7-6

Only one more week before I get to go home! I know, I know. I've been looking forward to this for so long, but things just keep turning out differently than I'd planned, and I'm just generally easily upset. I miss my boyfriend and I'm having the same sort of issues socially in relation to my hearing issues as I would at home. Just multiply them by about ten. Speaking of math, I had to ask Hallie how to convert farenheight to celcius so I can make my dinner in a bit. I bought 2 mini pre-fab pizzas at the grocery store for under 1 pound, and I figured they'd have cooking directions on the label, but I didn't pay that close attention. Well, I didn't see any, and the ovens in the kitchen I'm assuming would be in celcius, so my estimate of "oh, about 10 minutes at 350-400" would be irrelevant. It's finally started raining like it was supposed to the whole time I've been on the trip. I hadn't brought an umbrella but I always carry my emergency poncho in my backpack. I finally had to use it today. It's supposed to be a single use sort of thing, but I'll need it for the Globe. I bought an umbrella at the British Museum today out of necessity, but you can't use umbrellas in the groundlings at the Globe. There's a bunch of Italian kids that moved in for the night making all sorts of noise, but they're only here for tonight. Tomorrow is the first of our 3 free days. I plan on possibly going to the Harry Potter premier in Leicester Square, if I can figure out what time it is. It might just be cool to hang out there for a bit and see it from afar like we saw the premier of Pirates 3, because I'm sure it'll be insane. Now that I have time to do whatever I want... there's a lovely little cafe with free wi-fi down the street, so I'm sleeping in and going there for breakfast tomorrow. Woooo! Internet! I'll actually be able to post these things. Sorry I've been so out of touch for the past few days. They had told us these dorms would have free internet access, but they lied (about the computer room, about connection from the room, about these dorms being liveable)... all lies! I just tried the connection in Justine's old room, but it didn't work. I got the "reset the wireless router" repair suggestion, and obviously that's not something I can do. A few people are getting out and going to hotels for the free days or the remainder of the trip. People were trying to get hotel rooms the first day we got here, but everything was booked because of Wimbledon. I just want out, period. I feel sick. I got some sort of pin prick size bites. I'm thinking there are fleas or something in here. My feet are so worn out. They have been for a while and they keep getting more sore. Today they were all pruny from walking around in the rain all day. I'm just not having a great time. I'm really tired and my eye is really irritated. The London leg of this trip is turning out not to be so great.
Oh yeah, so activities today: I totally forgot with all my whining... We met another one of our guides this morning and he took us on a tour of the Bloomsbury area. I think that's where we were. He was talking about writers/artists who had lived in the area and their melodramatic lives. He said something like, "They loved in triangles and lived in squares." He led us to the British Museum and we were there for about an hour and a half. I thought the idea was to go around the museum and we'd probably get something to eat later, but most people had gone to lunch. I was hungry but I'd stuck around looking at boring old stuff. :P Oh yeah, after that we went to the Dickens house, but I really haven't read much Dickens to be honest, so it was of less interest to me than it would have been to say, my parents. On the way home I went with some classmates who wanted some coffee to a cafe and got a sandwich. The tomato/basil/mozarella sandwich is pretty common in the pre-made chilled sandwich racks around here, but at this place they advertised it as a panini and when I brought it up to the counter to pay for it they said it would be a couple minutes. I was a bit confused, but when I got it, panini style, it turned out to be really good, muchbetter than raw. Then we came back to the dorms and on the way we stopped at the grocery store where I picked up a couple mini frozen pizzas for 46 pence each for when I don't want to go out for dinner and/or everything's closed anyway but I'm hungry. Honestly, I don't understand how so many things can close at 5 or 6 when there are 4 more hours of sunlight left. Anyway, I think I might go try to make one now with that conversion Hallie gave me.