Day 9

On Thursday, it was nice being able to sleep in, since our class didn’t start until 1pm. For class each week we have to write a journal entry on a topic he assigns to us. For this week it was to write about a shopping experience and compare it to the US. I did mine about shopping at Tesco. In class he told us some history about London and its relations with Scotland and Wales. That lasted about 2 hours and then we went on a tour of the Museum of London. Most of the Museum of London is about the archeology and what they found about the Romans that had lived there. There were replications of the rooms that the upper class and lower class lived in and the heating system was developed by the Romans. There was also an exhibit about the Medieval Ages in London. It was ironic that the Romans’ homes were much more advanced in terms of number of rooms and heating compared to the medieval homes’ one room. After our class ended, we grabbed some food from EAT, a popular chain in London, and then went back to our apartment to get ready. A girl in our flat works at a PR firm and they were having a premier party for the release of the DVD Love and Other Drugs. It was a short walk from our apartment and it was held in the basement of an old theater. There were endless glasses of champagne, nail appointments, and chocolate truffles. We then watched the movie, which I thought was cute. It was exciting being able to go to a DVD premier.