Week 2

Hey everyone!
It's been another week and I have been having a fabulous time (of course!!!). I got a new phone, which cost me some money....but, I have to have a phone!! I have done Scottish barn dancing which is very tiring, but tons of fun and we went night punting on Tuesday night and I actually got to try and be the punter. Appparently, I seem to have a knack at it because I did really well. Hehe. But it was a lot of fun getting lost, on the river cam and going horizontal. It is harder than it looks!

I went to the Grafton Center on Wednesday which is a mall about 15 minutes walking from my hostel. It was nice, except a lot of shops close earlier than I am used to. Shops and stores usually close around 5 or 6pm here, which is a lot earlier than our stores back at home. Still, it was a nice walk and I got to see part of Cambridge I hadn't been yet.

My friend Rowena came to visit on Thursday and she stayed with me until Saturday. It was quite fun and we got to see the new Harry Potter movie together with people in PKP. It was the most awesome movie yet!! I was so happy afterward but unfortunately, had been getting sick since Wednesday and lost my voice finally that night. I haven't been able to speak properly since Thursday! It still hasn't come back and I'm writing on Monday. It's quite sad.

Friday, I showed her around and did some errands (buying a lot of medicine) and also we went to some good Indian food near the train station. Afterward, there was a party in our common room of our hostels, with our TA's/RA's (they definitely know how to party!), and went to bar to hang out. I love this atmosphere-it is very chill and so different from home! Saturday we did a day-trip to London which was fun and got to go to the National Art Museum and see paintings from Rembrandt, Michelangelo and da Vinci! It was stunning! My friends and I were also able to get some good Japanese food in Chinatown-London AND we got to see Othello play at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre (although we stood the entire time for 3 hours...!! Which wasn't as bad because the show was amazing!) I attended eveningsong at St. Paul's Cathedral (my favorite cathedral of all time!) and did a riverboat cruise down the Thames. It was a pretty tiring day and not being able to speak did pose some problems, but overall, the day was very satisfactory. I will be returning to London for the 3rd time this Friday for the Book release!!! (You know which BOOK!!)

School has been rough as I figured out my Economics II class is a corporate finance class and I haven't taken anything in that area and am kinda confused. I have a 8-10 page paper/midterm due on Thursday that I haven't started on and so I need to do some research! I think I will go to the library to study for the first time today after lunch. My architecture class is amazing! We got to check out the King's College Chapel which is absolutely gorgeous (I am thinking of doing my paper on it) and enjoy the men's choir one more time before they left.

Besides that and the coming back of rainy days after a beautiful weekend last weekend (which is probably why I got so sick!), it has been very enjoyable. We are having another formal dinner tonight, followed by kareoke (which I will probably not be partaking in) and our official PKP picture.

Hope everyone is enjoying their summer as much as I am!