London Post!

My roommate let me use her laptop to post this so here is the london story;

Date of blogspot: 11/07/2010

BACK IN PARIEEE TODAY!!!

Synopsis of my AMAZING trip to Londres, L’Angleterre aka LONDON ENGLAND, oh yes, I didddd go.

Left class at 12, it was a good class. My teacher used me in an example to explain the French word for emanate and said janet emanates sunshine bahahaha awesome he loves me.

After class I grabbed some food to munch on and ate with my buddies in the courtyard. Then I asked them to watch my backpack and travel gear while I visited les toilettes and of courseeee they hid behind a truck with my things so that when I came out I got a surprise. I totally knew they would do that lol, it was funny b/c this French guy was CRACKING upppp watching it all go down.

Then I traveled over to the opera metro stop and just sat in a shady spot and talked with Montana, the girl we were to stay with in London and one of my sorority sisters, and we figured out how we were meeting up and she told me she would come to the train station and all was well.

I hit up the currency exchange and used my visa for 30 pounds…I later got 60 out with the use of my debit though b/c 30 pounds goes not too far.

Jessica came a bit later, I was super early. We hit the metro and then went to gare du nord, the biggest train station in paris. It was enorme and sooo complex but we asked for directions. It was swelllltering hot and we were too early for our line so we stopped in a restaurant and got a carrif d’eau or water pitcher and we had ruby..cool or fresh? Drinks? They were orange juice pamplemousse juice and lemonade, yum but I chugged mine I was so hot and thirsty!

Soon we had to get in line and waited for probably ½ hour in line for customs. Lucky I had written down some information about where Montana was staying b/c we needed a sort-of-address which was inconvenient but we made it through and security didn’t say anything to me when I had 2 bottles of wine in my bag haha!! I got them as thanks to Montana for letting us stay with her.

Both jess and I then got gourmands which is a long croissant essentially with chocolate and then we sat and waited some more!! Finally, we were able to get on our train and I slept through the chunnel coolness of course but oh well, it was a fantastic nap and I woke up to see England countryside, beautiful and sort of like ohio hilly.

Arrived, my phone worked so we were able to coordinate with Montana where to specifically meet and while we were waiting I had the Londoner sandwich at a deli place which was sausage, bacon and egg mayo stuff, sooo good. Then we met up w/ Montana and her friends and went walking with her and her friends to a train then to a place called odeon which is like a big multi-leveled mall. We sat down and had unlimited re-fill fantas and some people had chicken and we all relaxed. Then, at 9 45 england time, I went into the theatre with popcorn and water in towe and I SAWWW twilight eclipse. Fantastic, I’m such a nerd. It was awesome though.

After the movie, it was around 12am so we went back to montana’s place to crash on a DOUBLE DECKER BUS yayyyy. She had an extra room for jess and I shared montana’s bed, super COZYYYY lol her room is petite but I had fun. That was DAY one, a total of like…5 trains and 1 bus? Lotsss of travel but so much fun.

Early morning on Saturday about 8am, jess and I took showers and had montana’s eggs and coffee and an apple for me for breakfast, it was swell :) then we took a metro with her friends to buckinham palace and when we arrived it was the changing of the guards!!! Probably one of the coolest things ive ever seen. I took a video or two lol it was awesome. Then after that we split from her friends and just went us three to westminister abbey, big ben, the London eye and just saw everything. We didn’t go up the eye it looked to be about a 3 hour line and not for 20 lb.

We walked along le thames, saw a show by city hall of young dancers that was really fun and outside so freeee, saw both the tower bridge and London bridge (yes I did sing the song), toured asia essentially at an outdoor festival and ate Japanese ice cream which is like..creamy little balls of jelly and ice cream inside so interesting, we walked by the tower of London (it was expensive and we would’ve only had an hour inside so we opted out) and went into a smelly red telephone box. The day was packed full!! For lunch in the middle of it we stopped by a nicer place and I had sausage, mashed potatoes and onion gravy AHHHHH delicious. Whoever said London food sucked was lying, it was yummyyy.

After it all was done, about 5ish, we decided to go home, bought some kit kat bars with carmel and fantas and were headed into the underground but our eyes were caught by a spooky sign for a JACK THE RIPPER TOUR, 5 lb for students so WE TOTALLY WENT!!! I lied down on the exact spot one of the victims had been laid covered in a tarp. Awesome. It was us three and RANDOMLY a girl from Chicago that had been studying in berlin and was now on holiday. The man that took us was adorable, a genius, random and sooo chatty we all barely talked and the tour went over 2 hours b/c he was chatting about everything and making jokes we didn’t understand with a cockney accent but we loved him soooo. It was a blast, mildly terrifying and I feel sooo much closer to my grandma and I know she was watching over me and loving that I was on a tour of a serial killer’s murders. How perfect.

After the tour, we did go home by underground aka London metro and we stopped at local fast food places, jess and Montana got kfc chicken and IIIIII got FAMOUS FISH AND CHIPS, soooooo deliciously bad for me but fantastic. We ate in montana’s room, had a little wine and just had fun. Her internet connection is amazing so I played on facebook a bit too. I miss internet!!!

After we hung out for a bit we went to a place called oceania? I think that was it’s name, it’s a famous dance bar with like…7 huge rooms w/ different themes. My favorite room was the huge ballroom dance floor w/ chandelier and 2 levels. Highlight of the night-singing halfway there by bon jovi with Montana and Englishmen for karaoke and hearing don’t stop believing at least 58720 times.

Headed home about 2 45ish, took a taxi for only 10 lb and then met up with montana’s friends and teacherrrr drinking outside her dorm. We sat with them for a while. One guy from Michigan called ohio the genital wart of Michigan and montana’s teacher told me to slap him so I gave his face a pat, but that means I have slapped a man, what an achievement! I wouldn’t have down it if he didn’t say I could and the teacher told me to. Montana was pleased I think lol.

After that, we hit the hay. Woke up about 8am again this morning, packed, took some undergrounds, said goodbye to Montana IMISSYOUUUU and ate a KRISPY kreme for breakfast umm yumm and then starbucks at the station. Walked around a bit with jess and then made it through customs no problem, bought the new twilight book for 5 remaining pounds and had a muffin. Slept the wholeeee ride home, sooo tired. Am home now, im going to take a shower and then hopefully go see the game somewhere tonight and do hmwk. Glad to be back but what an adventure!!! I splurged and bought a 25 lb zip-up for 16 lb b/c I haggled with the guy. I dooo love it. I also bought a mini magnet of a guard, I love them so.

then on the 11th at night i wrote another blog:

---sooo tonighttt was the big night for L’ESPAGNE!! After taking a shower, I met up with two friends at the Eiffel tower to see the CRAZINESS that is world cup games. Literally thousands of people sitting there it was stuffy and uncomfortable and one of our other friends got completely blocked by rude people standing in front of him. I let my one friend have my seat so he could see the game and then me and my two friends walked a bit and found a bar where we could sit right in front of the screen instead of miles away and crowded haha. We ate pizza, ice cream and crème brulee while watching the fantastic game, I feel bad my friend was rooting for Holland…I said go spain because my brother loves spain but really I was like..GO TEAM! It was an intense game. Sooo glad I got to see it. Im bummed my internet isn’t working right now. But I’m off to bed!!