Saturday & Sunday June 26-27
On Saturday I woke up and went for a sweet 9 mile run at about midday. My friend Alex ran a marathon last yr and thus was able to point out some very good running loops for those longer distances! I really like running in the area..er should I say fields..surrounding Loughborough. Running in the country and not seeing any people nor roads really is so refreshing as opposed to running in the streets of Atlanta which is packed with people and bums shouting random and mostly nonsensical sayings. There are just SO many pretty trails here! It seems like every dirt trailis a public footpath leading to somewhere beautiful. Can I just transport this to Atlanta, please?! I'm sure my teammates would much appreciate it :)
On another note, I would like to somberly mention the sad loss of U.S to Ghana that ensued at 7:30pm on Saturday evening. Landon Donovan managed a goal for the U.S, but unfortunately it just wasn't enough. Ghana scored in overtime and then the game was over. Sad run for the U.S. I am not out of the pool at work :(
Sunday I woke and went to church at a cute little church about 1.5 miles away! I think there was like 30 people total in the congregation! I then talked to friends for a long while and watched the miserable England v Germany game at the student union. Absolutely devastating. Now that both my teams are out..who should I route for?? I dont care at this point!
Afterwards I played tennis for about two hours w/ Felix. Soon I'll be switching from GT cross to GT tennis ;) OK, maybe not! haha
All in all, an uneventful yet fabulous weekend excluding the football results!
Friday, June 25
Being that ALL of the students have left campus (sad), there is really nothing to do other than work, run, eat , sleep, watch football, and talk to friends. And the whole watching football and talking to friends is something I certainly do not mind! Tonight I went to a pub with Kristen, Guy,and Felix for a good bit of time. It was such a nice evening, and was very relaxing to just sit and talk for a good bit!
Being that ALL of the students have left campus (sad), there is really nothing to do other than work, run, eat , sleep, watch football, and talk to friends. And the whole watching football and talking to friends is something I certainly do not mind! Tonight I went to a pub with Kristen, Guy,and Felix for a good bit of time. It was such a nice evening, and was very relaxing to just sit and talk for a good bit!
Wednesday, June 23
Today was a great day at work being that USA won the world cup in the 2nd minute of added time over Algeria. Landon Donovan did it again! England also had a victory against Slovenia. This means I move into the second round of our pool at work. I was nearly about to cry being that U.S had lost, but my favorite Donovan yet again pulled it out in literally the last minute of the game.
I was SO motivated by this magnificent performance that I decided to go on a run to Beacon Hill (~10 miles)...well,anyway, I didn't bring a map..so naturally I got lost and probably ended up running 13-14 miles. I was SO tired and dead when I got back. However, Nat was celebrating her bday at her place and was having a BBQ that i had to attend..only because I love her! The BBQ was great with just a couple of good friends-- Nat taught me some guitar, and I've decided I'm going to buy a cheap one off if EBay when I get back to Atlanta. Unlike the piano (which is very near and dear to my heart), the guitar is so much more portable, and once I learnmy chords I should be good to go. I know progressions fairly well from years of piano theory drilled into my brain! Alas!-- this year at Georgia Tech, our apartment is right beside the music department and beach volleyball courts, so I know I will have my fill of Vball and music :)
Today was a great day at work being that USA won the world cup in the 2nd minute of added time over Algeria. Landon Donovan did it again! England also had a victory against Slovenia. This means I move into the second round of our pool at work. I was nearly about to cry being that U.S had lost, but my favorite Donovan yet again pulled it out in literally the last minute of the game.
I was SO motivated by this magnificent performance that I decided to go on a run to Beacon Hill (~10 miles)...well,anyway, I didn't bring a map..so naturally I got lost and probably ended up running 13-14 miles. I was SO tired and dead when I got back. However, Nat was celebrating her bday at her place and was having a BBQ that i had to attend..only because I love her! The BBQ was great with just a couple of good friends-- Nat taught me some guitar, and I've decided I'm going to buy a cheap one off if EBay when I get back to Atlanta. Unlike the piano (which is very near and dear to my heart), the guitar is so much more portable, and once I learnmy chords I should be good to go. I know progressions fairly well from years of piano theory drilled into my brain! Alas!-- this year at Georgia Tech, our apartment is right beside the music department and beach volleyball courts, so I know I will have my fill of Vball and music :)
Monday, June 21st
Today is the day! WIMBLEDON!! We were woken up by the sunrise at approx 5am, and groggily got up after a poor nights sleep. Felix went to get in the queue to go check in our tent/ bags being that you obv can't bring those in to Wimbledon. We got in the queue at about 7am and received our wrist bands at like 8:30. The wrist bands represented what court you had a guaranteed ticket for depedning on your place in line. We were places ~650ish and unfortunately, guarenteed tickets to center court ran out at about 600th place. Oh well! 1st court will be awesome as well!
Also while we were waiting in line, a guy came around and had us write a poem about queing up for Wimbeldon tickets. He plans to publish the poems he collects in a book that he is going to end with the phrase I suggested...Wimble.DONE. Wohoo, now I will have a published poem!!
We were able to purchase our first court tickets and ended up getting the 4th row for 1st court!!!! 4th row!!! Eeeek. Wimbldeon Tennis Club is beautiful, and the day was grogeous..not acloud in the sky! We were the first line in queue behind the "officials" (AKA really really tall people they hired to escort the crowd for the opening of Wimbledon), and it was fun talking to them about how they got their job as "Line leader @ Wimbledon" haha.
Wimbledon in itself was just beautful. We saw a match betweenMaria Kirilenko of Russia and Stefanie Voegele of some other country on one of the outer courts. We literally sat courtside for this match on the bench just outside the court. The smaller courts have very limited seating, if any at all, and it was exciting for this to be the opening match we saw. Very exciting! Maria won..barely!
From there we moved to our 4th row seats at First Court to see the match play out between Andy Roddick and Rajeev Ram, both Americans. We were SOOO close. It is crazy the speed at which they serve-- like more than 130mph crazy!
We also saw Venus Williams play!! She's a beast, as in you are sooo good at tennis sort of way. Both her and Roddick demolished their oppenents inthe least number of sets needed.
At the end of the day, a very kind lady and her husband gave us their center court tickets and we even got to see some of the match between Djokovic and Rochus!! What an AZMAZING day!!!
Sunday, June 20th
Today we woke up at like noon...maybe because we stayed up soo late playing SingStar (ey yai yaii). Anyway, we went out to lunch/ breakfast at a little pub nearby and then off we were on the Tube to Wimbledon!!! Even the Wimbledon tube stop had a mini- turf tennis court. Exciting!! Because we had planned to get excellent tickets, we decided we just HAD to campout the day before. Armed with a nice 4 person tent, some food, and a Frisbee, we set up camp in the middle of a big field and entertained ourselves with some quality converstaions, card games, and rousing games of Frisbee.Nearby there was a beautiful lake with a nice walking trail as well!
Today we woke up at like noon...maybe because we stayed up soo late playing SingStar (ey yai yaii). Anyway, we went out to lunch/ breakfast at a little pub nearby and then off we were on the Tube to Wimbledon!!! Even the Wimbledon tube stop had a mini- turf tennis court. Exciting!! Because we had planned to get excellent tickets, we decided we just HAD to campout the day before. Armed with a nice 4 person tent, some food, and a Frisbee, we set up camp in the middle of a big field and entertained ourselves with some quality converstaions, card games, and rousing games of Frisbee.Nearby there was a beautiful lake with a nice walking trail as well!
Saturday, June 19th
Although I stayed out quite late last night, Kristin and I woke up early this morning to catch the train to London. LONDON!! Felix invited me to go to Wimbledon this weekend and camp out on Sunday for the opening day (Monday). Kristen, the other intern from MIT, also came with us as did Rob. Rob was the guy who we went with to Bournemouth for the beach volleyball weekend (stayed at his house and sailed with his friends!)
Anyway, we caught the train to London at 9:20am and arrived at St. Pancras Station at approx. 11:03. Pretty good time, I'd say. The weather was slightly overcast and possibly even rainy, so we decided that the day would be a good day to go to the museums! So off we went to the National Museum of Britain! Err at least it was called something like that. Anyway, the entrance was free other than the star exhibit of Davinci's artwork. Kristen is really into art and drawing, so she paid to go see the exhibit. While she was being very worldy and artsy, Felix, Rob, and I saw stuff from Egypt, Rome, and Africa (wayy oo wayy o weii, wayy oo wayy oow weiiii wayyyy ohhh, oh Africa) good song btw :) Anyway, my camera ran out of memory like 7 pictures in, but Felix got some awesome shots of the three of us imitating the Roman statues and the wildlife of Africa. Reminded me of the movie Eurotrip when they go into the museum and do all sorts of silly things haha. When he gets those to me, I will post them up here!
After the museum we went to Notting Hill Gate (a very ritzy part of London where the movie Notting Hill was filmed...obv. enough). Felix's cousin has a flat there with a rooftop garden that overlooked the entire city!! We went to the park and played frisbee for a long while and then stopped by Tescos to pick up some burgers and buns..and salad of course. Although it was quite cold out, the sunset on top of the roof was unbelievably beautiful and we took wayyy to many pictures. The pictures that I will post are Kristen's, but Felix has a lot of really really good ones with his high tec camera. Like I said, soon to be posted!
After dinner we played quiz-bowl something or other on Wii and stayed up WAY too late playing Sing Star on Wii. Sing Star is like rock band but instead of playing instruments you sing and it matches the pitch to the pitch needed. I would say that we were all pretty evenly matched, and some of us lucky singers reached the highest level on the game! (w/ Piano Man by Billy Joel!). It was not until about 1/2 past 2 that we noticed there was a huge bus stop with a long long queue of people waiting...and naturally all of the windows were open and we were singing REALLY loud. I think they especially enjoyed my reaction when I reached SingStar Celebrity or whatever the highest level was. I was ecstatic!! Here is proof.
Although I stayed out quite late last night, Kristin and I woke up early this morning to catch the train to London. LONDON!! Felix invited me to go to Wimbledon this weekend and camp out on Sunday for the opening day (Monday). Kristen, the other intern from MIT, also came with us as did Rob. Rob was the guy who we went with to Bournemouth for the beach volleyball weekend (stayed at his house and sailed with his friends!)
Anyway, we caught the train to London at 9:20am and arrived at St. Pancras Station at approx. 11:03. Pretty good time, I'd say. The weather was slightly overcast and possibly even rainy, so we decided that the day would be a good day to go to the museums! So off we went to the National Museum of Britain! Err at least it was called something like that. Anyway, the entrance was free other than the star exhibit of Davinci's artwork. Kristen is really into art and drawing, so she paid to go see the exhibit. While she was being very worldy and artsy, Felix, Rob, and I saw stuff from Egypt, Rome, and Africa (wayy oo wayy o weii, wayy oo wayy oow weiiii wayyyy ohhh, oh Africa) good song btw :) Anyway, my camera ran out of memory like 7 pictures in, but Felix got some awesome shots of the three of us imitating the Roman statues and the wildlife of Africa. Reminded me of the movie Eurotrip when they go into the museum and do all sorts of silly things haha. When he gets those to me, I will post them up here!
After the museum we went to Notting Hill Gate (a very ritzy part of London where the movie Notting Hill was filmed...obv. enough). Felix's cousin has a flat there with a rooftop garden that overlooked the entire city!! We went to the park and played frisbee for a long while and then stopped by Tescos to pick up some burgers and buns..and salad of course. Although it was quite cold out, the sunset on top of the roof was unbelievably beautiful and we took wayyy to many pictures. The pictures that I will post are Kristen's, but Felix has a lot of really really good ones with his high tec camera. Like I said, soon to be posted!
After dinner we played quiz-bowl something or other on Wii and stayed up WAY too late playing Sing Star on Wii. Sing Star is like rock band but instead of playing instruments you sing and it matches the pitch to the pitch needed. I would say that we were all pretty evenly matched, and some of us lucky singers reached the highest level on the game! (w/ Piano Man by Billy Joel!). It was not until about 1/2 past 2 that we noticed there was a huge bus stop with a long long queue of people waiting...and naturally all of the windows were open and we were singing REALLY loud. I think they especially enjoyed my reaction when I reached SingStar Celebrity or whatever the highest level was. I was ecstatic!! Here is proof.
Friday, June 18
This was the last night that all my friends from David Collett were here, so naturally we all got together and had one last hoorah before everyone headed home for the summer.
Anyway, went to FND, and boy was it jam packed with students celebrating the close of term! SO FUN! I am seriously going to miss everyone I met SO much, and I had SOooOOoo much fun this past 1.5 months. If only I had done my undergrad studies here :P Thanks to everyone in DC for making me feel so at home-- I know most of you read this ;) Therefore, I am not going to list anyone's name because I don't want to leave anyone out-- every person I met just made me love England more :) Later on in the summer I plan to visit Ella and Becky and Kirsty and hopefully Chip in Cambridge! The fun is not over yet! Enjoy the pictures!
This was the last night that all my friends from David Collett were here, so naturally we all got together and had one last hoorah before everyone headed home for the summer.
Anyway, went to FND, and boy was it jam packed with students celebrating the close of term! SO FUN! I am seriously going to miss everyone I met SO much, and I had SOooOOoo much fun this past 1.5 months. If only I had done my undergrad studies here :P Thanks to everyone in DC for making me feel so at home-- I know most of you read this ;) Therefore, I am not going to list anyone's name because I don't want to leave anyone out-- every person I met just made me love England more :) Later on in the summer I plan to visit Ella and Becky and Kirsty and hopefully Chip in Cambridge! The fun is not over yet! Enjoy the pictures!
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