The 'Final' London Post

Always behind on these things.... But HERE it is... the LONGEST POST EVER!!! catching you up on the final month of my semester in London.

[Week 1: Nov 15th-21st]
Monday: Censored! I love my instructor for that class, she's so nice.

Tuesday: Hunterian Museum. Let me just say. I LOVE this museum. It's full of this anatomist from the 1800's pickled animals and findings. They even have a surgeon area where they show you surgeries, one was of a heart transplant... crazy.

Wednesday: Nothing, nothing at all. Just homework.
Thursday the 18th:- Went to the BFI imax theatre to see Legend of the Guardians. Wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. I actually really enjoyed it. Then, last minute went out with some friends to hang out near the Thames (Waterloo again) had some great conversation... then head to Th Roxy. Where I got in FOR FREE.... dope. That was a fun night.
Friday -Tried to do my paper, but was too tired from the previous night to do it. Epic Failure on my part.

Saturday: Finished my paper (pat on the back.)

Sunday: It was Sunday. I did nothing. That is all.

[Week 2]
Monday :: Wednesday was boring and filled with classes, etc...

Thursday: Thanksgiving!
I finished editing my film for class, attacked Ra-Ra (Floormates and myself) with light sabers, slept made great dinner with pie, and slept some more.

Friday: Decided to go out. Played some card games and then went to a house party in Notting Hill. An Actual HOUSE in Notting Hill. The house was out of a movie. AMAZING.

Saturday: Missed breakfast with a friend and her parents. I'm a bad, bad girl. Then headed to regent street with the roomie. Went into a crazy toy store and bought a cute orange jumper. It was fun.

[Week 3]

-GRAN CANARIA-

Myself, the roomie, and my floormate went to the Canary Islands the first weekend of December. It was THE GREATEST!
First we had to take a train to Liverpool, because that's where we were flying out of. Liverpool is okay, reminds me of Pittsburg, it's a city, but it's gotta ghost town feel to it. So we left Thursday night and stayed in the the airport... watched Love Actually and then slept on the cold floor. Then it was on the plane and off to the Islands.
We were laying on the beach while we drank cervecas and had delicious sea side food. It was amazing. I LOVE gelatto, especially Mango flavored gelatto. Well, can you REALLY go wrong with mango? Uh... NO, duh. Got some relaxation in and overall was well worth it.

[Week 4 & 5]
After this I basically lots of homework. Also caught a cold. It was inevitable, my roommate has been sick for a while, so I knew it was coming. I also went to some more films, and attended some student events at ULU... But the last week was the BEST!

Saturday: Went to the Chocolate Festival and a holiday festival in Waterloo with Ra-Ra and one of the guys from the program. After that Ra-Ra and myself went on our Brixton Extravaganza. Bought some mesh tops, chickpea roti and then went to the Hootananny to check it out. Nice place, pretty cool.

Monday: Went to see a film called The Tourist for Film workshop, that was okay. Could of been better. Then relaxed for a spell and went to The Roxy, as usual.

Tuesday: Finals and hanging out with the boys

Wednesday: Film presentation and then Walkabout. Walkabout, which was a lot more fun than I thought it would be.

Thursday: Finals. Then went to a pub to celebrate us all being done with school. Went back to the res hall, took a nap. Woke up. Ate. Talked to Ra-Ra for WAY TOO LONG. The we finally got ready and went to THE ROXY (of course). Now this was the FUNNIEST, MOST RIDICULOUS EPiCLY AWESOME night EVER!!! It was Epic. Love it.

Friday: I wake up later than I was suppose to and had to run to the tube. There was a presentation of the theatre kids' play. It was really well written. Then it was off to our final lunch together and then off to packing.

It's Been Real London. Until next time.... Keep It Real.

I could be writing a paper, but I'm posting a blog instead.

So I have lots of things to do before I leave, mostly homework, sadly.

3 papers for the following:

• Censored! What Britain Couldn't See [and a presentation]
  
• Media & Politics
• Living and Dying in the 17th and 18th centuries

Then 2 Final Exams:

• Media & Politics
• British Youth Culture

And I have 2 films

• Film edit due Thursday
  
• Plan, Shoot, and edit final film

Is all of this possible in the next month, well sure it is, but do I wanna do all of it? Of course not. But I will.

and let me just say that Instructors need to spread out work a little better. Because seriously things are piling up if you couldn't tell. But yea. Basically wrote this to distract me.
And BOOM GOES THE DYNAMITE!!!

Wow this Kitchen is Clean!

