Last Post!!!

Exciting news! Tonight will be my last post!!!!! We are heading back to American on Saturday and we are all so excited. I have really enjoyed my time here in London but i cant wait to get home. A month is a lot longer than we all thought it was going to be. This experience has been an amazing one it will be something that i can look back on for the rest of my life. Thank you to everyone who has been reading my blog and sending emails. I cant wait to see everyone when I get back! I am going to Waco for a few days then will back in Amarillo next Thursday!

See you all soon!

Paris.....the city you get lost in.

Well over the week we got to go to Paris! Which was really exciting and a lot of fun the second day!! We left the hotel at 3:30 to catch the train and the chunnel. We decided to try and use a tour company so the plan was Monday we would go, check into the hotel and then have the day to spend doing whatever we would like... well it didn't really happen that way. After seeing the Eiffel Tower and visiting the Louvre we went to try and find our hotel to check in little did we know the address that the company gave us was completely wrong! Learning from my dad it of course did not take long until I was on the phone with the tour company asking to speak to the manager and for our money back. After an hour bus ride through the ghetto of Paris, two 30 euro cab rides and 4 hours later we finally made it to the hotel! (thanks for helping us Colony!)

Day two was much better! We met up with the tour guide and spent the day sight seeing in Paris. We were able to see all the historical spots in the city. We also got to go up on the Eiffel tower, take a boat ride on the river Seine and to Notre Dame. The day ended up being much better!

Texas Embassy & Prime Meridian

This week we were also able to go to the Texas Embassy to celebrate Jean's birthday. Her sweet aunt and mom (who know the owners of the Embassy) made us reservations and set everything up for us. When we got there the table was decorated and ready for the birthday! It was so nice to have chips, hot sauce, and margaritas! We closed our eyes and pretended we were at home! There is also a wall in the restaurant that everyone signs there names and we of course added ours. There were also a lot of other Baylor students names from Baylor Great Brittan this summer.

Tonight in the FREEZING rain and sleet we walked up to the Prime Meridian in Greenwich. We were so glad we went at night though because there is a green light that shows in the sky representing the prime meridian. It was defiantly worth the trek up the hill to see!

While we were trying to find the meridian we ended up at a cute area where i saw this Carosel and had to take a picture of.

Thanksgiving week...

Thanksgiving in London?

Being in London over the holiday was a little weird... we were able to find a service at St. Paul's cathedral for Americans. It was really neat to see all of the people gathered together for the service even when we went in America. It did make us all a little homesick though. The ambassador spoke and there was a big flag procession which was really neat to see a lot of the people at the service we emotional which was interesting to see.

Friday was my last day of teaching at the schools here! It was bittersweet, I have really come to love the students here but I am excited about getting back to my students in America. I was able to watch a final christmas musical performance which ive been spending a lot of time on helping the teachers get it ready! Mrs. Prestwhich, the teacher i was working with, was so sweet and made a book for me with letters from each of the students thanking me and telling me how they would miss me! It was so cute.. i included a couple of pictures one is of the outside of the book and the other is one of the kids letters.

Sorry its been so long!

Well it has been awhile since my last post. We have done some fun things! Sara and Josh came into town so its been great to have some comfort of home with us. This weekend Paige went to Norway so Sara, Josh, Jean and I did some exploring on our own. Travel was stressful because there were a few tubes that are under construction London is preparing for the next Olympics so things are pretty stressful! On Friday night we had some great Chinese food at Wagamama which is a neat modern restaurant. On Saturday we went to Kinsington Palace which was the home of Diana then we went and did some shopping at Harrods! Josh really enjoyed the large crowds and shopping with 3 girls! We stopped at a beatuful park that was outside Kinsington Palace.

the second half of the tour

These are a few pictures that I took at Oxford. The first two pictures are "Harry Potter" themed. The first one is the lightning bold that inspired part of the movies and the other picture is where they filmed different parts of the movie.

The next two pictures are also at Oxford. The one on the left is one of the colleges in Oxford and the other picture is one of the dorms. We were able to go to the gift shops and get some Oxford clothing!

Over the weekend

These are some picutres from our weekend. The tour turned out to be really nice. Starting at the top are picutres of Stonehenge. It was neat to see and to hear about. After that is a picture of Big Ben which i took while we were touring parliment. The tour was amazing but we didnt get to take any picutres on the inside. We were able to see some really great things like where the queen addresses the nation and where Winston Churchill would rub his ring on the podium when he was giving speeches and would get nervous. The last picutre is a picutre of Windsor Castle where we went today. The flag on the top of the building shows if the queen is in that today or not. Luckily she was in today! but we didnt get to see her...