This Past week

I spent the past week doing all sorts of random things. I visited many museums - The Science Museum, Natural History Museum, Victoria and Albert Museum, and British Museum. The museums here are amazing and my favorite so far is the British. It is mostly ancient art and has sculptures from the Parthenon and other Greek and Roman temples. It also has a huge Egyptian exhibit and houses the Rosetta Stone. I'm going to try to make it back soon to see the exhibits I missed. I have studied most of the pieces in my art history class I took last spring at Madison. I am so glad I took that class and am looking into taking another one.

One of my friends visited this week on a spring break trip hosted by the naval academy. I hung out with him a lot and also with the rest of his program. They were all a lot of fun. We mostly went out to dinner and to pubs every night. Tuesday, he took me along to see Wicked. It was great, but a little strange to hear the characters speaking in British accents. Friday, I gave them a tour of Parliament and then went with them to Cambridge to see some of the schools. We didn't do a whole lot, but it was beautiful.

At work, I got to sit in on a House of Commons debate that my MP was speaking in. It was held in Westminster Hall, which is a room similar to the House of Commons chamber. My MP was speaking about audio description, which describes what is happening in tv shows and movies so visually impaired people can enjoy the same thing. While it was pretty boring, it was cool to sit in the room while this was happening.

Today, I spent most of the day relaxing on our balcony doing homework and enjoying the beautiful spring weather we have here in London right now. Tomorrow I hope to walk around London and go to some more museums or something. That is all that is new in London.