Week 9-10 of Autumn Term

Summary of 9th week in no particular order with a few random pictures:

Study, drink tea, sleep, make cookies, procrastinate, study, eat, make smores, sleep, catch up on shows, study, skip every class, catch up with Wongfu/KevJumba/NigaHiga/David Choi out of boredom, England gets shut down by one foot of snow, study, snow day, eat, more sleep, etc…take test, Christmas potluck, birthday parties…

London

Tiffany, Mike, Susana, and I went to London to enjoy our last weekend in England (well…except for Mike).We went to the Tower of London, where we saw some really cool rooms and amazing crowned jewels. My favorite was this heart shaped scepter (left), it was sooo pretty! If only I was a princess haha.

Mexican food at a pub...it wasn't very good haha but I had to try it!

After our tiring long touristy day, we sat in a pub and ate some random food because we were starving. However, we soon realized that was a mistake when we dropped by the Christmas market. It had so much delicious food but we were all so full! So instead, we ate some churros with chocolate (not as good as the ones in Spain of course!) and drank some hot chocolate (A LOT less chocolatey than America ones).

The market was closing, so we headed to Winter Wonderland in Hyde Park. This place was so festive, there was live music, fair rides, lots of people drinking, and the smell of food everywhere! Hamburgers, frankfurters, chips with random sauces, mulled wine, rum hot chocolate, roasted chestnuts, doughnuts, pretzels, and all the other stuff they eat during the winter…

We sat inside a wooden building with live music outside (they were really good and did lots of mash-ups with old and new pop songs), it was so cute because all the old couples were dancing and having a good time, everyone had huge mugs of beer and a lady even stole one!

That was pretty much the end of our trip, from 8am-10pm. It makes you realize that it is impossible to do London in one day, we were there for 14 hours (including transportation), and only did two things. I’m going to miss this place.

Sunday

“Christmas” lunch

Mmm…

The cappuccino was honestly the best I’ve had in my life. I guess you get what you pay for haha.

Roast escalope of turkey with sausage and chestnut stuffing, garlic and thyme roasted potatoes, bacon chipolata, and a red wine gravy

Rib eye steak served with a béarnaise sauce and daphinoise potatoes

Chocolate panacotta

Christmas pudding with brandy butter and calvados crème fraiche

Yeah...this was lunch...

Week 10

I guess I won’t be updating for a while because apparently China blocks blogger AND flickr AND facebook AND aim…lol, the last 2 I knew, but it’s basically everything I’ve ever used (besides MSN of course). I’m so sad I won’t get to blog about my experience for all of Italy, Paris, Netherlands, Brussels, and Germany until school starts, which by then I’ll probably get too lazy.

I have had such an amazing study abroad experience and been so fortunate to travel everywhere (TEN countries in the course of 4 months) I remember I wasn’t so thrilled that I had to come to England because I wanted to go to Asia. Now that I think back at it, this experience is worth every second of it and I would never trade it to go to Asia.

Cheers

Au Revoir

Ciao

(I gotta start brushing up on my language skills)

Anyway, I’ll see everyone when I get back! Can’t wait!