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Yesterday wasn't too eventful. School is sucky now that we have our group presentation to work on. Boo. I have a group presentation, a 1500 word essay on the group presentation and an essay test next week for our final. It blows, to say the least. But she's being lenient about most sourcing stuff and whatnot. I hope I do well!
Then after class the girls in my group and I went to the library to get books for our presentation and OMG the library sucks. First of all I couldn't figure out how to get to the library because when you go pass the gate, the library is on the floor lower than what we were on but I couldn't find stairs or an elevator and once I found them we didn't know which floor and I wanted to find a computer to look up books on the library database but the 3rd floor had computers but they were closed and OMG sooo annoying. We finally did it, after I was bitching and moaning and I got 5 books out. Erin got nothing so she's mooching off of me. >__> Equally annoying she borrowed the one book from me that I really wanted to use first. Whatever. Oh, and even better I had to carry all five books home. She didn't even offer assistance. My arms were so tired because it was raining so I had my heavy purse with my school stuff in it, five hardbound books and my umbrella. Ugh.
I "researched" a little after I got back and then played around on the computer and then met up for a Jack the Ripper walk with our tour guide Steve. It was raining of course and I offered my umbrella to another girl because she had nothing and I was wearing my "waterproof" coat as they say. So I was a little wet, and tired and really really hungry. Because we were having Indian food for dinner I didn't really have a huge lunch and I was starving by the time we started the walk. But Steve was very interesting and much more fun than our teacher's guide. But his was a little more exaggerated and less factual than our teacher's was. Which is stand to prove that the story has been so manipulated and warped over the ages. I mean, it did happen around 1888 soooo there's been room for some details to be added in.
The Indian restaurant was amazing! It was on Brick Lane which is in the East End which was near where the murders took place. And it wasn't the most friendly place in town. I mean, it wasn't dangerous but I definately won't want to be there all by myself late one Saturday night! Well, that aside, Brick lane is stuffed with Indian and Middle Eastern food. And there were people standing outside the restaurants trying to coax us into eating there. But we got to our restaurant and it was so nice! They put balloons around our table and offered 20% discount and even gave us a first round of drinks free. The food was amazing and they gave us a plethora of bread and rice to go with our meals. I got chicken with a coconut and honey sauce which was amazing but a little too coconutty for my tastes, but I still liked it. It sucked when the bill came around and my was 15 pounds D: But they were really friendly and did a great job serving us. Oh well.....
On the tubes home, there was this guy sitting across from us that looked like he had Peter Parker glasses (they were black nerdy glasses with square black frames, totally unattractive) and he started hitting on one of the women with us. He looked a lot better without the glasses, to be sure.
Today I have no idea what is going on! I thought we were going to a museum but then I'm not really sure. I am thinking I'll go to Stonehenge once they tell me a price. I'm not going if it's more than like 20 pounds. that's just ridiculous because you can't even get close to the danm rocks! We'll see what happens. I also really want to go to Portobello Road, back to Camden Town and I still need souveneirs for the family!!! Ahh!
Then after class the girls in my group and I went to the library to get books for our presentation and OMG the library sucks. First of all I couldn't figure out how to get to the library because when you go pass the gate, the library is on the floor lower than what we were on but I couldn't find stairs or an elevator and once I found them we didn't know which floor and I wanted to find a computer to look up books on the library database but the 3rd floor had computers but they were closed and OMG sooo annoying. We finally did it, after I was bitching and moaning and I got 5 books out. Erin got nothing so she's mooching off of me. >__> Equally annoying she borrowed the one book from me that I really wanted to use first. Whatever. Oh, and even better I had to carry all five books home. She didn't even offer assistance. My arms were so tired because it was raining so I had my heavy purse with my school stuff in it, five hardbound books and my umbrella. Ugh.
I "researched" a little after I got back and then played around on the computer and then met up for a Jack the Ripper walk with our tour guide Steve. It was raining of course and I offered my umbrella to another girl because she had nothing and I was wearing my "waterproof" coat as they say. So I was a little wet, and tired and really really hungry. Because we were having Indian food for dinner I didn't really have a huge lunch and I was starving by the time we started the walk. But Steve was very interesting and much more fun than our teacher's guide. But his was a little more exaggerated and less factual than our teacher's was. Which is stand to prove that the story has been so manipulated and warped over the ages. I mean, it did happen around 1888 soooo there's been room for some details to be added in.
The Indian restaurant was amazing! It was on Brick Lane which is in the East End which was near where the murders took place. And it wasn't the most friendly place in town. I mean, it wasn't dangerous but I definately won't want to be there all by myself late one Saturday night! Well, that aside, Brick lane is stuffed with Indian and Middle Eastern food. And there were people standing outside the restaurants trying to coax us into eating there. But we got to our restaurant and it was so nice! They put balloons around our table and offered 20% discount and even gave us a first round of drinks free. The food was amazing and they gave us a plethora of bread and rice to go with our meals. I got chicken with a coconut and honey sauce which was amazing but a little too coconutty for my tastes, but I still liked it. It sucked when the bill came around and my was 15 pounds D: But they were really friendly and did a great job serving us. Oh well.....
On the tubes home, there was this guy sitting across from us that looked like he had Peter Parker glasses (they were black nerdy glasses with square black frames, totally unattractive) and he started hitting on one of the women with us. He looked a lot better without the glasses, to be sure.
Today I have no idea what is going on! I thought we were going to a museum but then I'm not really sure. I am thinking I'll go to Stonehenge once they tell me a price. I'm not going if it's more than like 20 pounds. that's just ridiculous because you can't even get close to the danm rocks! We'll see what happens. I also really want to go to Portobello Road, back to Camden Town and I still need souveneirs for the family!!! Ahh!