To be bored of London...

Don't worry, that title will continue on.  And, no, I am not bored! 
Friday we headed out to where our Central classes will be taking place; Birkbeck College, which is actually a part of University of London.  That is the third biggest school in the United Kingdom.  Mark told us about what we'll be doing for our British Experience Seminar, it shouldn't be too bad and should be fun.  We get to interview people from World War II and do other interesting things.  An STA travel guy came and talked to us about traveling.  It seems that they have some good deals, so I'm pretty excited to go traveling.  I have so many places I want to go :o)  I just don't know which ones to pick, plus I need someone to travel with first.  The places I'd like to visit are Scotland, Ireland, the netherlands, and Germany some more.  Of course, those are all the places I am connected to :)  Also, Rome to see my favorite roommate!  Plus, I really want to see Italy, Morgan or no.  I may go to paris and see Rebekka Riek as well, she was a foreign exchange student a few years ago that stayed with us.  It would be fantastic to meet up and catch up. 
After our little travel meeting and BES meeting we headed our seprerate ways for lunch until 2.  Kiley (I had been spelling her name wrong, sorry) and I headed back to VH to make some lunch.  I had another peanut butter sandwich.  I do enjoy peanut butter though, so it's fine by me!  I went up to my room after that and just messed around on the computer before I decided to have a little shut eye before my busy evening (I'm getting to it).  It wasn't until after 1:30 by the time I finally laid down.  I figured I'd sleep for about 10 minutes or so.  I ended up falling asleep, thank goodness, and woke up at 1:47.  Perfect.  I woke Kiley up and off we were for the big scavenger hunt.  Yep, we did a scavenger hung around London.  We met downstairs and got into groups.  I was in a group with Joel and Vitaliy (such a brilliant name).  Here is a list of the things we were off to scavage for:
1. Take a picture from on board a double decker bus.
2. Buy something at Hamley's Toy Shop on Regent Street.
3. Obtain a brochure from the Natural History Museum.
4. Obtain a brochure from the National Gallery.
5. Buy some fruit at Strutton Ground.
6. Get a menu or business card from a restaurant on Brick Lane.
7. Obtain a Eurostar brochure from St. Pancras Station.
8. Obtain an information Leaflet at St. Paul's Cathedral.
Bonus points:
1. Get a photo of at least one of the group with a policeman or traffic warden.  One extra point for being allowed to wear the helmet or cap.
2. Obtain a photo of the whole group in a red phone box.
3. Obtain a photo of at least one of the group on a lion in Trafalgar Square.

Now, I am just going to tell you that we had three hours to finish.  And, my group and I didn't even finish, whoops.  It was a fun experience though and I surely enjoyed it.  Hamley's is one of the biggest toy stores in the world, I'll have to go back.  Of course having to buy something was not very enjoyable, as I got a giant pencil, awesome.  Oh well, we bought pineapple at Strutton Ground and it was amazing!  Some of the best pineapple I've had.  When we got to St. Paul's Cathedral we didn't exactly know how to get in, so we went around pretty much the whole ceathedral, it's not small either.  We couldn't find a prochure either, so one of the group members took a peice of paper from behind one of the desks.  But shhhh, don't tell ;)  Also on our way to St. Paul's, since the Tube is underground there are many escalators that one has to go up.  I decided to be healthy, that was a bad idea.  I walked up a straight, very long staircase.  Very long; so long my thighs were litteraly hurting by the time I got up to the top.  I was out of breath for several minutes after too.  That taught me a lesson.  Don't go up huge staircases in tube stations.  When we were done and heading back to VH it was around rush hour here so the stations were very busy.  Once we got to the opening of Victoria Station, I was seperated from the rest of my group.  I went back to see if I could find them but I decided to head back because the place was very packed.  They got to VH shortly  after I did and we parted ways.  It was nice to meet more people in the program and talk to them for a little while.  Joel actually goes to Central and knows some of my friends and people I went to high school with.  Small connection there. 
I finally got to my room and took my shoes off when I was off to go to the grocery store.  I bought more food this time that should be good for me.  I bought two cheese pizza's (that are actually pretty good and don't take a long time to cook), I got four chicken breasts, pasta sauce, two things of cheese tortellini and a 2 litre of orange fanta (1 pound, I might add), and some cheese so I can make grilled cheese sandwiches.  After dinner I came up to my room and it was relaxing for the rest of the night.  Ah, I cannot forget, I borrowed a dvd from reception.  Little Britain, best British show ever.  If anyone reading likes a good laugh, with an accent, you need to find Little Britain somewhere and get it.  If my roommate hadn't been in the room or the walls so thin I am sure I would have laughed much louder.  Jenny and Morgan would have enjoyed that ;) 

I am getting anxious and excited to start our first classes this week.  It's been more than a month since I've gotten up and actually done stuff during the day.  Besides trips to Des Moines and around MI.  I am ready for the weather to warm up (it will be a while) so I can start getting out more and walking around this city I am calling home for the next few months.  Things are different in London and I am ready to face that head on (hopefully).  It's going to be a challenge, but that's a reason I'm here.  To learn more and to chellenge myself with new things.  I have to get out there on my own and start to learn to do things on my own.  As much as I would love to live under parents for a while, I know that won't be able to happen.  Sorry mom and dad ;)  Have a good day, evening, or night.  Until I write again.  Cheers