7-10

I've spent the trip feeling like the only one allowed to drink who wasn't, but now I have found my drink. It is the White Russian (vodka, kalua and milk). Oh my gosh. It is so good. Justine got me one at the pub across the way and then I bought another one for myself. Before the pub I had a long, but for the most part uneventful, day. I got up and got ready to go, started wandering towards the Globe, which is supposedly really close to our new dorms, but I had to ask a ton of people where to go because every time a sign directed me one place there was construction that led to a dead end and I had to take another route. While rambling around I grabbed a muffin for breakfast and then was reminded that the Tate Modern is right across the way from the Globe, so I hung out there, got lunch at the cafe, and then met the class at the Globe at 3:30 for discussion. We had dinner at the Pizza Express next door and then saw A Midsummer Night's Dream. It was good, the second half more so than the first, because we were in the groundlings and moved closer during the intermission. These new dorms are so nice. We have our own bathrooms! It's kind of weird because there's a shower head and drain on the floor and you just close a curtain which doesn't even completely cut off the toilet from the shower, but whatever. It's all mine! I wish we had been in these dorms all along! It even has a mini-fridge with delivery numbers for pizza places on magnets and little overnight bags with shampoo and stuff. They smell nice, too. Only one more day in London, wow. I don't feel so bad that I didn't have too much time to do things with all the lodging issues since I'd done most of the big touristy stuff with the family three years ago. I'm still having trouble finding an actual sweet shop with bins that you dig the candy out of so I'll probably end up getting Roni's candy from a grocery store or something anyway. I leave at the crack of dawn on the 12th, but then (another great feature to this place of lodging) there's a phone in the lobby that calls a cab company when you pick it up. Too bad we weren't here the whole trip. There still would have been the pub across the street to try to get internet from. I just haven't had time since moving here on such short notice. I'll probably post my remaining blogs when I get home, and there aren't many pictures because like I said, I'd done most of the touristy stuff, so it didn't occur to me to take too many pictures. In some places you aren't really allowed to anyway. I'm wishing we had had more time in these nice dorms, but I miss my boyfriend and my family, and heck, even my cruddy car. My feet are killing me! Home in a little lesss than 48 hours!