LITTLE THINGS

I have been the absolute worst at posting recently, but it’s all for good reasons – I swear!  I’ve been doing schoolwork and travelling and been just generally pretty busy.  However, here are all of the pictures of the day from the week or so before I left for my travels and all of the little things I was up to then.

8.2.14 – Meet Godfrey.  He met a swift death shortly after this picture was taken.

9.2.14 – Me and my friend trying to get a matching shirt picture and failing epically at it by just being incredibly spazzy.  

10.2.14 – A quiet day.  I made tea in a jar and wore a sweater that is really just a small blanket.  Here’s a picture.

11.2.14 – I won 2 free tickets to go see the semi-finals of Brain of Britain, which is sort of like BBC’s version of jeopardy.  The questions are so ridiculously hard, though!  There were only about 3 that I knew the answers too.  It’s all very obscure knowledge where the question has seemingly nothing to do with the answer, but the contestants were incredibly impressive and all did really well.

12.2.14 – Rainy day at the Camden Market, where we went to get lunch from one the numerous food stands.  The food here is incredible and there is the most variety in the smallest space that you will probably find in all of London.  So many options, and they all look and smell soooo good.  The rain and wind got pretty ridiculous as we were walking through the rest of the market, so we took a bus home.  Here’s a pseudo-artsy picture through the rainy window.

13.2.14 – I spent 4 hours in Cafe Nero finishing a paper.  Thus, this picture sums up my day.

THE SPORTING LIFE

Football!  Yay!  Sports!  Huzzah!  [Insert sporty phrase here]  I wanted to go to at least one professional football game while I was here, despite that the sportiest I get is the Spice Girls, because it seems to be such a British thing to do.  I decided that Tuesday would be the day because it was only 10 pounds.  It was cold and rainy and no one scored until they were almost done with overtime.  It was 117 minutes in.  This was probably not the best single game to represent the entire sport of football to me, but now that I’ve been to one I feel no need to go to any more.

Apparently that’s what we are!

Oh so sporty.  Look at that run.  Look at that kick.  Go team.

Photo-ception

Final score!

The surrounding area was pretty cute and most houses had gorgeous stained glass on their windows and doors!  Also I thought it was funny that I caught this guy picking his nose.  I’m not normally this immature, I promise.

Did I mention that it was cold and rainy?  Did I mention how cold and rainy?  Did I mention that we stood in the cold and rainy for over 2 hours?  I could not feel my feet at all when we were leaving the stadium and my toes were literally blue.  I actually, genuinely thought that I would never be able to be warm ever again.  Then, out of the darkness came the most beautiful shining gleaming light.  Could it be?  Yes!  The safe haven of the warm, dry bus here to save our tired, poor, huddled masses yearning to breathe free.  This picture is the most important picture.

^^^Photo of the Day 4.2.14

FOR WHAT IT’S WORTH…

…this is what I’ve been up to the past couple weeks when I’ve been incredibly awful at keeping up with my posts.  It’s better late than never, though, which is good for me because I’m perpetually late.  To sum up, here’s what’s been going on in my life the past week or so.

26.1.14 – Recovering from Cambridge/doing work/all you can eat buffet in Chinatown!  It was about 7 pounds most places, and the food wasn’t great, especially concerning vegetarian options, but it was a fun experience!

 ^^^Photo of the Day 26.1.14

27.1.14 – Study and tea day 🙂

^^^Photo of the Day 27.1.14

28.1.14 – Tuesdays are the day where I have class the entire day, so nothing much exciting happened today.  I was given fudge flavoured yogurt at the dining hall, which was an interesting sensory experience…

 ^^^Photo of the Day 28.1.14

29.1.14 – There’s a very important picture of me making a snowman out of tater tots, peas, and carrots at the dining hall on this day that I am not currently in possession of.  Stay tuned for that gem.

