GOOOO CHELSEA

I'm going to start by apologizing for any typos or spelling errors that result from me writing my blog entry after watching the Chelsea vs. Manchester game in Chelsea - I've had a few drinks and am blaming all errors on the alcohol. 

Just to clarify for mom - I was NOT late my first day of class, I arrived right on time. Others were late, but it was the first time we walked to campus by ourselves (it's 20 min away) and George Kennedy (later referred to as GK) took it all out on those of us who got there on time, but not at all to those who were actually late. Oh well. He likes to hear himself talk and tell us how poorly we wrote our papers. He was "depressed" after he read them. Please note, we wrote a one page summary on an 18 page article that was a huge bore to everyone who "read" it, so he's lucky he was only depressed and not suicidal.

We had our third day of class today - boring again, but SHORT which was a huge plus. After that we came back and did our next paper for tomorrow. We all put more effort into it because I think we all got Cs on our first one. Luckily, since GK was so "depressed", he didn't count these grades. =)  We'll improve them for next time. However, we've all realized that this summer class is not as blow off as we all hoped. (Yes mom and dad, I'll do better on my papers from now on, no worries.)

After our British Life and Culture lecture later in the afternoon today we came back, made a little pasta (angel hair with parm and butter), got ready and hopped on the tube to Chelsea to watch the football (soccer) game! The game was Chelsea vs. Manchester (for those of you who don't know - I wouldn't if I was in the States) they are both British teams. This game was the championship of all UK - amazing! We REALLY wanted Chelsea to win, and it came down to penalties (penalty kicks) or PKs. Manchester was expected to win, and sadly they did. We went to a pub in Chelsea and it was ridiculously packed! This game was a MUCH bigger deal to the British than the Superbowl is to us Americans - pretty big deal. So, everyone was drunk and singing, and yelling and cheering. Trust me, you haven't seen a "packed" bar / pub until you go to the biggest soccer game of the year in England - we didn't have room to move. People were smashed into each other but it was so worth it.

We met a guy who owns Silver Stone raceway - apparently a HUGE racetrack where they have major horse races (mom do you know anything about this?). He also owns property on Michigan Avenue in Chicago and all over the rest of the UK and US - sounded like he was loaded and proud of it. He was pretty open about owning a ton of property. 

Then we met two guys from Burmingham, one was married at 25.. he's been with his girl for 5 years - kind of reminded me of my relationship =)  minus the married part.

There was another group of gentlemen who were very drunk, and way too friendly. They kept saying, "Americans think we have agendas, we don't have agendas we're just friendly." But I wasn't convinced. You have to be really careful here because you never know what certain people will expect, especially if they offer to buy you a drink, etc. It's not like college bars where you can get a drink out of any random guy.. people here say they don't look for anything, but a lot are lying and it's more obvious than they think.

Other than that, we didn't do much today. The area of Kings Road was fun and very posh. There are a TON of cute stores, so we decided we'll not eat out for 3 weeks at the end of the trip and go shop! 

I made popcorn when I got back. 1 of the 3 bags I actually brought with me. I thought they'd sell it here, I was wrong. Which is a HUGE problem since it's kind of my addiction. It burnt =( stupid UK microwaves!

Oh yeah - Morgan fell down the stairs of the tube tonight - very very funny. She doesn't do well in flip flops we've realized. She tripped about 10 times today walking on the uneven sidewalks, or pavement as they call it here. The guy walking behind her was like, "are you okay?" It was hilarious! I'm sure she'll love me for talking about this on here tomorrow =)

I've been taking a ton of great pictures, but for some reason Picasa is being retarded and SUPER slow so I haven't been able to upload them! I'll work on that tomorrow. We have the day off tomorrow after class is over at 12:30 so I think we're going to come back, grab lunch and go to Hyde Park. I'm pretty excited about that. It's supposed to be 60s-70s tomorrow too so it'll be gorgeous! I'm sad, yet glad we're missing the hottest time of the summer. But VERY glad we're missing the $4.00+/gallon gas prices! 

Ok, I've blabbed on long enough. I'll be working on the picture situation, since more pictures of the roomies have been requested. 

night!!