Blogs from Bloomsbury, Greater London, England, United Kingdom, Europe - page 3

Goodenough College is located near Russell Square Station. Being in Bloomsbury it attracts as residents, writers and musicians as well university students of many other disciplines. I lived here from 1990 to 1992 with about 750 other post graduate students from all over the world. It was an enlightening experience.... read more

Who ever invented the idea of maths at 9 in the morning obviously never had a taste of their own medicine. It was, quite literally, painful to try and stay awake in that class. He handed back our assignments, not sure if those are even any part of the final grade at all, but I was quite suprised to see that I got a B-. My first mark of the period and it is a B-! I must say that I was a little disapointed. I've been disapointed with many things lately. Including how much I am spending, how tired I feel all the time, which I am sure has something to do with the fact that I don't have a gym membership, how little time I have to go exploring, I feel like I haven't ... read more

Tuesday was back to the same old grind that is life in London. I woke up not knowing where I was and after 15 minutes of telling myself I should get out of bed, I rolled out, put some clothes on... then realized the windows were open so some residents of central London got a free show... Stuffed my face with some 'fibre flakes' and forced myself down the stairs and back up to room 15 for 'finite maths'. Another maths class that I could barely stay concious during. I think it would be better if he wasn't sooooo slow. I got out of class at about 10:30 so I walked to Sainsbury's to get some groceries, check this out: Peanutbutter, Jelly, bread, bagels, cheese, cherry tomatoes, 4 peaches, 5 nectarines, 4 cans of soup, and ... read more

Let me just pick up exactly where I left off. Yesterday after I came back up to the flat from blogging I realized we had nothing much to do. Then I came up with the brilliant idea that since I now knew where Trafalgar square was, thanks to our lovely jog on the scavenger hunt, I should take advantage of some of their free museums. So Andy, Matt, and I walked down to the National Portrait Gallery to have a look. My favourite is the Tudor gallery of course. Although they don't have my favourite Holbein of Ann of Cleeves, I wonder where it currently resides. Look at that, barely a week in London and I already sound more sophisticated. Every art gallery is just too big for any patron to give all the works any ... read more

I'm so brilliant at living on a budget. So far I have spent only £36. £1 on postcards and £35 to prepay for my entire paris trip! The buildings here are so confusing, it is like a labyrinth. I literally got stuck in the basement area for 10 minutes last night trying to head back from the computer lab. You have to go up some stairs, then down others that are hidden near a lift in the back, there better not be a fire here I may never get out. You have to use a swipe card to get in and out of every building and every room. But they close the front door of my building at 5.30, and then I have to go through the basement and out the main building to get out. ... read more