BBC and Parliament

We started today with a tour of Parliament. It was gorgeous inside, very intricate. it reminded me of the inside of the Vatican, but not as tall and not as large. A small scale Vatican. We had a talk by one guy - he was soo monotonous it was awful, especially at 8:30 in the morning. After that we got to walk around and see the house of Lords and the house of Commons and the chair where the Queen sits when she's there - it's made of 22 karat gold - I've never seen so much gold in my life. its not like its just gold on the chair .. its gold on practically the entire end of one room, it's crazy. It was stunning. Then we went to the BBC tube stop, got off and ate lunch at a local pub. I had an awesome chicken and bacon melt with "chips" but while I was eating, the headline news came on and announced bird flu was found in chickens in Oxfordshire - pretty close to London. It's not the strain most deadly to humans, but still - it's the bird flu. They contained the area and said all food is still okay to eat, so hopefully my sandwich won't kill me.

We went to he BBC and went on a tour. We saw a lot of really cool rooms. The weather studio has 30+ reporters who use the room, so all they have to do is go in and touch their name on the touch screen and the camera automatically goes to their height, the lights automatically adjust to their skin tone and the microphone adjusts to their voice.. how cool is that? It's all perfectly ready for each person with the touch of a button.  Then we went to our own studio room and did our own game show. Me and 2 other girls (Caroline and Christy) were picked to be contestants and Carl was a newsperson. I won the contest =) and got a BBC Breakfast coffee mug! the perfect gift since I collect mugs =)

After that we came back, I fell asleep watching a movie and then Kaylin and Megan and I went to Da Marios (spelling?). It's a famous pizza place where Princess Diana always took her William and Harry to get pizza. It was fantastic! I want to go back. But pizza's cost 8+ pounds, and you don't have left overs. But I mean, for delicious pizza in London, I guess that's worth it. Everything else is outrageously priced, I'm slowly getting used to it. 

Not much else new, I start my internship tomorrow so I'm very excited and anxious for that, maybe I'll have time to ask  a few questions tomorrow, and then of course tomorrow night is the big party! Hopefully we'll only have to volunteer for the first half, or something, so we can meet people. 

I'm off to bed... goodnight!