A rainy day in London town

I've now been in London for about 2 and a half days. This is probably at least one of my favorite places I've ever been to, if not my favorite.

I guess I should finish up on Denmark before I start with London though. lol Copenhagen is very much like NYC, and, while I enjoy NYC, it definitely was not what I expected out of Copenhagen so I was a bit disappointed and not really a fan. The castles we went to were really cool and pretty. One has been turned into a museum now and was gorgeous and really cool. The other one was funny because it's still in use and they made us wear the little shoe cover things that are kind of like shower caps on our feet in order to go in. We got a bit of rain in Denmark, but that helped to cool off the temps a bit so we didn't really complain. lol I think that about covers all there is for Denmark.

On to London. My group got here around 1 or so on Wednesday so we had a bit more time than the others before we had to meet up for dinner and our meeting. Mostly, we just went and acquired our phones so that we had a contact method (I think most people were just secretly dying from being cut off from their cells lol). One of the girls managed to get the guy that worked there to say both "y'all" and "awesome" which was hysterical.That was about all there was to the first day other than unpacking.

Yesterday Dr. Weaver (co-director and psych prof) took a bunch of us on a walking tour around London to show us how to use the tube and buses and give us our bearings a little bit. It was really nice and helpful. We lost most of the group after lunch, but there were a few of us who stuck it out for the whole time. Today we and Dr. Weaver went by Westminster Abbey, Parliament and Big Ben, then walked down the south bank of the Thames past the London Eye and St. Pauls and a few other places. We had a very small group, just my usual little travel group, Dr. Weaver, and Dr. DG (the other psych prof) and his wife and kids, which was really nice because we could go a bit slower/faster and play things by ear a bit more than we could when we had the whole big group. Tomorrow we're off to Cardiff in Wales for the day so I should have some good stories and pics to share.

Class is going well, I seem to be the only person that's actually looked at any of this stuff before going to class, much less done any of the homework ahead of time, so I'm kind of the main talker. My class has 9 boys and 2 girls, so it gets pretty interesting. lol

The London weather is wonderful, but a bit chilly at times because of the winds. It drizzles off and on alot, but not enough to bother messing with an umbrella. Like I said, I could totally live here quite happily.

Anyway, that's all the news from across the pond for now.

Adieu,

Julianna

"Winds in the east, mist comin' in, like somethin' is brewin' and 'bout to begin..."