June 2008
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May 2008
4 posts
Alan's 21st
Yesterday I woke up, went to class, and started looking for something to do in London. At home my friends and I usually sit around staring at walls, watching paint dry, or watching movies until someone figures out something to do. That’s not a diss on all my friends at home, but there is not all that much to do in good old Homewood, Illinios (after you’ve lived there for 20 years). In...
Arrival
Once the group got through customs we loaded on two coach busses set for the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. I talked to a few people on the bus, most of them only here for the next two weeks. I’ll be sad to see some of them go, but my entire building is full with people staying for the entire summer. When we arrived on Knaresborough Place and stepped off the bus it was raining....
The Flight
Well, if you didn’t know, I flew Air India to London on Saturday. That’s right, Air India, the one that had a plane blown up by a suitcase bomb in 1985. That was over twenty years ago and I really didn’t mind too much, but its funny to think about, a university so concerned with safety and they send us on Air India with a final destination in Bombay. The flight was actually awesome; a...