Lions, TigerTigers and Bears!

Almost two weeks of class down. So far my classes are fairly interesting, but very overwhelming. Everyone in my classes are in that particular major, it's not so bad for the first year courses but in my two upper level courses I feel very behind. They do things very differently, only meeting for class once a week, but that class is divided into a seminar and lecture. The seminars tend to be a bit more interesting due to the fact they're much more interactive and you have an opportunity to speak up. In each class there's no class participation, no real homework other then doing readings, just an essay due halfway through the semester (which is only 4 weeks away!) and an exam at the end of the semester, which is probably why I feel so overwhelmed. Hopefully it isn't as bad as it seems, and my lack of "proper english" as Rachel's professor would like to call American English, doesn't effect my grade too much.

My creative writing in London course is my favorite course because it's only a seminar. 3 hours long, but still much more interesting then being talked to for 1-2 hours. Our professor is really forcing us to get out into London and write about our surroundings. Truly experience London. This weeks assignment is to walk up to a random Londoner and interview them...not something I would willingly do, so we'll see how that turns out. (Sidenote: if you want to read any of my creative writings, which I will be typing up my writings for class there soon, you can check out my other blog).

Last Wednesday we got to go on a boat tour down the River Thames. It was wonderful and beautiful. Seeing all of the iconic landmarks from this historic river was unreal. Also got to meet some great new people.

This past weekend was another weekend of exploring the city (there's just so much to do!) Friday night was not very exciting, but Saturday was a very long, very hot day. Our initial plan was to go to the zoo. We mixed up our parks though and ended up going to Hyde Park...the zoo is at Regent Park. This turned out being a great mistake though because it was such a beautiful day why not walk around the park a little bit? We went to the Princess Diana memorial fountain and it turns out, you can play in the fountain. It was the perfect day to go, 80 degrees out, although the water was freezing. There were tons of children and their parents enjoying this unseasonably warm weather in this beautiful part of Kensington Gardens.

After we went to the fountain it was back onto the tube and off to the zoo. The London zoo was nice, but small. Not exactly what I expected but of course we needed to go see the Reptile house where Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone filmed the snake scene.

It also had a lot of very random statues that we took full advantage of picture opportunities. It was nice, but I probably wouldn't go back.

That night we finally ventured to our first club.
Greatest. Experience. Of. My. Life.
It definitely wasn't what I expect when I think of a club. America's clubs feel much, dirtier. We went to one called Tiger Tiger and we had the time of our lives. Not because we were dancing to popular music, oh no. Rachel and I found the 70-80's light up disco floor. It was amazing. Taught the Brit's how to do the Hand Jive, danced to Footloose and belted I will survive. My kind of place.

This weekend we're going back to Tiger Tiger and I cannot wait (I'll also try to get pictures there because you just need to see this place to believe it).