Walking In London

Nothing too exciting has been going on the past few days. We had a lazy Sunday hanging around the flat that provided some much needed chill time. However we did start researching Paris trips and luckily found one done through a group that was reasonably priced and has openings. So on Monday the five of us that are going (Kinsey, Katie, Katie, Sam and me) went to the tour company and booked our trip. We're going March 6-8 and can't be more excited, so Paris better look out!

After we booked our trip and did some grocery shopping I wanted to go and find my practicum school (as part of our program we are assigned to a London school and spend some time there observing etc.) As many of you know, I'm not that good with maps but since we've been here I've learned that knowing how to read a map is sort of a necessity so its something I've been working on. Anyways, it was a nice day and I had some free time so I looked at the map (with some help from my friend Zane) and figured that it wouldn't be all that hard to walk. I started off feeling good; I had my iPod in and was looking forward to some alone time. But one hour later I still felt no closer to where I needed to be than when we started, and my free time was dwindling. I ended up making it very close to my school (a few streets down and I would have been there) but turned around to get back to our classroom building in time for our education seminar. While I didn't actually find my school it was a very nice walk; I saw Regents Park, found some really cool looking restaurants, walked right past King's Cross Station (I was tempted to go to Hogwarts, but decided to leave that for another day) and I had a pleasant afternoon to myself.

But other than that we've just been settling in to a routine with classes. Last night Zane and I wanted to try walking from our classroom building to our flats (after my previous walking adventure I"m not sure why I did this) and it took us an hour, so we're not going to be doing that anymore. I made tacos for dinner and then a bunch of us watched "She's the Man" to review Shakespeare's "12th Night" for our theater class today. Oh yeah and I also uploaded some pictures from this weekend
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2004792&id=1401300102&l=eb925 theres the link if you wanna check em out.