In the Flow

Let's see...where did I leave off. Friday we went shopping, surprise surprise. But I did well. I only bought 2 hats, really cute hats, for 4 GBP each. The rest of the weekend was quite boring with work and my roomies gone to Amsterdam, Wales and Germany.
Monday at work I got to go out on a shoot for a book. Not like a book signing or anything cool, Mike took about 5 minutes of tape of a really old book that will be in some reporter's story about terrorism or something. It was really boring, but at least I didn't have to do silly rundowns and verbates!
Tuesday night, a few of us girls headed out to Sports Cafe for a fun night of dancing and one pound pints. It started out fun, but toward the end of the night I stepped on a broken piece of glass. It went through my shoe and pricked my skin. I started bleeding and it kind of hurt. I'm ok now though. My foot hasn't turned green and fallen off yet. I'll keep you posted.
Yesterday we went to Tate Britain for BLC. The workers were on strike so half of the museum was closed! But we got a very long, extensive tour by Jane. Tate Britain is an art gallery for any art produced by England dating back to 1535 or so.
Last night we went up to the Union. As we approached, a boy yelled, "I smell Americans." We had no reply. We just walked by and went inside. Now, I don't know if he doesn't like Americans or if he was just being silly. Later on, one of my friends said we should have replied with, "I smell an asshole." That would have been very clever. At the Union, there was a bouncy inflatable boxing rink. Jamie and I boxed each other...it was a lot of fun. Unfortunately, Ashley doesn't know how to work a camera, so I didn't get any pics or video of us boxing. Once the Union closed, Sahara and I headed off to another pub/club called Opal with some of the footballers. It was only about a 5 minute walk which was nice. The inside was like a cave...it was really cool. We'll have to go back again.
Side note: Here's some more subtle differences I picked up on:
1) When we say "I go to college," they say "I go to university" or "I go to uni" for short.
2) Their "ground floor" is our first floor and their first floor is our second floor.
3) Boys can tell we are American at pubs because we have perfect teeth! This happened at the Sports Cafe.
4) University in London is silly cheap...like $8,000 GBP for 3 years (which is the normal length of time).