Tuesday, June 7- 528 Steps

June 7- Tuesday

Back to the chariot, carry on

So they have wireless Internet here at the home stay... major plus! I woke up at 6am to the bright sun and the birds singing. Here it's super cold (50 degrees at night and high of 65 in the day). We weren't going to get up until 8am but I couldn't fall back asleep. Turns out everyone in the group woke up around 5 to 6 am too.

We stayed awake for 32 hours yesterday! It's weird being here.... in a partly disallusioned way—like a the feeling from a half remembered dream. Today, Tuesday will be fun and easy. They are taking us around and there is no need for us to be too, lost. We have orientation and then a 4 hour quick tour of the city. Tonight we have a big dinner with everyone.

We even got up early this morning and went to the corner store for sandwich supplies and snacks!

We had orientation in the classroom with blackend windows. They did that so we for the presentations but I learned they used to do that in London back in the wartime making it harder for Germany to spot London by it’s massive light pollution at night.

Guided Site-Seeing Tour with Justin

One strong cup of English tea

After that we toured the districts of central London and passing by many gardens and tourists areas. Learned that they now have a 10lb fee for motorists driving in to London City (per day). They’re trying to get people to use the tube more but ironically many lines are temporary shut down because they’re trying to fix everything up to code for the 2012 Olympics. Conspiracies they say…

Justin our Tour Guide took us into St. Pauls Cathedral and we walked up the 528 stair steps to get to the top.

Around steps 400ish after we’re all panting and the burning in our calves are setting in and Sterling yells “Who… built this thing!” and it echos down the stairwell. Everyone was in hysterics with laughter. 528 steps later... we have the most amazing view of the city!

End of the Night- Dinner at the Giraffe

We ended the night by going by the Giraffe. Lisa and I sat at the end with the boys and were very entertained.

Everyone wanted to meet up at the Ex-Church Pub but it kinda fell apart. Some people still found it but only 5minutes before they closed lol. Instead Lisa and I bought Chablis and finished the whole bottle pretty quickly because I destroyed the cork. I managed to have the bottom half stuck inside the bottle.

We ended the night with terrible bitter dry wine and watching a BBC 3 Show, Angry Boys with Chris Lilley. BBC 3 Freaks—I love them! We also watched the new Fright Night trailer with David Tennant and it looks cheesy but still exciting!