Believe it or not...I'm still alive

Midway through week three in England and after starting my job this past monday, I have indeed survived! Aside from the crampingly small bathroom, where I literally have bruises from knocking my knees and elbows while moving about, everything is A-ok. This past weekend we had the chance to go out for the firs time and experience London nightlife at its fullest. We made friends with the USC EUSA student and went out with them for Tyler's birthday on Friday night. We're all about the good deals to save cash so naturally we hit up the free bars and club and they turned out to be great! Cover charge here is ridiculous...anywhere from $20-40 american! The first place we went to was insane. Next thing you know this white, dorky looking guy with a greased up comb-over do and full on suit busts out on stage and starts rapping to a remix of the Jungle Book (good choice!!!). We were laughing so hard...not because of how ridiculous he looked but how amazing he was!


After that we moved on to some pubs and ended up getting a reserved table at a cocktail bar because it was Tyler's birthday. Eventually we moved on to this legit club where apparently Sam Ronson (aka Lindsey Lohan's ex...slash maybe back together??) was DJing...the tabloids the next day said that Lindsey was in London with her so she must have been there! After I fell off of a step in the club and fell flat on my face while I was searching around for everyone and completely embarrassed myself we started to head home. On the way back to Nido we stopped by the "food & wine" place to get a 1 pound pizza (deal!) and as I returned to my room I looked out the window and noticed that the sun was starting to emerge in the distance...bedtime!
Night: success.

Sunday we went to the British Museum and I saw the Rosetta Stone and many other super old things... It was really cool but, honestly, I don't know how to write about a museum and make it sound incredible?? But it was, you have my word.Moving on. Work started Monday and I love it! We're in the middle of planning an event lecture and workshop that is at the end of June. Its based around the Olympics and the aftermath...as many Olympic venues have failed after the games ended. The goal of this conference is to bring awareness to issues that are linked to the Olympics through Non-profit and Societal organizations so that they have a say in how things are run when 2012 approaches. London Civic Forum is a small organization but we work with thousands of other non-profits. They invited me to go to a press conference to hear the Major, Boris Johnson, speak on the Olympics BUT the stupid underground transportation unions (tube) decided to strike because they're selfish and "demented" as Boris said, so I couldn't make it to the press conference :-( I was really bummed but I get to hear him speak next week too! The tube strike is incredibly annoying and it makes it a nightmare to travel. It took me 2 hours to get to work via bus this morning and I dont work that far away. Lame. That aside everything else is just peachy OH and I got accepted to University of Kent in Canterbury for the fall...FINALLY! Time to run, i'm about to go watch the England futbol game (soccer, not american football...I WISH!) at a local pub. Should have brought my jersey.


TTFN,
V