Midterms are over!

Let me start with the 4th of July. They threw us a BBQ with delicious burgers, kebabs, corn on the cob, watermelon, etc. There was lots of red white and blue decorations, though our silly TAs threw in some hats with the british flag on them! Then one of the TAs got up and read the Declaration of Independence! It was pretty funny. Then a couple of us went to movie night hosted by the TAs. We watched Independence Day...which isn't the best "4th of july" movie, but hey it's will smith, makes you feel like america right? about halfway through the movie(maybe 11:30 pm-ish), we started hearing really loud noises and even flashes of light. We thought we were imagining things. One girl ran outside to see what was going on. She ran back up and yelled that there were fireworks. fireworks! none of us were expecting that here! we got so excited we ran downstairs, outside, across pembroke's campus...without shoes on. we caught the very top of one of the explosions so we kept running, outside the gates and practically across town (still barefoot) before we ran into a bunch of other people from our program. apparently the fireworks were set off from a barge on the river. but we had basically only caught the very last one. so we got fireworks. and very black dirty feet!

Finally, pictures from my London Day Trip!

Saturday morning we left for London bright and early. I went with a group to the Imperial War Museum, it was pretty cool but we only had two hours which was not enough time to go through all the exhibits. There was one really interesting spy exhibit in particular. They had actual spy equipment dating back to the first world war. a lot of the information was released for the first time for this exhibit! Then we were dropped off in front of big ben, we grabbed a quick lunch and then got on a boat for a river cruise on the Thames. we sat on the top and had great views, but it was ridiculously windy. then we planned to go to Westminster Abbey but it was closed to visitors early on Saturday. I was bummed. so we went off in search of dinner. we ended up at a great italian chain restaurant called "pizza express". it was fancier than the name implies! (why is all the best food i've had in the UK italian???) After that we got to see a live performance of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" at Shakespeare's Globe Theater. That was really really cool. We had cheap seats, behind a pole, practically behind the stage, but it was still fun. the best place to be is actually standing, but we were so tired from walking around all day i don't think i would have made it. the play was hilarious, the actors were fantastic.

I added some more to my album ofCambridge Photos too.

I turned in my film midterm and my creative writing midterm today. i've been pretty much locked in my room for the past three days working on them though. tonight is another formal dinner which will be fun!