Week 5 (sorry for the delay) 7/5-7/8
On Monday we had class and for some reason Alan was not on top of his usual game and this week sooooo the best
I can do is “Did you know at this exact spot, exactly 5 years ago, the bombings happened on buses just like these?” We had our in class lecture and this week we all (well minus the few who missed it but made an epic/movie moment effort to run) took the bus to Hampstead Heath. Ironically, we were just here the day before for our 4th of July celebration. Alan was right though, five years ago at Russell’s Square (where we caught the bus) is where the semi-coordinated attacks occurred. It was a sad moment but that was not going to ruin my first REAL double-decker bus ride. When we arrived in Hampstead I kinda zoned out. Even though I got a lot of sleep the night before, I was so exhausted that day for no reason. There were a few cool aspects to Hampstead besides the beautiful hill. We walked around the city and got to see the old and new architecture of the city. As we walked we came across an old church and a cemetery. Cemetery doesn’t seem like such a big deal, but it is. Underground graves are not allowed within London so we were out of the city limits enough to have bodies under the ground! Weird but kind of interesting. The graveyard that we visited had some famous people there, but the ones that stood out to me the most was the Llewelyn-Davies Family. They were made famous because many of the main characters from Peter Pan were based off and named after members of this family. The child inside of me will never die I guess. Other random things I saw and learned about Hampstead. For the neighborhood watch sign, their mascot of choice was the meerkat…very cute and funny. I saw the house where the author of “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” lived and wrote, I also saw the house where the idea of the crazy admiral from Mary Poppins may have spurred up. If you don’t know what I’m talking about…watch Mary Poppins. Our goal for class was to climb up the Hampstead hill all the way. Once we reached the top, Alan decided to share stories of how gross the water was back in the day. There is a water source on top of the hill t
hat everyone coming and leaving the town would use (and so would their animals-in multiple capacities, use your imagination). There was a contest when microscopes were invented to see where the cleanest and dirtiest water was…oddly enough, Hampstead won the prize for the cleanest. Disturbing.
On Monday we had class and for some reason Alan was not on top of his usual game and this week sooooo the best
I can do is “Did you know at this exact spot, exactly 5 years ago, the bombings happened on buses just like these?” We had our in class lecture and this week we all (well minus the few who missed it but made an epic/movie moment effort to run) took the bus to Hampstead Heath. Ironically, we were just here the day before for our 4th of July celebration. Alan was right though, five years ago at Russell’s Square (where we caught the bus) is where the semi-coordinated attacks occurred. It was a sad moment but that was not going to ruin my first REAL double-decker bus ride. When we arrived in Hampstead I kinda zoned out. Even though I got a lot of sleep the night before, I was so exhausted that day for no reason. There were a few cool aspects to Hampstead besides the beautiful hill. We walked around the city and got to see the old and new architecture of the city. As we walked we came across an old church and a cemetery. Cemetery doesn’t seem like such a big deal, but it is. Underground graves are not allowed within London so we were out of the city limits enough to have bodies under the ground! Weird but kind of interesting. The graveyard that we visited had some famous people there, but the ones that stood out to me the most was the Llewelyn-Davies Family. They were made famous because many of the main characters from Peter Pan were based off and named after members of this family. The child inside of me will never die I guess. Other random things I saw and learned about Hampstead. For the neighborhood watch sign, their mascot of choice was the meerkat…very cute and funny. I saw the house where the author of “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” lived and wrote, I also saw the house where the idea of the crazy admiral from Mary Poppins may have spurred up. If you don’t know what I’m talking about…watch Mary Poppins. Our goal for class was to climb up the Hampstead hill all the way. Once we reached the top, Alan decided to share stories of how gross the water was back in the day. There is a water source on top of the hill t
hat everyone coming and leaving the town would use (and so would their animals-in multiple capacities, use your imagination). There was a contest when microscopes were invented to see where the cleanest and dirtiest water was…oddly enough, Hampstead won the prize for the cleanest. Disturbing. On our way down the hill Alan pointed out “cute” zig-zag chimneys and the fact that people have pride in using buildings with weird history. Finally, we learned about the window tax. They tried to tax the rich more because the bigger the house, the more windows it would have. The bigger the house, the wealthier you were. Well, there are ways around this…it’s called bricking up windows. We saw an example of that first hand as well. When I got home, I did laundry, mailed letters and postcards and just had a chill night.
Tuesday I had a rather slow afternoon at work. My supervisor was out for the week so I had to search for things to do that day. I did however do my new reports and they went smoothly. The tube this week was awful. I almost didn’t get to work on time. Not that it really matters, the sense of time and promptness is very different here than back home. I’m a very on-time type of person and here it is much different, very relaxed. If you are an hour late, then they start to think that perhaps something went wrong. Not like that has happened to me, but I have learned not to panic as much if I am close to being on time (since I am usually 5 minutes early). But the tube was PACKED on the way home. At one point I was being touched by 7 other people…that is how much I hate the tube sometimes. It is very convenient, but when there are delays and people are packed on I just close my eyes and think of wide open places of back home. Heard from my Orchard relative, Vanessa and she is going to be in town on Wednesday and wanted to meet up and take me out for dinner after I got off work on Oxford Street. On Tuesday I also got the long awaited mail package from Aaron. I love getting mail! Good day overall.
Wednesday I shadowed Matt in the afternoon and he…get ready for this…LET ME EDIT A VIDEO! That was awesome! I didn’t get to just sit there and got to have my editing hands get dirty. I was nervous about how he would like it, but he thought I did I good job and then both he and I worked together to finish it up. The piece was about fish in a Japanese Aquarium “playing” soccer. Not exciting, but so cool none the less. I was planning on meeting up with Vanessa after work and she was going to call me after I got off….guess who forgot her phone in her room? ME! Worked late and got home at about 545. I just caught her and we met up at Oxford around 6. She spoiled me rotten! Took me to a nice Italian place a few streets south of Oxford street station where we had a wonderful dinner. Two and a half hours later after pasta, dessert, coffee, loads of conversations, and a bottle of wine I was VERY content. We planned for me to come out to Elsenham that weekend and get some country air. I have needed that very badly. Getting out of London will be a nice change of pace. Got home around 9 and was kinda tipsy from the wine. I chilled, took a shower, and then climbed into bed.
Thursday was a rough day. I was up late that night because I forgot that we were going to have a visitor for the night, oh Kyle. So we were all up and chatting and such until 130. That on top of me being kind of tipsy made for a rough Thursday, made it through though with help from people I work with. I worked on a Justin Beiber piece called “the world according to…” so when we saved the project, it was titled “TWAT Justin Beiber” that made my day better. Funny thing happen around 1030 though, the internet went down. More than half of our office needs the internet to get their job done, so we were just sitting around shooting the breeze unable to work. We didn’t hear anything from our server until almost 3, at that point all but 4 of our office went home. Funny how much power the internet now has in our daily life and society. Needless to say, I went home early that day. It didn’t get fixed for a while.
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