Saturday, March 28, 2009

No words Can Describe

I just returned from my long study tour with my business class to London and Brussels and I really just don’t even know where to start. I had an amazing time and we did a lot of really cool activities but cannot begin to describe the amount of disorganization in this trip.

We had two tour leaders, one of which was my “grader” (like a teaching assistant) for my business class. He cannot formulate sentences correctly (“Can you make a photo of me” when asking someone to take a picture of him) and obviously cannot understand a conversation. In addition this 27 year old man grading our papers feels the need to hit on all of the girls like its his job. He also would show up to breakfast when it was time to leave for the day and decided we would leave 10 minutes later. It was about 20-30 minutes later when the entire group showed up and we left for the day. For example, on one

Anyway, back to the trip. I loved London; it reminded me a lot of NYC, which is probably why I liked it so much. The pound also is not doing well, so the city was a lot cheaper than Copenhagen.

We flew into London Sunday morning and after checking into our Hotel went to Shakespeare’s Globe Theater which was super cool. The original theater that Shakespeare’s plays were in was burnt down but they re-built a replica about 10 years ago and have shows during the summer. At night I walked around and saw all the sights, Big Ben, Parliament, Buckingham Palace, The London Eye and much more at night which was really cool and much more worthwhile than going to a bar another night! However at the end of the night my friend Molly and I decided not to wait for the elevator because there were so many people waiting and take the stairs. Bad idea. We missed the sign that said not to take he stairs because there were 175 of them; making 10 flights of a spiral staircase seem endless.

The next day we had a tour and lunch in Brick Lane. Delicious. I had been scared to try Indian food because there were so many Indian restaurants near my middle school bus stop that we passed everyday staying as far away as possible because it smelled so bad. I cannot wait to have Indian food again. That night we saw Wicked at the Apollo Theater and had amazing seats; I loved it. We went to a bar near our hotel but last call in London is 12! wow.

The next day we took a bike tour around London and got to see all the awesome sights quickly. We rode the London Eye, which is basically like a huge enclosed ferris wheel and got an awesome view of the city.

The next day we only left about 45 minutes late to head to Wimbledon (where the tennis championships take place!); at the station where we were switching trains there was an evacuation while we were there so that added a bit more time to our journey. After finally arriving we got a really cool tour of the grounds, tennis courts, press room, changing rooms and more!

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