Today, I fell in love with paper. After class, we went to this café/paper store that makes its own paper. It was so beautiful. I feel really silly about freaking out over a piece of paper, but the pages were so delicate! They had intricate designs, textures and even leaves and flowers pressed into the pages. It was absolutely fantastic.
Lauren and I broke off from the group when we decided we were dangerously close to wanting to buy random pieces of paper that would serve us absolutely no purpose and went to the grocery store. We bought the food that we needed to tide us over until our next food allowance, and I was brave and bought a meat and potato pasty pie. This is apparently a pretty British food. It was delicious! Basically it was like a pot pie with just beef and potatoes, but it was fantastic.
At 2:00 that afternoon, our group set off to go visit the British Museum for the first time. We got to see the Rosetta Stone and the artifacts the British had recovered from the Parthenon in Greece. The sculptures and pieces from Greece were amazing. I’m going to do a very poor job of trying to explain this, but the pieces felt like they were actually moving. The fluidity being their motions, despite the rigidity of the stone, was really just captivating. I think I could have looked at those pieces for a really long time. That, and the fact that I was looking at something over three thousand years old really got to me. The best part is secretly touching something from the exhibit. You’re not supposed to, but the temptation to touch a part of history, just a rock or a stone that so many other countless people have touched was too much for me sometimes. But we should keep that in the cone of silence…I don’t want the Royal Guard after me.
We only caught a glimpse of a tiny portion of the British Museum. It’s completely massive, and I’ll have to go back several times to be able to see everything that it has to offer. Lucky for me, it’s free.
After the museum, Lauren, Brad and I went to Oxford Circus where a lot of the shopping is. If you are ever in London, make a point to go to Primark. It is like a combination the Target clothing department and the Forever 21 of London. There are tons of really cute clothes for really good prices. For example, I got a skirt for 5 quid. That’s London speak for 5 bucks. It was amazing. I also got a shirt, which I’m extremely excited about. And then I bought a coffee mug that has a map of the Tube system on it. So I went a little crazy today. But, these are the first things I’ve bought except for post cards, so I was actually pretty proud of myself.
We got back to the flat and had dinner pretty quickly. Then Lauren and I showed the guys how to get on the roof. It was completely dark by this time, so we figured we had a lesser chance of getting caught. The city is really pretty at night, even though you can’t see much of it from our flat. I love sitting out on the ledge.
When we came back in (it gets pretty chilly at night), we watched a classic movie we had rented from the library. The librarian was really excited when we checked it out, and even started quoting his favorite lines from the movie. What movie was this? Gladiator. So good. So epic. Absolutely fantastic. It was the perfect end to a really long day of walking around shopping in London.
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