A nice easy day.

This morning we had British Life and Culture. We talked a lot about the monarchy and the Queen's relationship with the people. It was really interesting to talk about. One of my favorite things about Professor Fosdal is a joke that he uses almost every class. He will begin talking about the monarchy and say "America, you could have had this. But, you decided to go at it alone. You preferred your Richard Nixon and George Bush. Just remember, you had your chance to stay." He's said the joke at least 4 times and I still chuckle. Also, he addresses the group of us as "America" which means he walks in every morning and welcomes us with a big "Good Morning America." However, 3 of us aren't American so it is more like "Good Morning America....and Jamaica....and India." And that doesn't have as nice of a ring to it.

My second class of the day was British Crime Fiction but, it was cancelled because Christine wasn't feeling well. So, my whole afternoon was free. First, I just hung out for a bit. Then, Mallory and I went to Fait Maison for tea. I don't usually like tea but I thought I would give it a try. I had mint tea with a pastry with custard in it. It was delicious! I am hoping that means I will start liking more tea. I have always liked the idea of tea, but the taste never rubbed me the right way. But, who knows? That could all be changing!! Mallory and I had a really nice life chat while we had tea. I am really enjoying living with her and we are so much more similar than I expected. We went back to our room (because it looked like it was going to rain) and watched Peter Pan. After watching the play on Monday a bunch of us have had the desire to watch the old Disney cartoon. For the rest of the afternoon I lounged around and didn't do much.

Tomorrow I only have class in the afternoon (and we are going to Parliament, yay!) so I am planning on walking over to the Natural History Museum for the morning. I love living this close to free museums! I'm hoping that tomorrow will be very interesting so I'll have a bit more to write!!

JessLynn