June 14, Day 23

I feel like my hair has gotten really long. That's something I've noticed over the month of being overseas. It's been fun to watch my hair grow. It probably helps that I don't have curly hair anymore.. so with my hair being straight all the time no matter what I do definitely makes it look longer than it may have looked in the past.

I slept so well. I was so happy. So glad to be in a new room. I don't really have a problem with snoring as long as I can find somewhere else to sleep. What really bothers me is when you ask if someone snores, and they say no, then you end up in a room at night with them and they snore like crazy. I'm pretty sure if I snored I'd let people know up front. This is one instance where I don't really like surprises. Doesn't matter. I fixed the problem.

We had a normal breakfast then headed out to the British Museum, which was the destination for the day. Even though I've gotten entirely tired of museums, I still enjoyed myself at this one. (I've come to find that going around museums alone works best for me, because I get tired of waiting on other people to move on). I saw a HUGE Michelangelo drawing, only one of two that exist now. that was pretty incredibly. I don't love Italian Renaissance paintings and drawings or whatever, well I guess I do after thinking about it, but it is pretty powerful and a neat experience being in the presence of a piece of work created by an artist who is considered a master. I also saw a lot of chinese woodcut prints and what not. Those were interesting. Lots of beautiful chinese landscapes and trees and things. One of my favourite things that I saw was the ancient egyptian mummy displays. They had a mummified person, and all of these bones and decaying things. They had all of the tools and such used in the process of mummification on display. Pretty cool stuff. Seeing all of the bones and things reminded me of how much I enjoyed Physical Anthropology, well the lab at least. I'm looking forward to dominating the lecture section of that class this fall. Just sayin. There was another room in the museum called the 'clocks and watches' room. It was siiiick. It was just full of every single kind of clock or watch ever created. They had a lot of clocks taken apart so you could see how they work and everything. The entire room ticked and tocked and rang. Very cool.

We grabbed a quick lunch at a pub and after eating I headed to a Caffe Nero I had spotted earlier and sat and waited there for two others to meet me to just venture around for hte rest of the day. I just sat outside and enjoyed my delicious latte. Once I met up with the other two and we headed out. I had no idea where we were going, but I tagged along nonetheless. After arriving in Liverpool, I eventually found out that we were looking for a Photo Gallery that we were going to be going to the next day... so I said 'see ya' and headed back to the hotel. I don't want to go to a gallery twice. That's stupid. So I rode the subway back alone. too bad my ipod died, but I realized how much I love the subway. it's just so fun and fast moving and everything. It also made me realize how polite the people here are. Everyone watches out for everyone else on the subway. I saw a middle-aged woman give her seat up to an old lady. Men always come back down stairs to help a woman they passed with a stroller, and will carry it down the stairs for them. Boys won't take a seat unless the train has started moving and they've asked the women around them if they want the seat. It's awesome. I love the people here. Once I was back I had some chill kacie time. My favourite.

We went out to dinner at a Thai restaurant which I was nervous about at first, but ended up being quite good. After eating I walked to the Caffe nero a few blocks west from our hotel only to find out that they were closed. Everything closes early here, and by early I mean shops close around 7pm, and coffee places close generally at 9pm. Restaurants usually close a bit later because people eat late here (which is nothing new to me, my family has always had late meals) and pubs and bars close even later, but that's normal everywhere. Even though Caffe Nero was closed, I had a nice peaceful evening walk in a nice part of town. (The area where we're staying seems to be quite nice and seemingly expensive).

Overall, it was a pretty easy-going day, even though I went to yet another museum. I had to prepare though.. there are about seven museums on the schedule for tomorrow, so I made sure to get to bed at a decent time.

((SIDE NOTE: Justin Beiber music video on the telly. That's for you, Katrina.))

I love my new room. It's quiet, spacious, clean, and organized. I can't believe I go home in less than a week. I'm just finally starting to get used to being abroad and in London. Though, I do look forward to free refills, iced tea, iced drinks, large clean bathrooms, air conditioning, etc. (And family of course)

I miss church so much. Not having one that I really like in Manhattan sucks, and having been abroad for a month, I haven't been able to go. That's something I can't wait to get back into once I get home. I miss Sunday mornings at heartland with my family soooooo much.

Speaking of church, after reading a verse marked by my mom before bed I just kind of opened the bible to a random place and found this verse:

"Do not be afraid; keep on speaking; do not be silent. For I am with you, and no one is going to attack and harm you, because I have many people in this city." -Acts 18:9-10

Not that I've been afraid of being harmed or attacked or anything.. I just found that verse unique to my situation. Comforting for lack of a better word. I just loved how perfectly it fit in with everything. Kind of made me realize that closing off to the people I've been with isn't necessarily a good thing. Just because I don't want to really associate with them 24/7 doesn't mean that I can't havve a decent conversation even now and then.