Sunday we went took a tour to visit Stonehenge and the Roman baths. For as cool as rock formations can get Stonehenge was the tits. It was a beautiful sunday morning in Salisbury and it was entirely farmland. Cows, sheeps, pigs....Farmville heaven. Stonehenge was incredible. You really can't believe that the rocks are still intact after all those years and of course i acted like a complete American tourist taking crazy pics by it.






With then proceeding to Bath, England. That baths we saw there were beautiful and we found they were once all used for public bathing even though they looked like lavish hotel pools. A hot spring ran into the biggest pool and the water really felt like bath water. We also drank a cup of the spring water because supposedly it has natural healing powers. It tasted terrible though!


Also in Bath was saw crazy street performers such as magicians, musicians, and a crazy tightrope walking balancing volinist. We also saw part of a France vs. Bath rugby game! Of course Zee French had fabulous pink uniforms.






We ended our day in Bath at these awesome gardens. Very pretty flowers and wicked cool topiaries.





On Wednesday we had a tour of Shakespeare's Globe Theater. We got to stand where the gremlings stood...very cool. We also saw the play Cymbaline that night. It was totally a jerry springer of shakespeares time.




Now time for my 4 day weekend :)

Cheers!

salmon and tobacco

Last week was fantasic!! we went to Platform 9 3/4 (big fun) Also, we visited Abbey Road!!! It was wonderful. we all dressed up and took about 100 shots till it was perfect.



We also stopped by the American sports bar to catch the sad Bosox game.

This week we saw two plays; An Inspector Calls and Miss Julie. Strangely both plays are about suicide....oh the depressing brits. However the plays were really different than US plays so it was interesting.

Along with my dislike for how unorganized the UK is....the tube caught on fire Thursday in the most popular platform, King's Cross. Well of course this meant that the world was over and the platform was pure chaos so I opted to just take the bus...

Also Thursday and Friday our school went on strike! yay unions! well, we were told there was going to be crazy picketing and to not show up to school because if we did we would get stuff thrown at us (classy)....clearly i was gonna head to school to get in on the action. well when i got to school...no riots, no pickets, no fun......the brits can't even do a strike right!!!! Well anyways I went to class but my teacher didn't show up woohoo!

This weekend we discovered the most amazing store called Primark. Forever 21 on crack. It was the most amazing this ever. Discounts, cute clothes, sequins!! Lisa and i seriously spent 3+ hours in there.

Oh yea also this weekend we were a little 'too" loud and there were many noise complaints about our room. So as a punishment administration locked up our windows. Even better, my room smells like tobacco and salmon. Now I'm trapt in a salmony tabacco filled sweatshop staring out of a window that once was opened and once allowed a nice soft breeze that came off of the Dirrrrrrrrty Thames river. I swear i'll never be loud again, pause not.

Cheers!

back to schoooool

I can't believe that my summer has lasted this long! Tuesday was my first class called Art in London. It's going to be really cool as the teacher takes us to all the art galleries around London.

Today I had Art, Design and Media in Context which I thought was looking at artwork and commercials and analyzing how its portrayed to the media. WELL it turned out to be a 45 min discussion on Burberry and the rest of the time comparing jewelry. My entire class is fashion/textile/jewelry maker majors. ah

After that I had theater in London which is also going to be awesome since our teacher will take us to all the great London plays including Shakespeare Globe theater.

The wonderful, weird and wacky:
1. I got 12 kiwis for 1 pound!
2. Couples in London look alike
3. People walk up the left side of the stairs and down the right side.
4. My school gives away shots and pitchers of beer as prizes for BINGO
4. There are no trash cans because the Irish used to put bombs in them so London decided to just screw it and take the cans away.
5. I swear the Gieco caveman is in my jewelry/design class

Cheers!

Brussels and Amsterdam

Well these past few days have been a blur....starting with Wednesdays night at 8:00pm we decide to walk to the train station just for fun. Once at the station, we were offered an incredible deal to go to Amsterdam; however, we'd have to be back at the station at 4:45 am. Obviously we all booked it!! And at 4:45am we were back at the train station all packed in one backpack....how rugged

In order to catch the train to Amsterdam we had to take a train to Brussels; Belgium. It was fantastic. We spent the entire day walking around Brussels which included eating actual Belgium waffles and chocolate for breakfast and seeing the Manneken-Pis statue which is known as the "Pissing Boy" because he actually pees water. There was also lots of great grafitti in Brussels.

Best of all....I found my beloved Paprika Pringles which isn't sold in America or the UK so I was veryyyy excited.

After a long day in Brussels we head to Amsterdam. The train ride was everything I dreamed of....windmills and cows, windmills and more cows. (But oh how beautiful those windmills and cows make Holland!)

Once we arrived in Amsterdam we walked around looking for a decent hostel to sleep in. All the cool ones were book so we were feeling discouraged until we wlaked into "Bob's Hostel" (sound sketchy?????) Well it was!!!! creepy, smelly men were just sitting at tables staring at us as we walked thru soo we ran away and stayed the night in a hotel!

Friday and Saturday we did alot of sigthseeing and shopping. Of course wooden shoes/ clogs were in all the gifts shops. We also went to the Sex museum, Van Gogh museum, Anne Frank's House, and some coffeshops. We also found a wonderful hostel that fit all 9 of us in one room. Leopard sheets and all!!!

OH and of course the RED LIGHT DISTRICT!! Possible one of the most entertaining nights. We just camped out and watched as prostitutes tried to coerce men into their cubby. Quite gross and quite sad, although very entertaining. One girl tried to call us in after all the men left and she had no business, that's when we decided to probably head back home. The streets actually glow red from the lights and the alleys were lined with prostitutes. It was crazy.

Saturday night we went back to Brussels and spent the night in the train station. I've never been so cold in my life but how awesome is it that i can wake up in a train station in Brussels!! woo

Now i'm in my bed...all clean...and finally warm...time for a fat nap :-)

Cheers