I've always thought that nowhere in the world could hold my attention quite like Australia and New Zealand did. False. London gives me goosebumps- the kind you get during your first middle school slow dance and you experience the rush of hormones for the first time. Except here, it's a much more trendy hormonal rush.
I want to drink wine and smoke cigarettes and go to live poetry readings (which I'm doing this coming Monday night, except NOT smoking cigarettes). Getting up and drinking fresh coffee from the Troubadour right down the road. Do you know how many famous people first played at this cafe'? Yes- it's 3 blocks from my apartment. This was my pick-me-up after the news about Jazz.
Internship
..is going very well. I've really gotten to know some of my co-workers a lot better, as well as the other interns. Everybody is undeniably awesome and posh and full of British pride and manners, but they all clearly know how to have a good time as well. As far as the kids go- I've already learned so. much. Remember, these kids have anything from severe anxiety to psychotic disorders (one patient even hears voices on a nightly basis). Pretty intense. The whole experience, if anything, will be completely humbling. To realize that my life is so incredible that I sometimes feel guilty.
Class
...sucks.
British politics are worse than American politics believe it or not, and the Westminster model is slowly failing the United Kingdom. But (and this line is for my mother), I *am* in fact, learning from the class, and I'll be sure to pay attention and do what I'm supposed to do, anyway.
But, our professor is so cool. He's Canadian, and he just really doesn't have any rules, other than don't be an arrogant American asshole. Apart from that, we really have free range. The class meets once a week on Tuesday nights for a couple hours. I suppose it could be much worse.
We've been keeping pretty busy trying to do whatever we can to actually gain some bearings here. I swear the city gets bigger every time I go out. Thursday night we went to a club called "VERVE". It was meh. Not too much to say about this- except we somehow always manage to find the late bus and get home, to the other side of London (the Tube shuts down at 12:30am).
Friday we were super tourists and headed to see more of the city. We headed to ABBEY ROAD- and ended up doing the famous cross walk. We also made a stop at Westminster Abbey- Where the royal wedding took place just weeks ago.
Friday night consisted of a visit to a club of all clubs: TigerTiger. So much fun. We danced all night, and they had DJs on nearly every corner of the club. It was 4 stories, and each floor had somewhat of a different theme.
In fact, to make sure our time at TigerTiger was satisfactory, I received an e-mail from the club the following morning. I took a screen shot to remember it forever.
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Saturday. How do I even begin to explain Saturday? Well, it was the Naked Bike Ride of 2011 through Hyde Park in central London. See below.
Excellent.
We proceeded to continue the festivities in the park for the remainder of the afternoon, which was 65 and sunny. Absolutely perfect. We actually took a moment of silence to completely take in how fabulous life really is.
Tomorrow we're headed to Stonehenge and Bathe for a tour/site seeing. But, I should mention that I'm still keeping it real over here ....
..and temporarily borrowing things and finding new locations for them.
And even being so far away, Skype and e-mail and Facebook and Twitter and every other virtual connection you can imagine has been keeping me up-to-date with life back home. In fact, my lovely sister sent me the following photo and video combo, to make an almost perfect weekend that much better.
Love my buddy.
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