Crunch Time

Like always we had class first thing in the morning. We all ended up being a little bit late due to all of the buses being full but since we were all together we didn’t get in trouble! The first thing we did was talk about our schedule of events for the week and the breakdown of the rest of our time in London as it is quickly drawing to a close :( Next we had our discussion about the news like always. Then Lyndon broke us up into groups to start our debate on the British versus American health care, welfare, and education systems. He gave each group a statement and then we had to agree or disagree with it and argue our opinion. After having twenty minutes to work out our arguments we headed back into the class for the fun to begin.

The debate got quite heated as you would expect, but especially so because Lyndon played Devil’s advocate. I thought it was interesting to hear what everyone had to stay though I stayed out of it for the most part. The thing about our group is we are all pretty set in our ways and that’s fine as long as we know that about each other, but when it comes to a debate it can get ugly pretty fast. The rest of the day people continued to share their opinions on what they thought other people said during the debate. So class stirred things up that’s for sure but I thought it was fun. When the debate was over class was over for the day. We have lots of homework to do so Lyndon gave us the rest of the afternoon off so we had some time to work on it.

Straight after class we began our fitness walk. We went to Notting Hill tube station and walked through Kensington Gardens where Kensington Palace is located. We walked through the park to meet up with Matt and the boys. Once we met up with the boys we walked to the Princess Diana Memorial Playground. You can only go in the park if you have children with you so we got the opportunity to go in! I was really excited because I had wanted to see it but knew there was no way for me to do this without some kids! The park was pretty cool. Denise let us play for just a few minutes and then made us continue our walk. We then walked to the Peter Pan memorial at the other end of the park. Along the way Nathan and I had some fun walking along. He showed me how he could run to the park and back super fast. Then we had to run to catch up with the rest of the group because they had gotten ahead. After we saw the memorial the boys begged us to go play with them at the park. We all had lots of homework to do but I love playing in parks so I couldn’t refuse. So Jeana, Ashlin, and I went to play with the boys in the park close by. They wanted to go back to the other playground but it was too far away.

After playing for a little while we had to head home to get started on our homework. We spent the rest of the afternoon getting our work done. I worked on Rob’s paper and got about half of it done before it was time to head to the theatre for an evening show of 39 Steps. The show was really interesting because there were only four actors for the entire show who played all the parts. It was set up how they used to perform productions back in the day. It was a comedy based on a guy who was accused of murder. You wouldn’t expect that should be funny but the way the four of them changed characters was what made it highly entertaining. The props they used were really creative and only added to the humor. The show wasn’t like anything I have ever seen before and probably wouldn’t have decided to see on my own so I loved it.

Once it was over Denise wanted some of us to go out to the pub for a drink with her but we were really tired so half of us headed home while the other half went out with her. We stopped in one of the touristy stores on the way home to pick up some gifts before heading back to our flat. I then tried to focus and get more of my paper done before crashing from exhaustion.