Wednesday, November 06, 2002

Hey! I'm not sure how many people are reading this anymore, but I'll give those of you who are a summary of what I've been up to since 17 October. So that weekend, I went with a friend from San Diego to Leeds. That was fun, and it was neat to get out of London and breathe clean air (as well as see another part of England). It's also really pretty up in Leeds because they have trees and grass that aren't restricted to royal parks. For Halloween, my friends and I dressed up and went to Leicester Square, where no one else was dressed up. I figured since a british guy suggested that we dress up, that most people here do, but nope, they don't. So I walked around for a bit with a plastic grass skirt on, but I eventually took the skirt off (i had skate pants on underneath, don't worry.) Then I went to Stonehenge and Salisbury this past weekend. I'm glad I went to Stonehenge, and was able to see it, since I had wanted to see it since I was really young, but it really wasn't as spectacular as I thought it was going to be. Also, since I forgot my umbrella on my bed (i took it out of one bag, but didn't transfer it to my other one), being soaking wet all day put a damper on the trip. Well, only the outside of my courderoy jacket was soaking, it didn't get through the fleece, which was nice. Sunday night was good as well because Harrods put on an early Bonfire night (aka Guy Fawkes Night/Day) fireworks display. It was awesome, some of the best fireworks I'd ever seen. They had it on for 15 minutes, and had like 10 finales, the fireworks just kept coming, and they were "coreographed" (sp?) to James Bond music (Harrods is all decked out in Christmas and James Bond stuff at the moment, since the film's coming out here on 20 November). After the fireworks, Harrods started to snow, well, they have machines that shoot out bubbles, like dishwashing soap type bubbles, but they smelled like the scrubbing bubbles to clean the bathroom at home. That was really fun as well. Last night I hung out with my friends for my birthday, and I caught a glimpse of some fireworks from my window. Ok, i've taken a lot of pictures since, but i haven't had time to edit them to make them smaller so they fit on my webpage, speaking of which, since the last files were so big, I have to start another webpage for my pictures. No worries though, it'll be easy, another yahoo one. I think that's about it. I have to get going to training for work because they want me to work at Harrods, and I have to know what to say in the interview there (which means, I'm going to have to BS, but my friend who got a job there, Emma, said they didn't ask her too many questions where she had to lie. Cheers!