ok so wheres waldo here is called...wheres wally. ugh...haha, funny moment at the penny last night with my good bartender friend pete. and apparently we say wimbledon with a 't'. but its ok i caught our friend tim saying ya'll....!
bahaha
So, apologies again about lack of posting of the blog-age. Yeah, be mad, do it. i know you are....i just got out of class today at around 10:30 because i had my first class...persuasion. then i had to do my presentation for my independent study. i read a book called 'why zebras don't get ulcers.' yeah, it was a tough, exausting read. it was ROUGH. lots of neuroscience, biology, and about 3 sentences of psychology. but still really, ubber interesting.
[skip this paragraph if ya dont wanna know about psychological-ness]
what i had to do was present the relationship of growth and stress in adoloescence. and of course i know how interested you are to know the relationship about this. its kinda nuts, your parents can literally be so bad...that you are dwarfed physically and obviously psychologically. hit me with some comments if ya wanna know, thats the infomercial of my presentation...so let me know if ya wanna know more...but the presentation went fantastically well. i think i may have gotton an a, my teacher said that i had the most interesting cleaver way to describe an inverse relationship. i used 2 cups of dr. pepper and poured them back and forth. homework assignment is you with two glasses trying to figure that out....;)
aaaaanyway, so i spent the entire day yesterday in london...we went to westminster abbey and left cant.terbury freaking early as hell. i woke up at 7 with the plan to go get coffee, and ended up...sleeping for way too long and got up at 8 and met up with everyone for the walk, nay, hike...nay, jourey, nay, EXPEDITION to the train station. our friend sarah wears heels everywhere, which blows my mind cause how the hell can you walk that much on those...im not a girl and im ubber impressed. its ok, liz explained the finer relationship between walking and falling in heels.
its gonna be her thesis going into grad school...
aaaaaanyway, so here it is we get to london's station and walk about a mile down to westminster. now the abbey is actually where alot of england's most famed people are buried. so, people like Charles Darwin, Queen Elizabeth I, Sir Issac Newton, Winston Churchill, all the royality. its freaking amazing. the weird thing though, is that a) they wouldnt let us take pictures...b) they wouldnt give us a map of whos buried where. so we'd be walking around and be like...woah, theres darwin. theres, newton...it was crasyness. (the english seem to be against using 'z'. realize is spelled realise, nuts huh!?!) anyway, so the abbey was amazing...i dropped a guitar pick onto churchill's grave by 'accident' so....thats kinda cool i guess...
...and...then....it...HAPPENED!!!!
we were walking around having a good time, eating our expensive food when someone tells me about a rumor. i'm not one to believe alot of rumors, but if theres a chance to see someone than i'd love the opportunity, like what do i have to lose right? well a bunch of people approved 'said rumor' and even the guys running the place approved it. so liz and gabby and i (i fixed my grammer mom, you'd of FREAKED out had you seen what i typed before, sigh) anyway.. go to prove them all wrong, because we didnt believe that he was here. we were, naw, theres no freaking way...theyre yanking our chains, cause we're dumb ole americans....naw, it was true...sylvester stallon was walking around westminster with his family. haha, you read it right mis bloger friend. we're walking around looking at everything, and freaking rocky is hanging out over there in a black shirt and aviators. (not conspicious at all!!) but, it was really cool to see the guy. so gabby and i forced ourselvs into a postion where we could maybe get him to talk to us. mission one. well, we're standing literally right behind rambo, and i say
me: "man thats an old piano, i just wanna jam out!"
rocky: "....."
gabby: "gee i wonder what this is" (as she points right at what he's looking at"
rambo: "........"
us....lame, he's with the fam its understandable.
anyway, so that was freaking amazing. of all the people to see, theres he is walking around. it was nuts!!!!!!!! i was gonna go up and introduce myself but, he was with the fam i didnt wanna impose, that aint cool
anyway, so after the rambo sighting we made fun of everyone for not believing us and we headed for the imperical war museum. now this museum as can see looks like a freaking high school. but the inside was AMAZING. about 5 total floors with many of exhibits. gabby and i ended up spending about 3 hours in there. we were blown. a. way. there were exhibits from d-day to the holocaust. from the rise of hitler to a 007 exhibition. we're definatly going back next tuesday. my camera died in the middle of it all so thats lame-age. but i'll get more tuesday.
the holocaust exhibit really got me. i wasnt able to take pics, but there was this table that they set up where they used to give lethal injections to physically and mentally ill or challened people. they had this table of auschwitz (the death camp in germany) and they showed where the trains went, where the barracks were and the 'ramp.' the ramp is where a nazi doctor would decide who is fit for work and who will be sent to the gas chambers or the 'showers.' they usually sent the pregnant women, women, children and elderly to the chambers, only taking the 'fit for work.' it was really powerful seeing the line of people, even in a model.
annnnnnnnyway, so i also saw the v-2 rocket which was used in part of the blitz on london. the blitz was a huge bombing of london where something like 16000 civilians were killed by german air raids around 1940. its nuts to be in that kind of city. apparently cant.terbury got hit real hard too, theres a creater around here somewhere. and a museum of an ancient roman house that they found when they were cleaning up after the blitz. nuts eh?
anyway, so we left the museum after seeing just amazing stuff. and headed towards waterloo where we stopped at a pub and had a kroneburg. i added to my glass collection, now at 8, by getting a glass from london. bahah. those WERE gonna be souvies, buuuuut. im still debating on that one. well thats pretty much it, after the bur, we left on the train getting back to cant.terbury and passed out early. got up did what i did in the first paragraph...and now i'm here.
we leave for ROME tomorrow. vatican will be friday, collosium, saturday. obviously thats not ALL we're gonna see but its the basic plan so far. ive got it all planned out, from meeting up with trey (my hostle roomie) to when and where we go where. i dont even care, im gonna quarterback this one, make sure we hit everywhere where everyone wants to go. thank you rick steves. and dad. much thanks to dad. and amazon.
anyway, so thats the story. i'm gonna go to strada, a restraunt down the street where i have a cup of COFFEE not this americano crap...tis good sctuff. theres usally a street performer there whos got a PHENOMINAL voice, he playes live's lightning crashes all the time. its amazing, john i know you'd love it. anyway, im done here...enjoy the heat!
[by the way, the pics are uploading on photobucket. im gonna get the link, and put it at the bottom, there are about 300 something on there. im working on getting the rest up. im working with pc's so be patient. i miss my mac. good god i think i have typing ADHD. this is bad!?!]
here's the link....
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