So sometimes I wonder whether dancing would be more fun if I was actually good at it? Like dance party dancing I mean…of course partner dancing would be more fun if I was better at it. But sometimes I think it would be awesome to be like a really baller dancer. However, I think I’ve just decided that I like it that the best I can do is dance like an idiot.
So I also just realized that on this blog, about 80% of my paragraphs start with the word “so”. I’m ok with that though and I’m about to do it again.
So yesterday I shaved for the first time on this trip. I really should have taken a picture of it before I shaved though because it was getting pretty legit. I mean it was definitely undeniable that I had facial hair. And I was pretty happy about the thickness that it came in with. I’ve always thought I probably had that really crusty, nasty facial hair that is no good but I feel like this was just pretty typical. I have no idea whether it looked good or not though cause to me, it just looked really weird. But anyways I was planning on just letting it keep coming until laura got here so that I could see her reaction but it was starting to itch just a bit. Normally, I would be perfectly cool with just dealing with the itching for a few days but considering that I was already sick and annoyed with that, I just decided that I didn’t have what it took right now to deal with the itching. Thus, in a moment of instant-gratification, I shaved it off. And I mean it’s not like it was a Gandalf beard or anything. But it was just kinda a scruffiness…yeah but I didn’t take a good picture of it before it left so…sorry…
As far as being sick, I’m really only dealing with one symptom significantly at this point. I mean my throat is still a little coughy (not a word) and my nose is still getting it’s sniffle on a bit. But really, other than that, the only real problem we have now is that I’ve got an ungodly amount of sinus pressure. I can feel it behind my cheekbones and in my forehead. It’s annoying cause whenever I walk, i can feel each step in the nerves in my teeth. And after I shower, when I shake my head to get the water out of my hair, it’s all kinds of painful all over my head. BUT I expect it to pass soon and I think I’m on the way to being all good. Either way, it’s beyond the point where it’s getting in my way so that’s the thing that really matters.
SO, I am now in London. I was very happy to leave Glasgow where I could barely understand anyone. Seriously, the accent in Glasgow was really really thick and hard to understand. I would have to have the people at cash registers repeat things like 3 times cause I just couldn’t figure out what the heck they were saying. It was bad. But here in London, now everyone just sounds like Greg Smith so it’s all good. And the train I took here was awesome. It had wifi AND power outlets for my computer. BALLER.
So it was about 24 seconds after I got off the train that I heard my first Brit say “shall we grab a spot of tea?” haHAH! That was always the thing that me and the sibs used to try to say in a british accent back in the day and here I am, in London for half a minute and I’ve already heard it correctly pronounced!! It made me happy.
So I took the subway to the station closest to my hostel from the train station. Here is a picture of me loving the “tube” in London. (although this is actually much later in the day when I went back out)
On my walk from the tube station to my hostel, I saw SO MANY nice cars. Like I started counting Ferrari’s and quit when I hit 10 after like 2 minutes. It was nuts. I finally figured out why though when I realized that my hostel is right in the middle of the “Embassy District” where all the foreign embassies are located. Thus, there were a bunch of rich diplomats living in the area. I didn’t see the US embassy on my way to the hostel but I plan on visiting it tomorrow. I DID see the german one though and I noticed that, of the roughly 40 cars in their parking lot, all but ONE of them were german made (BMW, Mercedes, Porche, Audi). Then there was the lonely single Ford Taurus. And I couldn’t help but think about how much hate that guy must get from everyone else. I mean if I worked in that embassy, there is no way I would let myself be the one guy not driving a german car. And then, to pick an AMERICAN car. Bold move.So after taking a shower and settling in to my hostel, I decided to make use of my “all day tube pass” and go back out to see some stuff. So I went back to the tube station closest to my hostel and walked up to the huge map showing all the tubes in London and all their stops. I looked for a station name that sounded like something I recognized and finally found a station called “Westminister”. I’d heard that one so I took a couple tubes to get there. As I walked up out of the station, Big Ben was standing there directly in front of me about 30 yards in all his glory. He looked BEAUTIFUL. MAJESTIC. My first reaction was, of course to read the time on his giant hands. The thing that I thought was very ironic is that the first thing I did after finding that his hands indicated a time of 7:35 was to pull out my iphone and see if that was the “correct” time. I just challenged probably the greatest clock in the entire world. Like literally there is no clock in this world more famous than Big Ben except maybe the Sun if that even counts. And here I am challenging it. Like, if the two times HAD been different, I don’t even know what that would have meant. I guess it would have meant my phone was screwed up because Big Ben is definitely not wrong. I mean come on. What was I thinking?
Anyways, I then proceeded to turn on come coldplay really loud in my ears and walk around London like I was in a movie or something. It was awesome. I wanted to turn on the beatles just because I’m in London and everything…but I didn’t have them on my phone so I had to settle for Coldplay. AKA I did NOT settle at all because coldplay is awesome. I was listening to their first two cds and it reminded me again why I love them so much. Just forget that their most recent cds have even come out if you have to.
Ok I could keep going but I’m tired and I’m trying to get better so I’m going to go to bed. Here are the two other pictures I took today though. They are pretty much pointless and are pretty pathetic considering all the things I saw today that I SHOULD have taken pictures of. But oh well…
This was weird. The sky was a crazy color of almost pink...but yeah i'm not really even sure what this thing is. I just know that it's a lot bigger than it looks like it is in that picture and there are some huge lion statues at the bottom of it that I sat on.
This was some protest going on. I really wanted to remember what they were chanting cause it was hilarious...however, try as I might, I cannot remember. Oh well, maybe it will come to me later.OK I'm off to bed! Nighty-night!
Christian
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