There Are No Grape Skittles In London

The purple is "blackcurrant" flavor. It's gross.

Anyway, Monday afternoon Judson, Rob and I went to the Sherlock Holmes Museum! On Baker Street! It was so cool. They basically recreated Holmes and Watson's house based on every detail ever written. They also had wax figures posed from the major stories, which was kinda lame but still kinda fun. It was pretty cool. I don't think the boys had a good time, but I liked it. P.S. The museum is right next to The London Beatles Store. It was so cool. They had records and stuff and like really vintage-y stuff. I will definitely be making a trip back.

Monday night we found a really great gelato shop called Scoop in Covent Garden. I got coffee and chocolate in one cone! It was huge, and it was delicious!

Tuesday at work I finally started writing! I did some more research and wrote my first press release ever! Well, actually I wrote three. And it was awesome! I was nervous all night though because my boss didn't get a chance to read them that day. I was so nervous all night.

I got into work Wednesday and my boss really liked my writing! He had me write up a news release for one of the books and write a review for it. It felt weird writing a review for a book I didn't read but it's whatever. It was just a really good day because I had something to keep me fully occupied the whole time. Helen even let us go early because it was too nice outside! (Seriously, it was the first time I'd seen the sun in way too long)

Later that night a bunch of us went out to the London Pub (our go-to) for a few beers. It was really fun until a few Canadians came over and started hitting on all the girls. I have dealt with my fair share of creepers but when one of them says, "Hey you guys should come up to our hotel rooms and help us pick out clothes for the club we're all going to go to," I was like "umm....no definitely not." So we peaced out and went to McDonalds. Best decision ever. It was so good! Just like home. It actually made me a little homesick.

Today was a really long day of classes. Culture By Design was...interesting. It was all about photography and we looked at some pictures in class about 9/11 and how the different views of it can interpret different things. We saw an image of a man falling from the window he presumably jumped out of and it was really disturbing. Then we went to the Tate Modern art museum and went to the exhibit Exposed which is basically a photography exhibit of people who don't know they're being photographed. It was really cool and pretty interesting...until I got to the section called "violence". Call me crazy, but I just cannot stand to see images of people killing themselves, being killed, or dead bodies stacked up like firewood. I kind of freaked out a bit and was very quiet for the rest of the trip. Not a very fun experience. I wanted to puke/cry. Sorry if that's a bit graphic but, then, you didn't have to look at the photos.

Pop Culture was also an adventure. Today's lesson was all about fashion. Specifically male v. female fashion. Lecture was very short so we decided to leave for our outing early and take a trip to Harrods- aka department store heaven. It was crazy. Chock full of major designers. Judson and I found a plain white t-shirt for 70 GBP (about $120). Of course, it was Prada. Then we got lost going to the Fashion and Textile Museum which turns out, upon finally finding our way, that they don't have a permanent exhibit on display at the moment. So we sat in the Fashion and Textile Museum Cafe and talked about our major project-final paper and presentation. I think I might do gender differences in music, specifically image and performance.

Tonight we stayed in, made dinner, watched Friends, and now I'm about to pack for Edinburgh, Scotland tomorrow!!! We leave at like 8 a.m. ugh. I will blog again after my sure-to-be amazing weekend. Cheers!

-APC