Since U Been Gone

Since U Been Gone:

-Kelly Clarkson disappeared from the social scene.

-...I Can breathe (…for the first time).

PROBLEM (30+ girls living on top of each other and one gets what she “thinks” is pneumonia…300 kleenex boxes later we realize its not pneumonia. Just the worst cold ever.) Yay.

-My computer died. See ya later generator! I’ll miss you :(

-NEW COMPUTER! I hate/love you.  I still love PC’s … but... now I have a mac. 

I know I’m macbook guy now that you always see in class doing the 4 fingered swipe down the mouse pad to sweep their millions of windows up, back and forth, back and forth, hypnotizing you into thinking you really need to be able to do that. No you don’t. It’s just annoying and extremely time consuming since when you have nothing to do you end up swiping like crazy as if that is going to spark some sort of project for you to do besides take notes in class.  No that doesn’t happen to me…

-Went to Paris? C’est Le Vie.

Best part of Chartres Cathedral besides the name. 

The Space Pod. Yes my back is against the wall in this. It was a fun time. 

Things you can do in this space.

Sit.

-Pass out every night from the most event packed days ever.

-Jump on the mattress expecting a mattress naturally, oh wait no instead you’ve just slammed your body down onto what Etap Hotels like to perceive as a mattress, a slab of steel.

-Watch the only TV channel in Enlgish, which we’re still not sure what that was.

Things you can’t do in that space.

-Everything else. 

Champs Elysees

Outside the Orangerie

Best. Pizza. Ever. Ambien

-Saw Zac Effron. Worshipped.

Real. Life. 

-Went to Dead peoples houses:

• Shakespeare
• Bronte Sisters
• Jane Austen

• Wordsworth
• Keats
• Rudyard Kipling

Hoorah for Rudyard. 

• Beatrix Potter
• John Lennon
• Virginia Woolfe

-Went to Les Miserable.  Almost wept. SO GOOD!

-Started using weep, weeping, wept, in my vocabulary (thank you Andrea)

-Stood in front of Stone Henge and forever put awful screen saver default images to shame.

-BEDES WORLD. Because why would you not want to go there...? Haven't heard of The Venerable Bede? Look him up. 

(Obviously we had a REALLY good time in the museum from the amount of pictures I have in there to the amount from the playground outside...)

Huge pig. 

Birds Nest with Professor Penny Bird. YES!

I am currently shooting by on this amazing zipline at rocket speed...wait no I'm not. Not really known for the impressive equipment here at Bede's World....

-Went to the Lake District. BEAUTIFUL.

Me, Morgan, Mackenzie 

The Moors (near the Bronte Sisters home)

Me and Mackenzie

 If this isn't THE CREEPIEST thing you've ever seen, don't know what is.  Oh did I mention she was mouthing "help me... Let me out... I can't get out!'? yeah.  Also, did I mention I am EMOTIONALLY SCARRED??

-Went to Wales. Did some Wale Watching. 

(Me and Jenna)
Big Pit Coal Mines. Yes they thought about what to name this for a significant amount of time. So cool! Got to go down in the mines with mining gear. Lookin good :)

WALES WORLD
An entire museum on the history of Wales-outside! It actually was really cool, they brought in buildings from all over from different time periods in Wales, all the way back to the Anglo-Saxon times!...but obviously we spent most of our time doing productive things...

Yep. Had to. 

These "leaves" could LITERALLY cut through wood. And I tried to pick one.  Worthless.

thurprise

Grace and Andrew prepping my apple that I later speared with an umbrella.  SO SWEET! Probably the crowned jewel of my athletic career. 

Pig Trough

Stumbled upon a Mini Cooper advertisement...

Cow

MY FUTURE CHILD! The most on point mullet I have ever seen. SO CUTE!

 Hertfordshire! 

Benbow Farm, where Wilford Woodruff baptized an entire congregation of the United Bretheren. Well all but one.  

Our fearless leaders on top of Malvern Beacon.

Representin' the Taz pose everywhere I go.

Gadfield Elm! The first Mormon cathedral. So cool, we had a little service inside.
I had to play the organ that was SO old but don't worry, we practiced on the Center's organ....and by practice I mean played Phantom of the Opera all night long in a quartet...needless to say it went really well.

Gadfield Elm Chapel. Hertfordshire. 

