6:30 - run in Hyde Park
8:00 - breakfast
9:30 - class
This week consisted of what can only be described as a highlighted tour of what to expect this semester. From roughly ten to noon we follow our professors around museums while rapidly taking notes as they explain Classicism and the Renaissance through art and architecture. Once we start our legitimate classes our group of forty-one girls (zero boys) will be divvied up into our prospective classes, so it won't be a massive group taking up the entirety of the exhibition rooms.
After class we are set lose on the city till dinner at 5:30.
Our evenings after dinner are also ours as well to do as we wish.
So what does one do with such copious amounts of free time in the city that is the cross roads of the world?
Portobello Road.
Street markets,
Where there are so many flower stands.
Fresh flowers are my favorite!
Eat good food.
Note this delicious Tapas Bar
Geek out over British movies you love.
The travel store bookshop in Notting Hill with Hugh Grant and Julia Roberts
See plays on the West End
And enjoy what the city has to offer.
The Lumiere Lights
For this week only, from the 13th to the 16th, London hosted the Lumiere Lights; they asked several local artists to create works of art around the city that toyed with light. From Covent Gardens to Piccadilly Square to Trafalgar Square you would be greeted by something extraordinary.
The above was from Piccadilly Square and below was Kings Cross and Covent Gardens.
All in all there is just so much to do, it just comes down to when you're going to do it! Every day I find something new that is wonderful and something new to explore.
I am so full of gratitude for the opportunity I have to be living and studying here in London with BYU and I do not intend to waste a moment!
xoxo
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