sunburn+ england... who would've thought?!

Well, as i mentioned in my last post I had quite an eventful weekend planned, and its still only saturday! Thursday night was the bartender of the campus pub, The HEadless Drummer, Ian's birthday so that was quite an event. I am currently on the "Wall of Youth" because Im still 17 though.. haha. Friday, me and Alison (my neighbour) woke up at 6 in the morning, to try and guarantee one of the extra spots on a field study to london- So we were the first people to breakfast, and no one showed up the entire time we were eating. We got worried that the buses has already arrived or something, so we left only to find about 25 starving students waiting outside. None of them had bothered to try the door, the just assumed it was locked! Anyways, we ended up getting seats on the bus thank goodness. When we arrived, we went to St. Paul's Cathedral, which is absolutely BEAUTIFUL. it was completely worth paying the entrance fee. Every inch of that building is covered with intricate and elaborate carving or mosaics or painting or sculpture. We went to the crypt and up the Whispering Gallery. You can stand across the balcony of the Dome and whisper, and people an hear you from across 32 m. We tested this out, it worked! So then we climbed up to the very top, so we were on top of the dome (523 spiral steps!) and the view was unreal. We could see all of london. After catching our breath, we trekked back down and found some lunch (it was so nice to eat REAL food for once!). From there we made our way to the British Museum. We were so proud that we didn't get lost on the tube, we didn't even have to ask for help, even though we had to stare at the tube map for probably about 15 minutes. But nevermind, we figured it out. Once we were in the British museum, which is also an amazingly beautiful building, we headed up to the Egyptian room and we also looked at the African and Japan and Money rooms. The latter was quite a task to find, we got lost numerous times. There was a really cool exhibit on the lifespan of a person in relation to the amount of pills they take. The average human takes 14,000 pills in a lifetime, pretty crazy. After walking for what seemed like forever, we found a bank machine(YAY!) and got on the bus to go home where i enjoyed a much needed nap. Today, I had a geography field study. We went to Hope Gap, and hiked down to the beach which looks across at the Seven Sisters chalk cliffs. It was soo cool. We had to look at specific areas and the differences in the life, which was slightly tedious but pretty cool. It was like a beach, but instead of sand, it was all jagged rock. Luckily, and I'm not sure how, no one fell. From Here we went to Cuckmere valley, a man-made river that has a built in dike separating it. Here we took more samples, and got to do a Pooh Stick test (For all you Winnie the Pooh fans you'll know this one!) We were so lucky to have such beautiful weather, but i guess the wind was deceiving because now I have a sunburn on not only my face, but a bit on my arms, even though i was wearing a long sleeve shirt- Who would've thought? 

Miss you all lots. I was reminded of home today when we walked past some Lily of the Valley and it smelled like home.