Since U Been Gone…

September 4

Crack of Dawn…ish


When you’re entire room wakes up at noon, that’s when you know you’re going places. Obviously we were a little worn out from the week of wonders but we got up and went to the famous Waffle House. I think waffles to the British are like cake (considering its on the dessert menu) but we all ordered it for breakfast with scrambled eggs they made in a microwave. Hmm... other than those freaky looking sponge disasters it was actually really good! SOO sweet though.

Went to Tuk Tuk Thai for dinner (I swear we do more than just eat...wait no that's all we do), not usually a fan of Thai food (or so I thought) but it was really good! Even though half the time I had no idea what I was eating, that’s probably actually why I liked it…

We went to St. Martin-in-the-fields church for a concert of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons. Andrea obviously really liked it…

It was AMAZING! It was the coolest old church and considering our only view was of the ceiling (cheapest seats = no view of the musicians, is that even legal?) so just sitting and looking at this amazing detailed building listening to Vivaldi and Mozart and Bach I felt like calling up my carriage and powdering my wig.

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Coolest old Piano Forte!

Inside the church

The acoustics were amazing in this church, so good that everyone in the whole room heard Grace drop her water bottle. Awesome.  :)

Afterwards we went out in Trafalgar Square where it was HOPPIN. Pretty much everything comes alive at night here no matter what day it is.

Was in awe when this man came running up to us but was not expecting this:


“Excuse me! Excuse me! Do you want to know the funniest thing? Everybody LOVES me!”


Highlight.

September 3

Hypo-Heat-Stroke-Thermia.


After class today we went and read Jane Austen in Hyde Park (did I mention Pride and Prejudice was supposed to have been read…) I was feelin good until the clouds came…then I got cold so I put my jacket on…for .002 seconds until the sun came back out and roasted me alive…until the clouds came back over and it dropped 300 degrees in 2 seconds….only to spike to Arabian Desert temperatures in 3 more seconds.

To solve this problem: fall asleep after only reading 5 pages. Awesome.

Arnolfini Portrait - Van Eyck

-Went to the National Gallery and saw some amazing art! Van Eyck = my favorite artist of the week. The detail he included in these small oil paintings are seriously unreal. Most smashing part of the day.

-Went to the Hyde Park Stake YSA dance. They were playing techno…until we walked in. Then they started playing REALLY bad old American music I think just to cater to us. Finally they realized it was a bad move and put on their stuff and I loved all of it. Way fun even though our huge group of girls made up most of the crowd. These really nice boys offered to walk us all home since the tube was closed. Little did we know they meant go on a Pioneer Trek that took 45 minutes! They were really cool though and told us our British Accents sounded like Austrailian (not a cool part). Sam is the one I talked to the most and was really funny, served his mission in Paris WITH Grace’s cousin and 5 other people we know. SMALL WORLD when it comes to Mormons. He does a talk show with his brother? SafeRadio. Look it up.

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Repped the Jazz shirt. Don't even worry.

Rock n' Roll was the theme. I think Jenna portrayed that effectively.

September 2

Hogwarts, and you’d be Slytherin.
It’s weird to eat, sleep, AND go to class all in the same building, but I kind of like it! Classes were so fun today, it really got me excited for the semester! Weird I know, but actually being able to see everything you’re studying. So cool!

Went to a store to buy school supplies. Definitely liking that all of us were super cheap when it came to school supplies, not so cheap when it came to shopping at Primark after. I was in Heaven.

Shayla this one's for you.

Trying to use my non-existent ASL skills to sign to Mike on skype (my very first time!) since my computer decided it doesn’t want to have speakers anymore. Help! (but not like the Beatles song.)

September 1st!

Woke up to the sight of London. Woke up to 1 million different alarm clocks going off. Woke up to 1 million more after everyone hit snooze. Only thing that got me out of bed? Graces Vogue September Issue falling on my head. Thank you Grace.

our room! really clean... Yes I am the CHIEF of this room. Everyone calls me Master.

First Day of Class = Find all these places in London. Do-able.

Not part of class or apparently in Molly’s personal moral compass: Sneak into the Grace Kelly exhibit thinking Molly was behind you to turn around and see that she’s not. And you’re alone. Lost in the Victoria & Albert museum.


(Luckily I’m my own GPS, found them in no time…...whaa?)
Also not part of class:
JERSEY BOYS. Thank you Four Seasons. Thank you Broadway.

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Molly Me Devri Grace

Mackenzie, Morgan, Devri, Olivia, Grace, Molly

National Gallery (2nd home)

Harrods!!

Tube Masters