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This is long overdue I know, I've just not been in the mood to blog at all. Which means this will be a long one, sorry. I'm gonna break it down by days to make it easier for us all.

Thursday: I had to go to work by myself because Claire got the day off in order to meet her parents at the airport and spend the day with them. So I didn't do too much at work, it's still very calm. I made some phone calls to get prices and photos for our new products page, which basically is a page in which we introduce new products to the readers which they can sell as retail items in their salon/spa or for them to use in their treatments. After work I had to stop at Carphone Warehouse to get a new battery for my phone because it wouldn't hold a charge and then I went to the grocery store. Claire's parents invited me and all of my flatmates out to see The Hangover with them. It was absolutely hilarious. Also seeing a movie here is a completely different experience. You have assigned seats and they are much more comfortable and the theaters are much larger. More on this a bit later.

Friday: In our BLC class we discussed music, which was pretty interesting. We got to listen to clips of American music vs. British music at the same time. After class I was completely exauhsted and my flatmates were going to go out shopping, which I wasn't in the mood for so I went home and took a nap until we were supposed to meet Claire and her parents at Ping Pong for dinner. It was just as excellent as last time (even though I almost fainted! Claire started talking about dental surgery that her sister had and I just don't do well with stories about pain and blood! She had to support me to the bathroom and bring me some water!). Afterwards Linden and I went to see Transformers 2 with Claire and her parents. The theater we went to was amazing, it looked like it should have been for a play not a movie. It was absolutley ridiculous. However the movie was not as great as I was hoping, too much robot fighting...

Saturday: I went out to Portobello Market again with Linden, Kristin and Amanda this time with the intention of shopping instead of just looking. Last time they had some really cute dresses that we wanted to find and I wanted to see if that store had those shoes in my size yet! So we found some dresses and I got my shoes, I even found a cool gift for my mum and an even cooler one for my dad. After a long day at the market I went home to get ready for The King and I. I went with Kristin and Claire and her parents and it was at the Royal Albert Hall. First off the theater is absolutely huge and so beautiful. Second the play was amazing, the King was played by Daniel Dae Kim who plays Jin on my favorite TV show LOST and he was absolutely supurb. I laughed so hard in parts and nearly cried in others. I loved it.

Sunday: Linden and I had an interesting trip this weekend while trying to find Jane Austen’s house museum. We took an hour and a half train ride out to Alton, and we knew that the museum was about a mile from the station so we planned on just walking there. When we asked the guy at the ticket counter for directions he told us to go outside the train station and there would be a little hut basically where a taxi company was and that if we couldn’t get a taxi there, he would drive us himself. We found that to be an awkward offer, so we walked to the taxi hut and asked the guy if we could get a taxi. Well, apparently it’s a small enough town that on a Sunday they only have one taxi and it was busy doing local routes but he kindly offered us walking directions and told us that we could call him if it started to rain (b/c it really looked like rain). His directions: walk straight through town and just keep going till the shops end, then you know you’re out of town but just keep walking straight and they’ll be a bridge with a steam train going over it and underneath they’ll be an underpass, so take the underpass. Once you go through you’ll be in Chawton and it’s such a small town that the museum is right in the center of town and you’ll be sure to see it.

Not so easy. We walked straight through town just fine, but then we got to a round about and could no longer go straight but there was a sign for the museum pointing down a freeway with no sidewalk. Not having a death wish we decided to walk around and maybe find another route. After going down a road that was clearly wrong Linden called the taxi driver who gave her the same directions again and I asked this family if they knew where it was. The gave us similar directions, and we followed them but still couldn’t find it so we walked down another random road but turned around and wound up back in the round about. So then were standing there and this car drives by and the woman is rolling down the window and I recognized her as the woman I asked for directions and she shouts “it’s down that road!” So thanks to her we found it!

By the time we were on our way back to the train we were starving, but this place was like a ghost town! Nothing was open. Finally we found a Costa Coffee which is a chain here and it was open, so we got some sandwiches and chips and headed back to the train. Well, while I was ordering I broke a cookie jar! It was right on the edge of the counter and I was just out of it enough because it was nearly 5 and I hadn't eaten since early that morning that I didn't really notice it and knocked it right off! I was so embarassed.

Monday: Another very uneventful day at work. We had a meeting with Jenni about how we thought things were going so far and were assigned to try to think of a blog to write for the website and that's about it. At class we had a guest speaker who leads the Mizzou Brussels program, which is where the European Union politics happen so he told us about the EU and then we watched a debate between someone who thinks that Britian should be in the EU and someone who does not. Afterwards we had a social with some of the students in the Brussels program at a pub near our flat called The Prince of Teck. There was free food which was really good, but all free food is when you're a poor college student studying abroad!

Tuesday: Worked all day again and really didn't do much. Later in the evening Claire C., Claire H. and Linden and I went to Hyde Park and actually walked around and explored. We found the Peter Pan statue, and the Princess Diana memorial, and a whole lot of birds. It's a huge, beautiful park that we could spend hours upon hours in and still not see everything.

Today (Finally!!!!): So far today all I've done was go to work. I went by myself because Claire is working on Thursday to make up for not working last Thursday and I don't have to go in tomorrow. It was a lot of doing nothing again today, but i decided to work on my blog. I was going to try and get a beauty treatment like a pedicure, haircut or spray tan (because they are big into that here compared to the states) and explain what I liked/thought about it in order to give the owners of the salons/spas advice. However since I had nothing to do today I decided to wait and do that for a later blog, and choose to write a blog about how these business owners could benefit from using Twitter because it was something useful to them and something I could write today. Not sure what we'll be doing this evening!

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