Adieu London!

If you've been doing the math along the way, I have been often posting around the midnight/1am time frame, which certainly messes with some of the writing essentials (i.e. grammar). So please excuse any spelling errors, even though I shouldn't be making any all.

Can't really believe it; today was my final full day in London. Packed things in like crazy. Headed first to a couple grocery stores for our class ethnography, where I interviewed some workers about their experiences with beer (Google: Unlocking the Beer Code for that blog), which was funny. As I was leaving the "interview," the man started making fun of my American accent, which can only mean I am cool enough to get to know, right?

We had a bunch of free time in the afternoon, so I took a quick break at this wonderful little cafe and had a handmade sandwich--it is so nice here, everything is made fresh in the morning with real ingredients, and nothing is fried or toasted or crispy, so I kind of feel like I am eating healthy (especially when I get dessert afterwards). Then I took a walk around the British Museum just for fun, which is just huge and holds a lot of random artifacts, most notably is probably the Rosetta Stone. Which got me to thinking about how many people my age don't really know what it is, and instead think of a CD-Rom program for learning languages... Many of the museum's sculptures were beautiful, especially the Greek and Egyptian ones.

After a really quick stop at the site of the August Olympic games (it looked really cool, but they don't let you very close at all. From my experience on the Tube and the normal busy here, London is going to be a crazy place in the next few months, so I'm glad I got here when I did...), we spent the evening in our professor's flat, talking about our progress with our class projects. And sweating our butts off. In coming to London, I pictured overcast skies, rainy nights and misty mornings. Not at all the case this last week...instead, highs in the 80s and bright sunshine all the time! Unfortunately, I've been trying to dress somewhat modestly in a new country, but my arms at least are pretty tan.

Then we headed back to our flat. The rest of the night has been filled with updates, packing and laundry...and hopefully soon that will include sleep. More exciting adventures tomorrow! :)

Also, I promise there will be more entertaining posts to come, but lately I have been multitasking while typing, so my humor has been compromised. Will attempt to keep things fresh and interesting, but frankly, I am exhausted and need to refresh my sarcasm-palette with at least one full (7+ hours) night of sleep. Probably won't be tonight...

Cheers!