This week was like any other week, except it was Mid Term Break. Yus. The time where people can go on trips and such...unless of course you're broke and feel no need to visit any other place be cause you're in the best place you could possibly be..(yeah, I'm broke!).

Break down of my week

Monday
[Went to see Man with a movie camera at the BFI Southbank.]
Tuesday
[Midterm exams, bit of shopping at ASDA aka Walmart. ]
Wednesday
[I don't entirely remember what I did... I'll re-write it when I remember... Oh YEA, I went to Proud Camden and seen some hip-rock band, it was okay (pretty lame, explains why I didn't wanna remember it.)]
Thursday
[Everyone went to Scotland, well almost everyone. Myself, Taylor, and Jennifer went to the cinema. Me & Jennifer seen Paranormal Activity 2. I was satisfied and it explained the first one.]
Friday
[myself and Taylor went to a meatloaf themed fancy dress party in Kings Cross]
Saturday
[Went to Greenwich Market, which was a bust because the ride there sucked. Had some Chinese food, super good and cheap! Then Later that night after much discussion went to Silver Bullet for a Voodoo Haiti Relief party, kinda weird, but fun. Ride back was not so much fun. Took 2 hours to get home on the night bus because the N19 was not running properly and I bought McD's again:( Need to get it together, where's a Falafal wrap when you need it.]
Sunday
[Went to the Diwali festival in Trafalgar Square with Jessie and met some of his friends from NYU, ate at a the Four Seasons in China town, and had some down time before everyone came back from Scotland]

Had a pretty good week and an even better weekend, until next post...




Wooly Booly - The Chipmunks... don't know why but yea... here it is.

Adventure Break - Google

So I really wanna work for google, I hope that one day I can, just for a while.

I don't have many pictures because I'm actually having fun where I am.

Well pretty busy week. Classes as usual. I had a good Wednesday night. Went out on a date with a guy from Germany on brick lane. Went to Prim Bahti Curry House. It was nice, enjoyed myself. Said goodbye and went with the roomie(Taylor!) to Queen Mary's student Union. Was introduced to snakebite [Cider, Beer, and Blackcurrent Juice]. Love it. Hung out with some cool Queen Mary kids and didn't make it home and wore the same outfit 2 days in a row.

[That will not happen again, I told myself, but in London who knows]

On Thursday went to the O2 in Brixton (favorite place in London) to see MF Doom with Matt. Got there around 10pm, bought a beer before we went in for a pound, love it! Then went in watched the show. Went to KFC and got a snack box. Haven't been to KFC in like 2 years, that was weird. Hung out and ate food near the tube entrance. Some drunk guy came up to us and called Matt, Justin Timberlake, classic.

On Friday, instead of doing my homework, myself, Matt, Taylor, Garrett, and Dan too a wonderful trip to Greenwich. It was quite fun full of walking and site seeing. I'm glad I missed doing homework to go outside.

Saturday Garret, Dan, and I went to Matt's Lacrosse game. Went to a nice pub after the game, met some of the Lax boys. Then headed back to relax for a bit. Headed back out to meet Matt and the Lax boys at UCLU to the Pleasure Lounge (bahahaha). Then went to a flat party. My night ended with eating a snack box from KFC again (need to stop drunk eating with Matt).

[Good Weekend, hopefully I have an even better one.]

My Girl Likes to Party All the Time & THEN SOME.

So I decided to dedicate this last week to going out. It's gonna be a boggled down week full of homework and being on task and such, so I thought I'd get all that fun out of the way now.

Monday: The Roxy in Oxford Circus
[I love the Roxy and the Roxy loves me. Great music, great people, and the bouncers are my bff's.

Tuesday: 1001 Club on Brick Lane
[Heard some bad punk bands, but it was entertaining.]

Wednesday: Moonlight in Leicester Square
[More drinks, More fun!]

Thursday: Camden: all over
[Original plan: me and the boys go to The Flower Pot for a show, but the bouncer sent one of the boys off... so we bought some beers and walked around, found a few places, ended up at The Jazz Cafe and took a long bus ride home]

Friday: The Peacock in Wandsworth & The Roxy
[Not the best night. Went to the peacock in which the music was constantly interrupted by an older guy singing and talking, had to chirp out. Then to the Roxy, kinda packed, but great music. Then some creeper would not leave us alone, had to yell at him. Then on the walk home was attacked by some drunk guy trying to slap my butt. That mixed with people complaining about the bus stop, food, and their boyfriend, I was done for the night. It had won.]

Saturday: Ministry of Sound in Newington
[Made lots of friends in the Line. Guy from Germany, Guy from Russia, A guy from France and his British Girl, and a guy named SAM!! It was a great night.]


