London: Day 10

It’s been a little over a week since I’ve been in London. It literally seems like it’s been a month. We do so much on a day to day basis. And I guess since I’m waking up at 8:30 everyday (like a normal person), versus my usual, 11:00am hour, my days seem much longer.

The class I’m taking is an experimental art class, because they haven’t made the title official yet. What we do is, on Monday, we visit a design office, and they present to us what they do for the 2012 Olympics. Last week, we went to AECOM (they have locations worldwide, including Irvine) and they are in charge of building the framework of the legacy for after the Olympics. They plan on building a community park out of the stadiums, pools, and fields. So our first project was to create a monument to commemorate the medalists of each sport. We had all week to create everything on the Adobe programs, and then go back to AECOM on Friday and present to them. They were impressed with all of our groups, which was great, because we worked 9-5, Monday through Thursday on it!

Finally the weekend. Besides doing working all day, we also went out at night. We went to Camden, Soho, Oxford Circus, and a bunch of other places to walk around and shop. We got to ride the London Eye, which is a giant ferris wheel. The sights were amazing! On Saturday, we went to Kew Gardens which was beautiful. Yesterday, we took a train to Oxford which was even more beautiful!! It is definitely nothing like home. The architecture was gorgeous. We visited the school that Harry Potter was filmed at. Walking around, I felt like I was in the movie, haha.

All this walking around and catching trains and working has drained all the energy out of me. I’m so tired every morning when I wake up, I hardly have time to scarf down toast and a yogurt. But nevertheless, I’m finding time to fit everything in! I miss home though. I find myself saying “I really wanna go to the beach”. And all my friends from home are posting awesome pictures from the north shore and eating delicious plate lunches Don’t get me wrong, London is wonderful, but I could never live here!

I uploaded more pictures. If you want to see anything in particular, or want more people pictures, let me know!! I figure architecture and the surroundings are more interesting