Last Days in London

Hey guys,

Well the school has turned into a full out war. It seems that the bullies are on thin ice and pretty much everyone is looking for revenge. They've had one too many drunken mishaps and now they are on Regent's Wanted list. What goes around comes around I guess. There is a group of us who have seemed to have risen above the drama. Can you believe that? me .. above the drama?

After writing SEVEN papers this weekend, I got the chance to see a little more of London. Sunday I went to Hyde Park to see Speakers Corner. There are little soap boxes scattered around and people protest or publicize their cause. People flock and listen and even retaliate. There are only three
rules: no speaker can threaten anyone personally, no speaker can say something to cause a riot or immediate panic (like fire!), and they cannot say anything against the Queen. The speakers were all pretty crazy, but the people that went for a rebuttal were ever crazier. It was a really cool atmosphere, but after a while, I was like if I wanted to just hear people yell irrationally... I can go home to
Daddy. Well then I headed for the Camden Markets, which has pretty much become my homeland. I love it there. I wondered through and then headed home to study for finals.

Today, Katie and I went to the British Library which has a really cool museum. I saw original manuscripts from Shakespeare and Jane Austin, original sheet music from Beethoven and Mozart, The original Aesop's fables, and Alice in Wonderland, the only remaining medieval Beowulf, Leonardo di Vinci's original sketches, letters from Sir Issac Newton and Charles Darwin, The Beatles very first records and hand written lyric books, and Two out of four of the only reaming parts of the Magna Carta. It was pretty freaking nuts let me tell you. After our Shakespeare final we headed back out and went to the British Library, but it was closed do to all the strikes going on, so we went to the
Tate Britain. That was mostly closed as well for the same reason, but there were two parts of the Gallery open. The main on was a recreation of the protest that is currently going on in front of Parliament. So, being the ridiculous people that we are, we walked there and saw the ACTUAL protest
(and striking) going on against GB and America's war on Iraq.

Tomorrow is my last day here, and the cream of the crop has planned a wonderful day and evening out to celebrate with me. I can't wait.

Oh yea, the Prime Minister announced his resignation... and it wasn't my fault I swear.

ENGLAND IS FALLING APART!!!!

Love, Jenna