Catching up

it has obviously been too long since i last posted some pictures so now i am just going to list events and post a few pictures ...


first day with tube pass (06/26/2010)

our professors gave us a like scavenger hunt around the city so that we could get to know the TUBE system better 

 stop 1:  Changing of the Guards 

So obviously i did not have a very good view... but it was  still cool and at least now i can say that i have "seen" the changing of the guards 


stop 2: harrods shopping area 

so i didn't shop but the buildings were cool...

stop 3 : trafalgar square/national gallery 

this was the end to the scavenger hunt and the best stop!  
    the national gallery is beautiful i foresee that i will be spending large amounts of time there 


next up: i went home and took a short nap... 


Lizzie and i walked around near our house looking for a "safe" pub to go and watch the US Ghana "football" game.
Photos taken while wondering around looking 
for a pub  

 mission accomplished not too far away we found a good pub and went in to take a seat 

we walked in and started to watch the game (i was pretty much freaking out because there were a bunch of huge black guys there watching us) so they invited us to sit down and apprehensively we agreed (their table was right in front of the big screen and they seemed nice so we just sat down with them) they explained to us that they were ghana fans (oh great we are sitting with a bunch of BIG ghana fans who are drinking... and i am some little scrawny girl) we got to know them better and they were extremely nice they offered to buy us drinks and when we told them that we don't drink they immediately asked us if we were mormons (shocked and surprised i had no idea that they even knew what the term "mormon" meant) we told them that we were and they were super excited because we were the first mormons they had ever met  we set a couple false rumors straight and then the rest of the night they were watching out for us  One of the guys named ben was super nice and made sure that no one tried to buy us an alcoholic drink etc. because he was fairly familiar with our religion 

to make a long story short... ok shorter the us LOST and it was crazy there they were so excited! but they were extremely nice and it was a great experience 

LESSON LEARNED : be safe, have fun, try new things, and step SLIGHTLY out of comfort zone, BUT if you feel uncomfortable LEave 

Luckily i felt comfortable and was with good people