I didn't blog at all last week and I am currently attempting to play catch up. This post is going to be rather scatter brained, but I hope I get across some key points of things I have done over the past seven days.
We did a walking tour of British markets last week. Most of the markets were closed, which was rather disappointing, but I got a lot of really neat pictures. Again, this shows my interest in ironwork. Carolina blue iron work with the Tower Bridge in the background. Yeah, I love this picture.
Thursday was my 20th birthday! After watching all of my friends break away from being a teenager, I spent a fair amount of time wishing I was no longer 19. Then I slightly freaked out realizing I was 20, because that sounds like a real adult age. Considering everyone here has only known me for a few weeks, my birthday was awesome! Almost everyone on the program came out to dinner with me. We then came back to the flat and had cake and hung out for a little while. It was nice to get dressed up and have a good dinner out with everyone. Not going to lie, though, the first time I was asked my age and answered "20" was really strange. I liked it though. I finally sound like I am the age of a junior.
My homework for my food class this week was to go to a chocolate shop and observe the displays and presentations of the chocolates. I went to Paul A Young Fine Chocolates and it was absolutely amazing. They make the chocolates in the basement of the shop, so it smells completely incredible! The chocolates are made without preservatives, so they have to be eaten relatively immediately, but they experiment with flavors and ingredients more than I have seen in any chocolate shop before. I got two truffles: a salted caramel chocolate bite and a white chocolate truffle with a lavender, honey, rosemary filling. They were some of the best pieces of chocolate I have ever had.
Tonight I went to another evensong, this time at Westminster abbey. It was so amazing to participate in worship there and to see the abbey without hundreds of tourists. It was so cool. One of the girls and I are planning to attend as many of these as possible. It's an easy way to see the churches without paying for them, and it lets us experience them in they way they were intended to be experienced: as a place of worship.
I can't believe this is the fourth week I have been here. It's flying by and not at the same time. Some days it feels like I have been here forever and some times I feel like I just arrived. I don't think the excitement and shock of being here will ever go away, and I am so thankful for that.
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