Sunday: Residence Hall
Had to catch up on homework and sleep.

Overall: GREAT WEEKEND!!!!!

Why are we in London and WHERE IS SAM?

So yesterday night (Tuesday) we decided to head(my roommate, four other girls and myself) to brick lane for a free show. Well we arrived and there was no free show. But the club was pretty cool and we were on brick lane so we grabbed some grub, a drink and vibed to some music and had a good chat.

After our lovely time there we headed back to the dorms on the tube. One of the girls decides to do a flip over one of the poles and a guy starts yelling "Oh my God, it's Spiderman!!!" "Don't Move, I'm gonna take a picture"... So the two, a boy and a girl, come over and they're trashed. But they were exteremely enjoyable. We were talking about Uni(university), and where we went to school and all that good stuff. Then in the middle of the converastion the boy says "Where's Sam?" Apparently they had a friend named Sam whom they forgot about. So for throughout the rest of the conversation we hear. "Why are we in London and Where is Sam?" So finally our stop comes up and we head off, not before we have 2 intense group hugs.

It was hilarious and I'm glad a was present for that adventure. Until next time Tube...

Ringo Starr is too COOL for The Beatles

Hello cyber space, Long time no see, how have you been???

So here's my quick snip update from last week. (20/9/10)

Monday: Classes, homework, and MEXICAN MONDAY!!! gotta love taco night.

Tuesday: Classes and Trafalgar

Wednesday Night: Homework day and venturing around for a job, and Harry's.

Thursday Night: Went out to O'neals in Leicester Square and then Camden where I got super sick off of cran-vodka and showed everyone what I drank that night.

Friday: Easy day, Grocery Shopping, homework, and sleep.

Saturday: Boat races, thrift shopping, and Punk music show in Camden.

Sunday: Fashion Week(lots of "free" stuff) and homework.

p.s. The picture is of the 'band' I'm in Snight-Seeing.

Rise of the Night Terrors

So this weekend was pretty uneventful.
I went out to the Sports Cafe in Leicester Square on Friday. Wasn't really pop, so we tried to go to O'Neils but there was an £8 cover, ended up at McDonald's got a £2 meal, DOPE! Then headed back to the sports cafe. Paparazi was killin' me though, every 5 seconds new picture. But it was fun the second time around.
Saturday I didn't do ANYTHING. Stayed in, did some homework, tried doing some homework, watched tons of online television. Then finally went outside for a half an hour for a girl's B-day party.

Sunday was more productive. Went on a market tour at the east end, hit up this Eid celebration in Trafalgar Square, went to the National Portrait Gallery for homework. Then came back to school and did some more reading for 2 hours. Chilled, had some cake for a girl on my floor's b-day, talked to Nitra on Skype (highlight!) and then talked in the kitchen for a while and went to sleep.

But this is not the reason for this post. Before I went to sleep I was listening to Stay Too Long by Plan B " 'cause I always stay too long, long enough for something to go wrong." So I went to sleep and had like the craziest everything that could go wrong did go wrong. I went back to MN after my semester was up, except I was suppose to go to NY and my family there was upset at me. Then my stepfather started yelling at me in front of my company. I was trying to calm everything down, but that didn't work. So I yelled back and he left. I was with some guy, I do not like...last resort kinda stuff. Then I went out to the club, wouldn't let me in because I had an ID that said under 21. And I told them I just got back into the country. They bouncer was gonna let me in but I started trippin' out. Yelling about how it was wack I couldn't get in and who cares if I didn't get a new ID, this one's till valid. It was wild. I was going bananers. They were about to take me to the police station but then my roommate's phone woke me up. I awoke with a straining pain in my chest. Now writing it out, doesn't seem so bad, but for the most part it freaked me out.

I apparently have many things on the brain.
But the sun is shining, and I'm gonna prep for class in the afternoon, HOLLA!

No more partying before 10am class

Hello all.
How has everyone been since the last time we've talked? Well I've been just dandy. Classes started on Monday. So far so good in that department, except today was a struggle to stay awake. We all went out to Pyke pub and then Tiger Tiger club near Leicester Square. It was mad crazy, I even got to practice my British accent and someone practiced their deep south accent with me. We were both pretty terrible, but I think mine was less terrible. We sat at the pub for a bit, had a cider and some pimms and then it was finally off to Tiger Tiger. Our student assistant got us in VIP, so cold! One thing that really made my night was getting free drinks (on accident). I was getting drinks for me & the girls. I gave the bartender my card and the girls took their drinks and I started on mine while I waited for him to get back. He comes back and says the card isn't working. So I gave him my half drank drink and headed to the atm. Money was not coming out and I couldn't find the bartender or the girls, so I just went on the rest of the night. No troubles, well I hope not. Fingers Crossed. Next time we go I will be sure to have money ready. But after that more dancing, photo op and then it was off to find the night bus home, which took a half an hour I might add and it was only 5 minutes away. But we finally arrived at 2:30 in the morning. Which sucked because I had 10am class and I commute, but totally worth it. I would not do it again though.


