Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Londres, Mercredi 17 Novembre






Wed. 17/11.

Train here:
STAMP! Falling asleep. Tried to plan. Old English lady who only said "merci."
Other News:
Applied for CLS. Gov't pays for me to go to an intensive language insitute. Completely pays. Persian.
Zucchini?
Yum.
SUPER EXCITED FOR HARRY POTTER.

Arrival
-pounds/pence?!
metro (tube) Kensington
-sooo expensive (painfully so)
Natural History Museum
-Dinosaurs, beautiful
Past M. of Science, Prince Al. Hall, Gardens (too dark
ATMs broken: 3
-Exchange in store with Indian who never sput down his phone
Walk, walk, walk, walk...
6:40 - Gourmet Burger Kitchen
-"Avocado Bacon"
-Really good, way too much food, I like avocadoes
-Not a huge fan of eating alone...
--isolating, not much to focus on, staring around. Trying to stay calm by taking down notes for the update. Milan sent me the video about being lonely, trying to do it. Living vicariously through the girls at the next table over. What do people think? Do they notice, consider me like I do them? Why am I even wondering?
Museums close around 5...Trying to make the most of the time here. Home. Internet. £1. Plan tomorrow more concretely. Sleep early. So exhausted.
Late packing, didn't bring Persian stuff to study...
Love my new purse, but nowhere to store my umbrella.
Ate too much, starting to feel it. Can I pull out another half hour before I go home?
Despite loneliness, I still really want to be on my own and to have a job, apartment, and cat. Maybe in London. Accents kill me (in a good way.)
NEED to find flags as souvenirs, postcards, TEAPOT.
Take a notecard to a restaurant tomoorrow?
Eat and run to see as much as possible.
8:50 - ROLLIN' OUT and hoping I can navigate the metro.
Breakfast: free! Tower of London, Tower Bridge, Parliament, Big Ben, Buckingham Palace, Park?! British Museum @ night, London Eye @ night!
Oxford Fri. Night, Sat., Sat. Night.
LONDON Sun. morning.


Museum of Natural History:

Thursday, November 11, 2010

Several things goin' awnnnn.

I couldn't make myself go to my course on Tuesday morning, had a rather pleasant French->English translation class and a particularly boring English->French translation class, took care of Simon, who was fairly wellbehaved, came home, did some homework and agonized about my application for CLS.

Had an interesting class full of translating the Anglo-Saxon chronicle from Old English to Present Day English. Studied a lot of Farsi and Arabic.

Today, I had a lovely, lovely day spent with Georgie walking around the shops in Lille and going shopping. :) Bought some clooooothes, had a nice lunch, and chatted the whole time. I did laundry, wrote some essays for the CLS program and am so exhausted I think I'll try and read some before I fall asleep.

Monday, November 8, 2010

Photos de Bruxelles et de Tournai.


(Happy to be on our way!)(QUEL ENTHOUSIASME.)

(Maria made us.. Ahaha)






(hello!)
















(Bananas and chocolate sauce on a waffle? Mmmmmmmm..)
(Happy to be together in Brussels. )
(REALLY happy.)
Tournai.







(WHAT, BONNIE?)
(Belgian flag. New goal to get a flag from every country I travel to. :))
(My beautiful hippo. :) )

La fin d'octobre et le debut de novembre.

I've given up on dates, as well. Quel dommage...




A plus!

Thursday, November 4, 2010

fillerfillerbababiller

I swear I'll update this very soon.

Promise.


Je te promets.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTZpOkgkkHs