Steve Comes to Visit and Other Tales of Great Excitement!

Alright, what have you all missed in the past week or so…

Item 1: I’ve switched my class schedule up a little bit. Instead of my two history classes, I am now in two more English classes. So my schedule is:
Play and Book (Medieval plays)
Medieval Troy (study of the story of the Trojan war based off of Chaucer)
Old English (LOVING this class)
Virginia Woolf (really liking the class too and feeling nicely prepared for my discussion sessions)

Item 2: My latest adventures with Steve!
Steve came to visit as his first stop on his epic journey around the world, which was awesome. I loved having an aimless walking buddy (we may have walked about 4.5 miles to get to King’s Cross Station because – secretly – I wanted to see Platform 9 ¾, and yes, yes it is there so yes, Hogwarts DOES exist). Sadly Steve moved on to Prague to see Oz this morning. I shall miss his company but am so excited to hear all about his adventures all over the world! In the interest of space and both your time and mine, here’s a quick list of what I did while Steve was here:
- Wandered around Piccadilly Circus and saw Carnaby Street
- Went to St. Paul’s Cathedral (I’m definitely going back to go inside, it was AMAZING)
- Walked across the Millennium Bridge (gorgeous, I got excited because it’s in a scene in “Love Actually”)
- Went to the reconstructed Globe Theater (I won’t lie, this has been my favorite part of London so far – it was SO SO SO cool and I loved the exhibition)
- Went to the Tate Modern (Modern Art museum… I can only take so much modern art, but I liked it – very expansive collection and, as with all London museums, FREE!)
- Went to Brick Lane Market, Spitifields Market, and Petticoat Lane Market (all beautiful, all full of delicious food)
- Went to King’s Cross and passed some really cool parts of London on the way (please reference my photo album at http://picasaweb.google.com/Jordyn.Sims as there are some nice photos to depict our walk)

Item 3: My tentative schedule:
January Weekend 2 – homestay in Portland (small island off the Southern coast of England)
January Weekend 3 – Stonehenge trip with Queen Mary’s study abroad program
February Weekend 1 – Windsor trip with Arcadia
February Weekend 2 (my birthday!) – go to visit Caroline in Edinburgh!
February Weekend 3 – go to Bologna to see Siena and then go to Venice for Carnival!! Look for AMAZING photos from this weekend, I can’t wait!
February Weekend 4 – go visit Bryce in Copenhagen (still working out details on that one), maybe
March Weekend 1 – Christina comes to visit! Hooray!!
March Weekend 2 – Trinity Spring Break – I hope to see lots of you here, you are all welcome!!!
March Weekend 3 – bury myself in my papers
March Weekend 4 – Wales Adventure Trip with Arcadia (no idea what we’re doing, there was a picture of a kayak so I’m psyched)
APRIL – go EVERYWHERE! First Paris to see Al and Sarah, then Spain to see Greg, Kendra, and Catherine, then to Italy with Catherine, Vienna to see Oz, Berlin to Meike, maybe Sicily, maybe Dublin
April Weekend 4 – come back to do my final papers
May Weekend 1 – parents come to visit!!!!! Kendra might come then too!!
May Weekend 2 – parents leave ☹
May Week 2 – I leave and go see all you old kids from Trinity graduate, and then I go home to California for a wonderful summer of teaching swimming!!

Alright, that’s all for now! Check out the photos – there are some new ones. And I’ll let you all know how my homestay goes! I’m quite excited about it. I hope you’re all well and happy wherever in the world you are!