Euro Wanderings: Into the Third Week

It's official...We are now into our third week here in London! It was a pretty good week and the first week of having my schedule the way it will be for the rest of the time. It looks like this:

Monday: Free
Tuesday: Social Foundations 10-1
Wednesday: History of Modern Europe 1:30-4:30
Thursday: Writing 9-12; History of Western Art 2-5
Friday: Free
*Classes are three hours but we have half hour break in the middle

Aside from having some really cool classes (especially History of Modern Europe and History of Western Art), I only have 3 days of class a week. How awesome is that? More time for homework, fun, and especially traveling!

On Monday, my roommate, Jack, and I decided to head to the Imperial War Museum for a presentation we had to give for our writing class later in the week. We checked out the museums website, saw that it was only a fifteen minute bike ride from our flat, and decided to give the rental bikes a shot (London has a cool bike rental program where you can pay 1 pound and use a bike for as long as you need it and then return it to another bike station when you're done). The bike ride was just as much an adventure as the museum itself. We rode our bikes through London, across the Thames, and to the museum, all while driving down the wrong side of the road, weaving in and out of traffic lanes, and avoiding busses. I think Jack and I both described the ride as "one of the scariest things we'd ever done." We made it there safely, though, and ended up having an awesome time.

Tuesday night was Big Dinner Night! In our second week, we prepared four types of pasta and four types of sauces for 20 people, along with a caprese salad and warm baguettes with olive oil. Two weeks, two victories. This one did take significantly less effort than the pizza, however, and was much less time consuming.

All in all, reading got finished on time for class, classes went well, and it was a good week! Now here we go for another weekend!