November Summary

Oxford Street in mid November.

It's been way too long since I updated this. I meant to do it after I transfered more pictures to my computer but that seemed like too much effort for a while so it didn't happen until now. I have some schoolwork to finish up tonight so I'll just try and cover the highlights of the last 3 weeks.

The London Eye.

On the 15th Rez and I celebrated our 2 year anniversary (although the actual date is the 16th). We went on the London Eye which takes roughly a half hour to go around once. It provides a wonderful view of the city and we were lucky that our 'pod' wasn't very full seeing as we went at night. We also went out to eat at a Japanese restaurant which was very nice. On a side note I was a bit tired that day from staying up the entire night before writing an essay for my British Life and Culture class. I got that back yesterday and got an A on it.

Zahra and Rez on a carousel.

On the following Saturday (the 20th) I went to the Science Museum and Natural History Museum with Rez and her 5 year old cousin Zahra. We had a lot of fun together. At the start of the day Zahra was shy and hid behind Rezzy (even though she'd met me twice before) but by halfway through the day she was holding my hand and asking for piggy back rides.

Rez reaching into a T-Rex's mouth! Oh no!!!

Zahra with the remains of a 'Feathered, Flightless Giant'

For Thanksgiving our study abroad group met at a pub in Fulham and we were given a special Thanksgiving dinner. We were allowed to bring guests so naturally I invited Rez. Some students' parents showed up and a girl on the trip's boyfriend from St. John's (not in the SA group) even came. All in all maybe about 40 people were there. The food was really late and there wasn't really enough for everyone. They pub's kitchen had some complications because the chef's father had died the day before. The dinner was quite fun but went much later than we thought it would so Rez and I had to postpone booking our European travels.

Students at the table before Thanksgiving dinner.

This last Sunday night after Rez got off of work we came back to South Ken and after visiting with Mutian for a hour we booked our European Trip. We'll be sending a detailed itinerary home soon. The trip will go as follows: London -> Amsterdam -> Berlin -> Venice -> Florence -> Rome -> Barcelona -> Paris -> London. Obviously covering this many places in only 12 days won't allow us to see everything but we'll do our best to make the most of the time we have in each city.

Snow!

Today I got my wish and it snowed in London which is exceedingly rare here especially for this time of year. Seeing it outside the window when I woke up helped me start the day off in a good mood. It's still going now (some 16 hours later) although it has slowed down quite a bit. No snow really built up during the day since it would melt as soon as it landed on anything but late in the evening it built up enough on the ground for me to make a snowball to throw at Rez.