Soggy Nugs

Last night we went on the London EYe and it was INCREDIBLE! It was a very clear night, and you could see for miles. All 25 of us went up in one capsule and took lots of pictures, then went out to dinner at a really great Italian restaurant, Prezzo. huge portions and plenty to share. Then we took the tube to Picadilly to go to a club, but nearly everywhere wanted 10 pounds to get in, so we said no thank you and Haley, Eliz and I went back to Redcliffe (where a lot of the kids in the program live) and just hung out together. We tried to go into a convenience store to buy some beer for everyone and when I asked if we could, the manager simply said "Hymus Flimus" (or something to that effect). It was the only thing he would say to us, so of course it has become a new staple catch phrase with our friends.

This morning we got up and went to the Brick Lane market in the rain. It was still really cool though. Inside giant warehouses were stalls containing food from all over the world that was being prepared right in front of us. Chinese, sushi, ethiopian vegetarian (didn't know that existed), crepes, everything! We sampled a lot of it, and looked around at everything else for sale. It was a lot like GoodWill, with all kinds of eccentric things, only much of it was overpriced. Haley, Chad and I came across a man representing artists who was selling sweatshirts with kittens on them though, and when we found out we could get a group deal, of course we bough matching ones. I'm not sure I'll ever wear it in public, but it is VERY soft Turkist cotton (apparently those Turks know their cotton, maybe he was lying to make a sale, who knows). In any case, it was good for lots of laughs when people found out that we had actually purchased them. There was lots of artwork for sale, thrift stores, anything you could think of. We headed home around 3 though, since we've heard that it gets a little dodgy there after dark.

3 of the Tube lines are down this weekend for construction, and on top of that, there were severe delays on the one we needed to take home becuase of "signal issues". It took us about an hour to go 3 stops, so we hopped off and the 8 girls split up and just took cabs the rest of the way.

In reference to the title, Eliz grossed us all out by eating chicken nuggets she had leftover from breakfast on the tube ride home - which we promptly dubbed her "soggy nuggs". In other nug news, everywhere here people put their children in strollers with these sleeping bag/pod like looking things to keep them warm, and Haley and I have decided that it would be a good business venture when we return to the states since we have never seen them there. We're thinking either "Tod Pods" for Toddler, or Nug Pods, since the kids look like little nuggets once they're safely inside. :)

Scheduling our classes here was an absolute nightmare. They let us loose in a big room to try and figure it out, only for us to find that they didn't have updated schedules for us to look at! I have my first day of work tomorrow, followed by class at 3, so I'm sure I'll have lots to write about tomorrow. Tonight we're going out with our housemates for dinner at our local pub called The Champion - it has soft couches and stuff to sit on, and kind of reminds me of Central Perk in Friends. Stay tuned for my first day as a fashionista! (Yea right - that'll never happen; more like throwing myself into a sea of fashion without a life raft. Luckily, I'm very good at treading water.)