International House (No Facs) London

... believe the size and the amount of artifacts, especially since it was free to get in! We saw the Rosetta Stone, a massive Easter Island head, many beautiful Greco Roman sculptures, and much much more. We wandered slowly back to our hotel room and realized we were still hungry. Mike spotted a Mediterranean café and we shared a Lebanese platter with falafel, taboulah, pita bread, hummus spread, Mediterranean salad, and finished it off ...

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... too cute!

I also was getting all confused when I crossed the street coz it says look right when you walk onto the crossing, and then look left on the other side - so I've been walking across these intersections looking right, then getting to the other side and looking left. Well the reason it says look left on the other side i worked out today, is for the people crossing from the other direction.... Ohhhhhhh! Now I'm ...

... Park and visited Queen Mary's Garden which is full of pretty much every rose you could ever imagine and it smells simply amazing.  We at lunch in the shade of the trees and watched a French family playing football with their three children. After lunch we decided to make our way down through Hyde Park and to the giant department store Harrods.  We passed through Marble Arch which is at the entrance to Hyde Park, but we learned was originally the entrance to ...

... effectively. After watching a few more videos about the history of the bridge and playing a few interactive games we exited through the gift shop. We walked up the stairs and right across the bridge and headed back to the tube station. After eventually finding out way back to the tube station, we took the escalators as far down as they could go the catch the tube to Piccadilly Circus. We headed upstairs when we disembarked the train and back out into the rain ...

... were broken up when it was taken over by the great and glorious Knights of Malta. It was also a place where people would come to find lawyers to handle their cases. (slightly reminicent of the moneychangers in the temple.) Finally we entered the Royal Courts of Justice where I was permited to sit in on 2 cases up on appeal. One I arrived in time for the Judges to quash sentences in what appeared to be a ...

... quirky but very nice and Kris and I are surviving our first month living together - it is definitely a test as it is just one room! Kris has been out on interviews every single day. He is working hard for the money for sure! And they are putting him through the ringer, having him prepare case studies for presentations and preparing crazy questions. He has one offer so far but of course is weighing all his options. With me ...

... and went to arrivals looking for someone from my hostel holding my name up. I eventually spotted a short middle-aged man holding a piece of cardboard that seemed to have just been ripped off from a box with the name “Sonia Carya” scribbled on it. My first name correct, but the surname...well, almost there. After asking and confirming he was from Flying Dogs Backpackers Hostel, we made our way to the taxi. My South American adventures had finally begun.

... hung out for awhile and took a little nap (still trying to get over the jet lag) and then Isaac went to go on a pub crawl. The hostel served dinner and in line I met this guy from California who was studding abroad. We ended up eating together and having a really nice conversation. People in hostels become friends immediately because they are usually on the same track: poor but interested. We were going out to see the town and ...

... you advance book times to speak to trainers with specific skills to help you with whatever you needed...... all for free. There was a real buzz about the place which said "cool kids own Macs" - and you just wanted to buy one and be part of it all. Around lunchtime, we grabbed parma ham, feta and rocket baps (outstanding) at the Borough Food Market which is under London Bridge and changed to the tourist track along the banks of the Thames. All up we must have walked ...