The most fun was probably my Friday-Saturday bit. Jessica and I went out shopping and I found some lovely boots in a color I do not yet have boots in, so, naturally, I had to purchase them since they were the last pair and fit. Oh well, I’ve already worn them so they were a good purchase. This outing was actually meant for green tights searching, so after going into about five different stores, we finally found and American Apparel, found opaque hunter green tights that were way overpriced, but absolutely perfect. So, after rationalizing the fact that we could wear them again for St. Patrick’s Day in Ireland and some sort of Pepperdine Frat party in the upcoming year, we bought them. We got back to the house, found absolutely awesome outfits to pair with the tights, and then were ready for our Saturday trip to Nottingham.
Perhaps this needs a bit more explanation. Nottingham was our first destination, and then another train and bus after that got us to Sherwood Forest, or, Robin Hood’s forest! Hence the green tights. And the strategically planned outfits. We figured we might as well go all out when doing the whole Robin Hood trip, and it was so worth it. So, once we got there, it was a beautiful day, we took tons of pictures, walked through the woods, saw the Royal Oak (as mentioned), climbed a tree (why not?), and finally finished up the day with our train ride home and some fish and chips in a pub. It was a rather exciting day trip. I love the fact that we’re getting some many more of those in this semester! I still have two more planned out, and hopefully Oxford and Cambridge during the rowing competition in March, and Oxford next weekend when my mom and sister come and visit me in London! So exciting! Oh, also, finally got my long weekend trip planned, and I am officially going to Budapest, or the “city of baths” with my friend Diana. I’m so excited. It’s going to be a great trip with so much to see, and I’m going with someone just as crazy as me. So it’ll be a good time. Anyhow, that’s it for now, except for my updated travel list which will be posted below this, just so you all can see what shenanigans I’m getting into this semester. And I still have Holland and Italy and Prague so visit during the summer! Ah, so much to do!
Places visiting/visited this semester: Switzerland, Dover, Nottingham, Oxford, Budapest, Germany, Ireland, Cambridge/Oxford, Bath, Istanbul, Ephesus
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