30.1.14 – So this week was a pretty rainy and lazy week, if you hadn’t figured out from the lack of exciting things to take pictures of the past three days.  Thursday followed this trend when we opted to hang out and watch frozen and do mostly nothing all day.  However, Frozen is incredible so I’m not even sorry about it.  If you haven’t seen it stop everything and so see it right now.  No!  Stop reading!!!  Start watching it!!!! Go! Now!!!

 ^^^Photo of the Day 30.1.14  (So, yeah, I didn’t take any pictures this day…)

31.1.14 – Exploring day!  After a week of doing basically nothing I decided to go out on a rainy Friday adventure!  It twas so joyous of an occasion that it deserves its own post, coming soon to a computer near you!

 ^^^Photo of the Day 31.1.14

1.2.14 – Evensong at Westminster Abbey.  It was incredibly beautiful, and also will have it’s own post in the near future.

 ^^^Photo of the Day 1.2.14

2.2.14 – The Chinese New Year Parade in Chinatown. You may wonder why I chose such a bad picture for the photo of the day. Well, it’s because this photograph captures the experience. There were no barricades, so the crowd descended on the parade like a swarm of flies armed with iPhones and cameras, making it impossible to see anything. It was ridiculous.  We also went to a Super Bowl party (woo,sports) that was hosted by UCL’s American society.

^^^Photo of the Day 2.2.14

3.2.14 – Sleep and studying.  Those days are boring, but necessary.  Here’s a picture of my bulletin board that is rapidly filling up with programs, business cards, flyers and postcards from things that I’ve done and been too.  A bunch have things have been added, even just in the past week.  By the time I leave I probably will have taken up then entire board and the surrounding wall.

^^^Photo of the Day 3.2.14

4.2.14 – Football!  Yay!  Sports!  Huzzah!  [Insert sporty phrase here]  I wanted to go to at least one professional football game while I was here because it seems to be such a British thing to do, despite that the sportiest I get is the Spice Girls, so on Tuesday I went because it was only 10 pounds.  It was cold and rainy and no one scored until they were almost done with overtime.  It was 117 minutes in.  This was probably not the best single game to represent the entire sport of football to me, but now that I’ve been to one I feel no need to go to any more.

^^^Photo of the Day 4.2.14

5.2.14 – Went to see Giselle at the Royal Opera House!  It was only 9 pounds and completely gorgeous 🙂  More to come on this event too!

^^^Photo of the Day 5.2.14

6.2.14 – Nothing much really happened today besides rain, silliness, and indecisiveness.  We tend to decide to go to places and then decide it’s too expensive after we get there and just end up wandering around trying to find cheaper places only to remember we’re in London, so we just end up walking all over only to go home, but c’est la vie.  Here is a lovely snapchat that we took during one of such excursions.

7.2.14 – This day will get it’s own post very soon because I both went to Hyde Park and to see the BBC symphony orchestra! Here’s a picture of Hyde Park to tide you over until then 🙂

ANOTHER TOWN

Here is my Cambridge post!  It’s about a week late – sorry!  I’ve been really bad at keeping up with the posts, but I have been taking pictures, so I do have things to post once I get around to it!  Last Saturday we took the train to Cambridge for a day trip.  It was 8 pounds per person for a return ticket when bought in a group of four.  To clarify, a return ticket means there and back, or round trip, not just your ticket for coming back.

The city was cute, but there really wasn’t much to do there.  It was definitely not as cool as Brighton.  It was sort of like the older area of London, but smaller.  It was aesthetically pleasing, but not necessarily entertaining.

We left from King’s Cross station.

“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean it is not real?”

Breakfast from a stand at Market Square, in the centre of the city.  There was sooo much bread!

King’s College

Some pretty building that is probably important, but I don’t remember what it is…

An incredibly distasteful board game from a store that was basically entirely devoted to weaponry.  Looks like American’s aren’t the only ones stupid about guns and violence.

Pretty streets of Cambridge!  The last one of the doors is photo of the day 25.1.14!