London

Ch-ching! I have to start by underlining how expensive the city of London is! it's hard not to get carried away with all the amazing fashion it offers! Most things really are more expensive here than back home in Canada.

The day started off with a breakfast at the refectory (aka. Regent College's cafeteria) with Paul. Crepe (with Nutella obvi), eggs, sausage, hash browns, OJ and coffee .. mmmm. After that, we showered up, go ready and went for a walk in Regent's Park where the school's campus is located. it is immense and honestly stunning with gorgeous gardens and loads of birds/ducks/swans/tall ass birds - makes me wish I had brought my runners with me.

Then, we took the tube to Trafalgar square where we observed all the tourist attempting to climb onto the giant lion statues' backs (if you've been, you know what I mean haha!) - after a lot of efforts of our own, we manage to get up there too! definitely not as easy as you'd think and worthy of a picture. For the rest of the day, we walked around, went to the Portrait Museum, Big Ben, Westminster Abbey, and the London Eye.

Funny story about the London Eye - Paul and I were waiting in line to pay for our tickets to ride in it (17 £/each) and noticed that the girl in front of us had a 2 for 1 voucher printed from the internet. We decided to come back another time with the voucher to be nice to the wallet for once. When we got out of line, a security guard asked us why we were leaving, and when we told him the reason, he offered to let us get on the ride for 20 £ for both. We slipped him the bill and not only did we get ourselves a deal, he made us cut in front of the whooooooooooooolee waiting line! That's some service right there! Anyways, the ride was alright. It really gives you a good view of the whole city (however, I'd recommend you to go at night so that you can see the city lights).

Finally, we finished the afternoon by heading back to Oxford Circus for some more damage. I finally made it past the accessories and into the clothing department of Topshop. AMAZING. But also veryyy pricey. Still got some sweet stuff there that I cannot wait to wear!

Finally, we went for a quick bite, went back to the dorms for some pre drinking and hung out with some friends before heading out to KOKO club with 2 parisians, a mexican, and another montrealer (all student's at RC). The club was huge and set up like a theatre with different floors. They had a few bands playing that night (including Zoey Deschanel's band, Her and Him). I could not be happier with the music choices made by the DJ after the bands were finished - he played remixed songs by artists like Arctic Monkeys (I must say the crowds here are really into that type of music VS. Montreal's crowds which are more into house music I'd say).

Anywhoo, time for bed now. I've got a breakfast date in the city with Beatrice tomorrow morning.

Cheers!