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London is pretty kick ass. I'm here for three whole days, which is nice. Last night was the first time I slept more than 4 hours in one night since they day I arrived. Glorious, I tell you. Bess, who's already been studying in London for a couple of months, was my tour guide last night. We went to the Sherlock Holmes Museum at 221B Bakers street, which was a hoot. They've recreated their entire flat, and you can sit in Sherlock and John's chairs and wear the hats and the pipe and the whole shebang. We took a lot of pictures XD Then we walked to the actual flat where they film BBC Sherlock and basically flailed around for a while exclaiming about how brilliant Benedict Cumberbatch is. It was everything I ever imagined and more ;]

I met up with some UW kids from my German program and we say Les Mis at the Queen's Theatre and it blew me away. It's not my typical kind of musical (I prefer modern/1990 to today shows) but the entire production was fantastic. I can't believe I actually just saw Les Mis, in London. Whaaat? The area of the theatre, Picadilly Circus, is a bit like London's Time Square. It's a theatre district, has lots of lights, a Chinatown, all that jazz. The weather's been great (shorts. yuss.) so it was bustling, which I loved.

Bess went to Switzerland early this morning, so I was on my own again for today and tomorrow. I took the tube to Buckingham palace and walked around what felt like half of London! I went to Buckinham, saw tons of war memorials and commemorative statues (for New Zealand, Australia, the West Indies, from WWI & WWII, etc. all beautiful and a bit haunting), Big Ben, Trafalgar Square, Parliament, the London Eye, Hyde Park, and more I'm sure. I'm just rubbish with names sometimes. Tomorrow I'm going to try to hit up some museums, then SCROOBIUS PIP CONCERT AHHHH. I'm so pumped!

My hostel's great, again. It's in Earl's Court, which must be a pretty affluent area, because literally everyone drives either a Jaguar, Mercedes, or BMW and the apartments look like mansions. Rock on. I've met cool people at each place so far too. I helped a guy from Kenya last night find the place, there were tons of cool British people in my room at Edinburgh, and awesome guys from Portugal and Australia in Köln. Can't wait to meet all the international/German people in my dorm, where our only common language will be Deutsch!