Blogs from Bloomsbury, Greater London, England, United Kingdom, Europe - page 4

If she new how good I was doing about keeping clean. It's frustrating that there is no place to keep anything though. No counter space in the bathroom is driving me crazy! And there isn't and outlet in there either, so I had to blow dry my hair in the kitchen. Oh well. It's crazy that we leave the windows open all the time, no screens and there are no bugs, I love that! Andrew took me on a little walking tour of the local area since he has been here for a while and I bought some post cards, now I just have to find a post office. London is so beautiful. Way better than New York! Just the entire feel of it. Hamley's is the giant toy store and there was a man dressed ... read more

Second Travel Writing assignment: find something cheap and fun to do in London and write a guide-book style article on it. All Star Lanes Victoria House Bloomsbury Pl. London WC1B 4DA p. 020-7025-2676 www.allstarlanes.co.uk Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday: 5:00pm - 11:30pm Thursday: 5:00pm - 1:00am Friday & Saturday: 12:00pm - 2:00am Sunday: 12:00pm - 11:00pm Admission: £8.50 before 5:00pm, £7.50 before 5:00pm (admission is for one person per game, shoes included). Nestled in the heart of London’s British literary district, All Star Lanes is a charming bowling alley with an American 1950’s twist. Posters of pin-up girls are plastered onto the walls while Elvis and other American Bandstand regulars play from the jukebox. Bowlers can even purchase their own vintage bowling tee or dress. If you’re looking for a more British approach to bowling, try a Pimm’s ... read more

Okay so, I'm not great at the blogging thing but I'm giving it a go! I suppose my order will work backward because this site doesn't have Milan yet (where i started.) Today we traveled from Paris to London on the Eurostar high speed train which took us through the Chunnel. As exciting as it was it made for a nice nap! We were out of the Chunnel in 20 minutes and the whole train ride took just over 2 hours! It got over 200 mph but it was much smoother and nicer than the last train we took. When we got to london we were met by FSU study center staff. They gave us our Oyster Cards in Ikea envelopes (apparently Ikea sponsors The Underground in some way.) These cards act as debt cards in ... read more

I guess it's time for me to bring up the main reason why I came to London this summer.... to take classes. I needed to take 8 units over the summer to guarantee that I will be indeed graduating come May 2009, and I wanted the chance to study abroad as part of my education, so this program seemed like a good fit. So far, it's a great fit! I started my classes on Tuesday: Travel Writing with Professor Goldfarb and Reporting the Arts with Professor Sierz. Travel Writing is going to be a very "sense oriented" class, where we write with our feelings and emotions instead of writing hard news pieces. It's been a while since I've done any creative writing, so we'll see how that goes. Goldfarb stressed the importance of writing with our ... read more

Sitting on my cute little yellow bed, listening to Coldplay, with the London Daily Telegraph sprawled out across my lap. Am I an Anglophile yet? Perhaps. So, I'm very determined to get caught up with each of my little adventures before I get too caught up in my school work, which actually seems like it's gonna be pretty time consuming. Boo. Except for its all writing projects that sound fantastic. Not so boo. Sunday was another program orientation day. All of the journalism students congregated in the courtyard of our building to make the 30 minute trek down to campus together. Our house, Kamen House, is in the Clerkenwell district of London, while the NYU London Mansion known as 6 Bedford Square is in Bloomsbury, near the British Museum. It's a nice walk of a little ... read more