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Regent's Park
Bottom of the harry potter staircase in st paul's


Old pic... from Tiger Tiger. Becky and I

Climbing St. Paul's

St. Paul's


Eliza, me, Jenna and Jill on the London Eye

Hampton Court and Shakespeare's Globe

Me in front of St. Paul's last night (27 Sept) on the way home from the globe!


Today was a busy day! I went on 2 trips, to see Hampton Court with my English Country Houses and Palaces class, and to see the Merry Wives of Windsor at the Globe! Both were very impressive, but I liked the Globe best!

Hampton court was owned by Henry VIII's assitant Walsey, but then Walsey got too powerful so Henry took it over. A lot of the furniture has been removed, but many paintings and tapestries still remain!

The play was sooo good! It was really entertaining and it had live music as well! I really enjoyed it! All of the old reniaissance instruments were very impressive. Since Becky, Jill and I left straight from Hampton Court to go to the Globe, we were a little early, so we got to be some of the very FIRST people to enter the theatre!! I got to stand in the VERY FRONT CENTER of the stage!!! I got to lean on the stage! It was sooo awesome. :)



Got an e-mail from my Aunt today too, talking about Selfridge's. I'm going to have to check out that store, apparently it has some amazing shoes! Good to know, boots are very popular here, so I'll have to take a peak! I have noticed that everyone seems to be carrying the yellow bags everywhere. Guess it's time to investigate!

Later this week I am visiting the National Bank of England and going to tour Winchester Castle. Saturday I am also going on an all day trip to Bath. I'l be able to explore the Roman Baths and will have some free time to explore the town. :) Should be fun!

Hope you enjoy the pictures!

More picturesss

Jill, me and Jenna in Trafalgar Square


Jill and I in front of Buckingham Palace

In St. Paul's, at the bottom of the Harry Potter staircase

In front of a fountain in Trafalgar square, with the National Galary in the background

national galary

Rainy Day in London Town

It's a rainy Sunday in London today. I am spending the day doing homework and cleaning my room, and catching up on things like laundry and such. Here's a view from my room right now:





Last night i went to a club called Fabric with my friends. We thought it only had a £10 cover charge, but it ended up costing £18 to get in! Drinks were normal priced though. But it was so expensive! Once we were there, since it was kind of far from school, we decided to just stay. I'm glad we stayed because it was a really cool place with like fog machines and cool lights. The music stunk though, weird European techno stuff.

Here are a couple pictures from last night. Sheila let me borrow her sparkly dress, I loved it!





Tomorrow I have 2 big trips. I am going to Hampton Court with my English Country Houses and Palaces class. We have to take the tube and then a train to get there. My friend Becky is going to get a bagged lunch ready for me because I don't get out of clcass until 12:30 and we have to be there by 2, so she's going to help me out since we need to leave right away!

Then tomorrow night I am going to see the Merry Wives of Windsor at the Globe theatre! We are going to be groundlings!! I hope it doesn't rain!

All for now!

Sheila and I last night outside of the Baker Street station tube, waiting for friends to meet up with us before we left for club Fabric!

MY pictures!!! (NEW!) My laptop's fixed!

Hey Everyone,

So since my laptop is finally FIXED, I am able to upload some of the pictures that I actually took!! wahooo! Hope you like them. And this means that now instead of typing a bunch of text and adding pictures later, i should be able to add them as I tell you about my day/week. woo!


This is me in front of St. Paul's Cathedral! My History of London class visited St. Paul's last wednesday and we took a private tour through the Cathedral. It was so cool! The building is so incredibly gorgeous.


Notting Hill Travel Bookstore (from the movie!)


London Bridge!


The London Eye!


A glass bubble on the eye, about to board! They keep moving slowly, so you have to board it while it's moving!

Me and Jenna on the London eye with Parliament in the background!

Me and a Royal Guard. He was guarding the Queen's jewels inside of the tower of London.

Me at the top of St. Paul's. We had to climb over 530 steps to reach the top!

Inside of St. Paul's






Harry Potter staircase in St. Paul's. Just on the right as you walk in. The staircase was used to film part of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. This photo was taken from the bottom of the staircase, looking up.

Ceiling in St. Paul's


Me standing on the Millenium Bridge, or the bridge in Harry Potter that twists and turns and is broken by dementors at the beginning of the 7th movie.

