Last week, I witnessed my first thunder-hailstorm, which was also the first time I've seen the ground in London turn white, since snow never sticks around here. Today, it feels like high spring. The sun was out, and Archbishops park (right behind my dorm) smelled like flowers. I spent most of the day in the college library, doing more research about those godforsaken Victorian authors, but I relished the 45-minute walk back home, just as the sun was going down, and it was beginning to feel like a summer night--cool and breezy, with the promise of warmth in the morning.
I'm starting to feel the end-of-the-school-year high I get every spring, when I still have one last crunch to go, but the end is in sight, and DAMN, is it a good end this year. Friday, I leave for Madrid with Nora, and then continue on to Granada, Sevilla, Barcelona, and PARIS (!!!) with Jane, arriving back in London on April 20th (hopefully), just in time to turn in my papers. Then, my family (minus Dad) comes to visit! I can't wait to take my bro pubbing.
I was a naughty child and didn't finish all my papers before taking off for a long weekend, so I still have one 4000-word paper left to go, but hell, even staying up all night researching sounds like fun at this point.
In other news, I got back from a weekend trip to Amsterdam late Sunday night. This wasn't the proposed trip to Amsterdam/Prague/Berlin with Angela, which turned out to be too much of a time and money crunch for me, but rather a short trip with Nora and her flatmates. Apart from the grueling 10-hour bus ride there and back, the weekend was ridiculously relaxing. Amsterdam is definitely the friendliest big city I've been to, which was refreshing. London is anything but friendly, in general. We enjoyed the hazy coffee shops, got lost on a random tram to the edge of the city, wandered around the endless bridges and canals, went to the Sex Museum, went to the famous flower market, peeked into the red light district, and went to the Anne Frank Museum, which was definitely a sobering experience. Sadly, for some reason, I didn't have the presence of mind to take as thorough an assortment of pictures as I usually have after my weekend trips, so you'll have to make do with just a few.
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That sounds like such a wonderful way to celebrate the end of school! It's so awesome to read about all the stuff you're doing. Kudos for having the balls to study abroad and actually travel extra while there:)
I know! I'm so excited for Spain. Feria, sangria, and Mediterranean titty beaches, here I come!
Good words.
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