London Calling!!

London Loves!!! Last weekend I had an amazing adventure in London! Such a faboosh city! Def tops my list of fab 5! So to begin my adventure, we had a group of 6 of us going. Well 4 of the girls decided to take the plane to London from a tiny airport an hour away and my friend and I decided to take the train from Paris. Paris is about an hour and a half from Angers where we study. My friend and I immediately left class at noon to catch a train to Paris and then the train from Paris to London. We had only a little time in London until our next train so we had to book our booties! Well I never thought to remind my friend to bring her passport and she forgot it L Well there was nothing left for her to do but take the train all the way back to Angers and fly to London the next day. Well there I was wanting to shizz myself not having expected to go to London by myself! I was absolutely freakin haha! The train ride was pretty dang cool though; we went under the English Channel! After an hour and a half I arrived in London to an absolute adorbs train station with the Olympic rings hanging high! Too cute! I then try to take a taxi, I had never seen such adorbs taxis but oh shizz I totes forgot they drive on the other side of the road so I was def freaking out! When we got to my hostel (which happens to be a pub/hostel) I had totes forgotten to exchange my euros for pounds and the driver only wanted pounds! The hostel owner who totally looked like Russel Brand came out and said in an adorbs Brittish accent “that’s alright love just hop on over to the ATM across the street and I’ll pay him for you now”. Yep that’s right he actually paid the driver for me while I got the money out of the ATM, I was so shocked, in France I would have gotten so much shizz for that! I ended up spending the night in the pub (the girls didn’t arrive until 10pm and I had gotten there at 6pm) hanging with British guys and watching the Olympics. The next day we saw the London Eye (Ferris Wheel), Big Ben, Buckingham Palace, and Westminster Abbey. Oh my gosh everything was too cute and looked right out of the movies! London was crawling with volunteers for the Olympics so we got around wonderfully and the people were so kind and friendly! At Buckingham Palace we were able to watch the Olympic speed walking event, too funny! We didn’t get to see the changing of the guards due to the Olympics though L The Abbey was probably my favorite thing (because of the royal wedding of course!) it was absolutely stunning inside and had more history than I’d seen in my life! It was incredible seeing the tombs of Queen Elizabeth the first and the place where princess Diana was laid to rest. That afternoon we had incredible fish and chips and tried to get into Olympic park. It didn’t really work out haha. London was incredible but the Olympics were quite unorganized, it was incredibly hard to get tix just for the park! We were able to see one of the Olympic runners for Britain who had just won bronze! So fab! He even had his medal around his neck! Afterwards we went shopping at Topshop! I of course had to go there for my bestie Megan! Holly shizz this Topshop was on Oxford Street and was 4 stories big complete with a Dj, hair salon, nail salon, beauty shop and more! It was almost too faboosh, I got lost several times haha! After dinner that night we decided to go to a club, well the club was sort of a bust, so not faboosh! The drinks were uber expensive and when we complained, the owner was sups rude! We decided next time to go to a more local club. Our last day in London we rode the eye! So fab! We were able to see a couple Olympic stadiums from above and the Olympic marathon on the bridge near Big Ben! Afterwards we went to Victoria Park. For the Olympics, London set up multiple viewing parks for people wanting to watch the games. At these parks there are rides, food, beer, giant screen tvs and live bands. Many of the athletes actually visit people at the viewing parks! Victoria Park is the biggest viewing area and is called “London Live”. It was a really neat atmosphere and I got to dress up and wave my British flag! I was British just for the day haha J We were able to watch the marathon live and then had to catch our train L We also had a blast riding the “tube” (London metro) everywhere! So much more clean and easy to navigate than Paris! We had such a faboosh time and felt so welcome! It has def been hard being back in France! London made it so much more obvious how rude the French can be and how unwanted we feel at times! My class is still terrible and the teacher is awful! She actually snapped her fingers in people’s faces when they couldn’t answer a question! We feel humiliated constantly. It’s unfortunate since we had such a faboosh month last month! Oh well I am counting down the days for my bday with Justin in Paris and then home!!! Oh and after London, I am totes calling people love more often, its too cute!! Bisous my loves!