Catch up blog

Even though I’m here sitting in a hotel room in Edinburgh..I need to do some catch up blogging before I can talk about Spring break!

So I left off with studying for my art midterm…

March 16: Art midterm! It wasn’t that bad, exactly what we had studied for.  During the exam however we took a quick break to watch a police escorted student protest! In case you didn’t know, which I didn’t, universities in London used to be free (or 1,000 pounds a year, maybe even less). However recently, I’m not sure exactly, that’s been upped to around 5,000 or something like that. I don’t know the numbers precisely, I just know that know there is a tuition, and university students don’t like it. So we got to watch part of the protest. Pretty cool.

Afterwards, we did a little bit of shopping around London, so I could finally buy my green skinny jeans! What I think is cool from that shopping, is that places like Forever 21 and definitely H&M are kind of higher end over here. Especially H&M, it’s very trendy here, and not really associated with cheap or poor quality, though the prices are still pretty reasonable. So there’s some London fashion education for you.

March 15: Since class was cancelled, Katie (KJ) and I had a relaxing morning, and then spent the rest of the day in the Covent Garden area of London. We started with the markets. That was fun, it was a gorgeous day out, but the weekly market is not nearly as cool as the weekend market with arts and crafts. So in other words, I still need to go back again. We did however make friends with some New Zealanders, living in Berlin, on holiday in London. So that’s cool. Then we met up with Julia for dinner at Benito’s Hat, which in other words is a London Moe’s (but with quite a few less chips). Still delicious.

We ended the night with Singin’ In the Rain. Now I’ve never seen the classic movie, but this musical stage production was so great!! The dancing and choreography blew me away! I’m really craving the music now too, so I can listen to it all again! The rain during the title song was so impressive; people in the first few rows were even splashed from the dancing ha.

 

March 16: Nothing to say. I know even a boring day in London is still great because I’m in London…but I really didn’t do anything. It was pretty gross out, and we had to get ready to fly to Edinburgh the next day! So with that, I’ll leave you in suspense, and blog about part one of spring break later :)