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Amy in London
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Our U.S. College Student Settles into Life in London
Amy enjoys a great
view from the top of St. Mary's, the parties at the pub.
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PubClub's
London City & Bar Guide
By
Amy Jones, Cal State-Fullerton Senior
Hello from the great city of London!
We are having a chilly week and let me tell you, scarves and gloves
are my new best friends. It is even supposed to get to -5 degrees C
this week! Crazy...it might even snow.
So here I am, in the warm computer lab, taking my sweet time to tell
you all what I have been up to. So here we go!!!
TUESDAY-TATE BRITAIN
On Tuesday morning my art class went to the Tate Britain Museum.
The Tate Galleries are a group of 5 different museums, each focusing
on a certain time period and movement. The Tate Britain has tons of
pre-raphealite and impressionist work. There are some amazing pieces
there by Rothko and other great artists like Rembrandt and Rubens.
GLOBAL BATTLE OF THE BANDS
Bands from all over Europe competed for £10,000 – and were were
there!
At night we went to the Global Battle of the Bands at the Mean Fiddler.
It was a competition between 14 bands from all across Europe who were
competing for £10,000 and the championship title. It was crazy to see
bands from Spain, the Netherlands, Wales, Ireland, France, Scotland,
etc all playing together. The band from Spain won but we all thought
that this 2-man band from Scotland called MexEcho should have won. They
were amazing.
When we got home it was rather late but I could not sleep so I ended
up watching Bush's State of the Union Address. It was crazy watching
that over here because so many people hate Bush over here. There are
signs everywhere about taking Bush down and Stop Bush and stuff like
that. It is really an amazing situation.
WEDNESDAY
During the day I went out to lunch at this restaurant called Texas
Lone Star. It is supposed to be an American style restaurant but
it wasn't really all that great. But, it still gave a little feeling
of home. At night we had a couple of friends over to our flat and we
just hung out and had a mellow night in. It was cool...I am really starting
to get comfortable with all of the different people in the program and
am making some good friends.
THURSDA
In the morning I learned the wonderful art of hand washing laundry.
Over here it costs 5 pounds to do one small load (which is roughly $10
USD). So I spent an hour and a half washing all of my clothes. Fun times
for sure.
LORD LEIGHTON'S HOUSE
After that I went to Lord Leighton's House. He is a famous artist from
the 19th century and there is a lot of his work on exhibition there.
Architecturally, the house is beautiful as well. After class I chilled
at home and got some packing done because I had to be up at 4am on Friday
to leave for Amsterdam.
Amy Jones is a Cal State-Fullerton student on an exchange program
in London. She arrived in January and is filing regular reports for
PubClub.com.
 Amy
Goes to Amsterdam!
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