SN: I seen someone with a red beret on today. (for Kevin)

Being Orientated

So everyone in my program arrived yesterday (wednesday). We had a small group/floor meeting. Got my oyster card, just like a go-to card. I met my roommate. She's nice so far. Enjoying her company. Also met my kitchen mates, they're all boys (oh snaps!)..lol. But they're mad cool. They bought beer (under 21..oh to be young again). It was in shrink wrap.... weird, but it was cheap so I couldn't say much. Then my roommate and myself prepared for the long napping time when this Brit lady was screaming outside of her window. Reminded me of home, belligerent drunken underclassmen yelling, the best. Then went to sleep early yesterday at like 10pm. Woke up at 3 in the AM. Super wack. Took for ever to go back to sleep.

Then had to wake up at 8:20am. It was a rough morning, but I made it through all of the being talked at. Then it was lunch. Went to an Indian restaurant, was cool except I had to ask for the bill. CAN YOU CHECK ON US PLEASE??? We also bought cheap stuff, so they were probably like, "typical bloody Americans and their depleting financial system." Some bull like that. But yea, it was delicious so I can't complain too much. Then it was back to orientation. We walked around. Went to this place called the student Union, it's a union place for all London students, super dope. Gonna join, meet some Brits (some colored folk hopefully, lots of rich white kids in my group... lots of rich kids in general). Then we did some last minute stuff for class and met the faculty. My prof for History and Media & Politics is the dopest.

SN: Get a history prof born in the 60's, chances are they will be the best thing that ever happened to your educational experience.

Finally headed back to the res hall with one of the chicks from my class. Why on our way back from the tube stop in South Kensington did we get lost. Not taking directions from her again, but that's what I get for listening to others instead of my own thoughts. We got back though, had to ask 3 people for directions. The first was an American, the second was a Spaniard, and finally we found a Brit.

SN: Chelsea, the Manhattan of London. (Nobody from NYC actually lives in Manhattan)

We finally got back, about 10 mins after we should have. Gonna hit some pubs tonight if all goes right.

But until my return, keep fist pumpin'. xoxo.


Funny Things that made me laugh so far:
-British woman yelling
-My Academic Advisor Tripping (she didn't fall so I can laugh)
-My shower water smells like peanut butter
-My profs baby cried continuously at me today. I think she hates black people...lol. (she's mixed)
-My roommate smells like salami after she drinks
-The Mr. Whippy ice cream van (not as good as Mr. frosty)
-Asking for directions and 2 of the 3 people were not from London

London - Day 2

So I'm in London officially.
Today was a beautiful London day, filled with above average temperatures and sunshine. Apparently these people don't see the sun often. So I woke up at 6am. Then finally got back to sleep and a few hours later the cleaning lady came in and then the RA came in. It was funny. Finally woke up at 1pm. Ah to sleep in again. Not for long everyone moves in tomorrow and Orientation is the following day. Did some more adventuring. Went to McDonald's, lied to a man about my age so he wouldn't stop me about some saving the world venture and now I'm in Starbucks with my yogurt and tall chai tea. Man o' man I always have to go to Starbucks to get on the internet that or stand by the window (ghetto). A tad annoying, but worth it. And soon I'll be getting free chai if I keep using my Starbucks card. Overall I'm enjoying myself. I'll have more next week I'm sure other than sleeping and Starbucks.

Until Next time,
Stay Black, because I can't find many black people...lol.

Airports and sorts

So I'm not in London quite yet, but I'm currently having a layover in Philly. 5hours and my uncle decided to go to Florida so nobody to visit. but its cool. I'll take a nap or something.

Today has sure been an adventure. I woke up and cried with my mom, played rockband with my lil brother and talked shop with the younger sister. Then took the taxi to MSP. I was unconscious through the entire ride, turned on some drizzy and was gone. Once to PHL I walked a bit trying to find my gate. finally a lady on an eletric car gave me a ride to gate a. Mad nice of her. Now I'm near my gate staring out the window. figuring out my next move. Well loves see you in London.

P.S.
why are the only black people I'm seeing here workers for the airport....just saying.

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