Day 21

Today we had class again. It is funny but since we only have class from Monday-Wednesday I barely feel like I am here for educational purposes- usually I just feel more like I am on vacation. It is hard to remember that I have homework and assignments sometime! But our program has actually been extremely easy compared to other programs I have heard about. After class we went back to the creperie down the street. This time I got a ham and cheese crepe, which surprisingly reminded me of a grilled cheese sandwich. Then I shared a toffee crepe with Robyn and Mandy. That place is really yummy. After wards we ha talked about going to Westminster Abbey because it is the last required sight we have to go to, but Robyn and I decided we didn’t really feel like doing much today. so we went home and read and watched movies and it was really relaxing. Robyn even took a short nap, which is very rare for her.

Later Robyn went to go make some toast, and I went with here because someone had just told us that there was actually another kitchen in our building than the one we knew about, and it was really close to our room. we found it, and were a little embarrassed that we have lived at Metrogate now for over 2 weeks and never knew there was a kitchen so close. And then while Robyn was toasting her toast I went outside the kitchen for a minute and Robyn locked me out. but I guess as a punishment for her mischievous shenanigans, she then couldn’t get the door unlocked again. Haha! So she was freaking out because she couldn’t get it open and I was trying to unlock it with my key from the other side, but it wouldn’t work. But eventually she got it open and all was well in the world again.

That night we went over to Hyde Park Gate- the other residence house for our program- because a man was meeting us to give a little fireside/talk about what it was like for him growing up in London during WWII. It was really cool because he talked about the Blitz and how he and his family had to go down in these little bomb shelters when the raid sirens went off, and how food was rationed and he hardly ever got any chocolate. Since he was really young I guess this was a big inconvenience for him. But I really enjoyed his talk, and then after Dr. Chapman asked if we could do one of our dialect surveys on him and it was awesome. We were reading him and his wife this list of words that are older British English and seeing if he recognized them. They didn’t for most of them, but they did say on some of them that they were probably country words, that “bumpkins” spoke.