Hey everyone,
Another busy few days...more awesome experiences. On Saturday we went to Stratford-Upon-Avon and Warwick Castle (pronounced War-ick). They were about 3+ hours bus ride from London, so it was a long day. Stratford was a beautiful little English town...oh, and Shakespeare was born there. We toured the town and had lunch (fish and chips obviously), and then headed off to Warwick Castle. The castle was absolutely amazing. It's 1000 years old, and is exactly what you'd expect from a castle. Look at facebook pics for my details!
Anyway, as we all know, Super Bowl Sunday was this past Sunday, and I'm not lying when I say that Britons don't care about American football in the least (or understand it for that matter). Needless to say, there are enough Americans here that we had to get to a restaurant/bar at 6.30pm to get a seat for the game (game time=11.30pm). Anyway, the game/atmosphere/result was all fantastic. After the game ended, it was about 4am. The tube was closed, and my 4 friends and I really didn't want to navigate the buses home, so we decided to go stroll around London till 6am when the tube opens. On our walk, we went to Trafalgar Square, which was like a block away, and then down "the Mall" to Buckingham Palace. Outside of Buckingham Palace was a group of 4 guys, mid 20's, throwing an American football around, all wearing different NFL jersey's (one of them being a Rodgers jersey!). So we talked to them, and realized they are from outside of London in a smaller town, and picked teams at the beginning of the year to support. Now they know very, very little about American football, and picked their team mostly off of places in the US they've been, or the mascot. They watched games every week, and for the playoffs they've been taking a train into London to watch at bars here. They were awesome!! we talked about literally everything, from the objective and strategy of American football, to which football club we should support here...it was a blast (you can see on my facebook that Tom is not very happy that I support Chelsea, as he supports Arsenal). Anyway, we eventually got back to the dorms around 630am, and Monday began.
Going back to Saturday now...Saturday night, someone who lives in the flat above us was making a bath, and forgot about it. Needless to say, it flooded...through the ceiling and into our bathroom and hallway. It literally sounded like it was raining inside...is was horrible. We told the dorm people about the problem, but they were caught up dealing with the fire alarms going off in the dorm next door to mine, so they kind of forgot our problem (the kid who flooded the tub cleaned everything up, or so we thought). Then yesterday I got back from exploring the town, and my bedroom lights weren't working...or the bathroom lights...or kitchen...or hallway. The water that came through the ceiling had shorted everything out, so I was left in the dark, with a potential fire hazard on my hands. Not wanting to take any risks, after talking with my dad, I booked a room in the Holiday Inn Express next door, and spend the night there. By the time I got back from class today, everything had been fixed, so it's all good now.
Now today, we got to go tour Stamford Bridge, where the Chelsea Football Club plays. It was soo cool! We got to go all through the stands, in the press box, the press room where player and coach's interviews take place...we even got to go into both locker rooms! The visiting room is shit (pardon my language). It's so small, and has hard, wooden benches. Also, the cubbies are under the benches in hope that a player may injure themselves when reaching down to get things out of their cubby...no lie. The home locker room is soo nice, state-of-the-art, amazing. And the coolest part, all the players jersey's were hanging in front of their locker. I saw where some of the best footballers in the world get ready for a game, including Drogba, Malouda, Terry, Lampard, Anelka...and of course Torres, the man that Chelsea just got through the transfer window from rival Liverpool for £50 million...and they pay him £284,000 a week for the last 13 games! not bad to kick a little ball around the pitch for a while lol. But everything about the tour was great, I'm so glad I went. Pictures will be up on facebook soon, my camera is just charging currently.
Hope all is well, and I will blog again shortly
Cheers
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