This morning I woke up coughing, as I have for the past week. It’s pretty hard to sleep at night when I am constantly coughing, but I have made it through so far. A lot of us are getting sick—perhaps its because we are just doing too much and wearing ourselves too thin. Plus the cold damp weather can’t be helping. Anyway, today was an optional day trip and since I’m attempting to do as much as I can and use my time well while I’m here, I opted in. There were only 8 of us and Steve and Dr. Chambers—but I think it worked well having a small group. We all left for Paddington Station to catch a train to Windsor Castle! Interestingly the train tickets to and from Windsor were really cheap.
After about 30 minutes of traveling we arrived at the massive castle. It was huge! We got there just in time to watch the changing of the guards. It was really cool to see the show and hear the music. Next we toured the state apartments, which was pretty much like an art gallery/ museum. There were so many portrait paintings and so much lavish luxury. It was cool to see how expansive the palace was, yet how much stuff they could get in the hundreds of rooms. It was also pretty cool to be at a place that the royal family spends a lot of time at. Then we all met up for lunch at this place called EAT (I had a cheese sandwich with pear chutney- yummy). It was really good sandwiches and soup for a decent price. Overall it was a nice day trip back and we got to ride trains which was a good change from always riding the tube.
Today, again, was going to be a busy day. After the day trip all the girls in my flat decided that tonight would be the last chance we have to see a show in London. I really did want to catch a show while I was here, I was just nervous about prices. We called around a bunch of places and finally settled on going to see Cabaret (since none of us had seen that one). We found out that since we are students and if we show up a few hours before the play started we would be able to get tickets for 20 pounds instead of the regular 55 pounds. Awesome. I’m so glad we went—it was a really great show! There was a really deep story behind all the singing and dancing, yet it was fun at the same time. It was set in Berlin around the beginning of WWII. I thought it was a wonderfully done show, and I’m really glad I decided to go. Well worth the 20 pounds, i.e. $40. (This doubling of dollars is really killing me!).
After the show we met some of the boys and grabbed a pint at the pub down the road—The Swan. It was a nice way to end the evening, then off to bed.
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