St Paul's, Portabello Road and Chelsea Football Game Pictures

PORTABELLO ROAD IN NOTTING HILL!!!

Shopping!

Where we had dinner!


Jason and I climbing the stairs to the top of St. Paul's!

view from St. Paul's

view from St. Paul's Cathedral!

View from the top of St. Paul's!


Standing on the Harry Potter bridge!

Chelsea game!!



Me being silly last tuesday night after the sports bar.

Various Pictures from Events over the Past couple weeks!

This is the white tower inside of the tower of london. It is the oldest tower within the castle walls.


This is the traitor's gate at the Tower of London. It is connected to the Thames River and is how people such as Anne Boleyn entered the tower.

That's me.. with the long blonde hair. We are looking at the entrance to Westminster School. It is called a public school, but really it is private. Tuition is around £18,000 a year. Only super wealthy kids go, and a lot of famous people have graduated from the institution. It does give out scholarships though!

This is the memorial marking where many people within the tower of london were executed. The aristocrats were given the honor of being executed in private.. within the tower instead of outside it. So they had more privacy. Anne Boleyn was executed at this spot.


THE LONDON BRIDGE!!!!!!!!! This picture was taken standing near the tower of London.


Jill, Becky, Me and Jason at Punk Rock last Wednesday night. We went for my theatre class, and it was at the Lyric Theatre.

St. Paul's and Chelsea Football game!

Today was SO MUCH FUN! It was around 70 degrees F here and sunny! SUCH A BEAUTIFUL DAY IN LONDON TOWN :)

Today I had 2 classes then I went on a field trip to St. Paul's Cathedral! SOOO GORGEOUS! I took a few pictures, even though we weren't supposed to inside, but I can't post them yet because my laptop is STILL broken. I'm going to try to find somewhere to bring it this weekend. Maybe tomorrow because I have the day off.

A couple of my friends have uploaded pictures from today though, so here is one my roommate took:



St. Paul's is gorgeous! It is such an impressive cathedral. A cathedral was first built there in the year 630!!! That's INSANE! The building there now is either the 4th or 5th, depending on your interpreation of the first two which were just wooden shacks apparently. Then in 1666 it had to be rebuilt because of the Great Fire of London. We got to get a private tour, since we went through Regent's, so we had this fabulous tour guide who gave us all this inside information that a regular tourist probably wouldn't have been able to experience! We toured the main floor, the crypt (so weird to walk on a floor that has bodies underneath it) and then we walked up over 530+ stairs to the top dome!! There are actually TWO domes, but we went to the one on top! I took sooo many pictures! the views were really impressive. There are a couple pictures of me, with the entire city landscape in the background, on my camera. So i will definitely upload those ASAP!!!

Climbing that many scared was sort of scary as we got near the top, because it got very narrow and the stairs were made of iron and were see-through in areas. We had to squeeze through narrow archways, low ceilings, and there weren't railings in some areas too! You could tell that it was definitely built a looonggg time ago because there's no way staircases like those would pass building firecodes today!

But it was aboslutely, definitely worth it. (again, pictures to come ASAP...)

THENNN tonight I went to my first ever English football game!!! It was Chelsea vs. Newcastle. We cheered for Chelsea, as they are a london team. There colors are blue and white. I fell in love with London all over again. Honestly, I got like emotional. I love this place. I just love everything about the community feeling and the fact that the sport values technique strategy, and speed and not steroids and being a meathead... It's just better. I mean, yes, you get the few drunks in the stands... but I don't know how to explain it. The entire time I just kept imagining Colin Firth in Fever Pitch and I got so excited! I was in heaven. I bought a Chelsea scarf while I was there, had a ham and cheese sandwhich and a beer. You cant take alcohol into the stadium, so I had to drink it quickly during half time! oops!

Anyway, it was fun but chelsea lost. :( The score was 4-3, Newcastle won. I took some videos.. I'll post them soon!



Here is a picture of the stadium, I found it online... this is about from the angle where my seat was! I sat in the 27th row on the west side.. i was on the bottom level though so I had a pretty good view!!! I heard there were like 41,000 people there!

Andddd an old picture from the other weekend... Eliza, Austin, Jill and I at the Hard Rock Cafe in London right next to Hyde Park: