Another day in London....

On Friday, we ventured into London once again. I had no real responsibilities today so Adam and I were free to wander wherever. Thus, we ended up at the Tate Modern. The Tate Modern is London's National Gallery of Modern Art and conveniently enough, it is free. The picture above is the entrance to the 4 story factory converted to a gallery.

An Elegant Masquerade at a Castle

Thursday evening there was a masquearede planned in the Ballroom at the castle. The original intention was to have a nice evening of ballroom dancing in semi0formal garb. This lastd for about half an hour, it then degraded into dance music Birtney Spears style. There was a good DJ there and the students seemed to have a ton of fun dancing and hanging out. The above picture is me (with my authentic Batman mask) and Simon with a sock around his face. Fun times....

So...here I am again, with one of my best friends while travelling... the audio guide. I was sitting on a nice leather couch at the Tate Modern and I was listening to a track entitled Yoko Ono's Cough Track. Apparently Yoko was pretty into Modern Audio Art before she began to hang with Johnny Lennon. This track was absolutely ridiculous! It was about 3 minutes of someone coughing (I'm assuming it was Yoko). it was very heartfelt and touching. It reminded me of...well.. being sick. Awesome. And when I say awesome, i mean awful. We continued to wander around the gallery and I admired many Picassos and some sculptures by Louise Bourgois. The highlight of the gallery was the Andy Warhol collection which included his Marilyn Monroe and Elvis pictures. The Tate Modern is an amazing place to visit, especially for the price! I didn't get to see everything I wanted so I need to go back.

Every time we go on a filed studies trip we pack bag lunches in the morning. Everytime I pack my lunch I make the same thing. It is composed of a Meat Melange Wrap (Includes every type of meat available all wrapped up), a Kit Kat bar (which are AMAZING here), an Orange Drink Box, an Apple, and a bag of Walkers Crisps.

JIF - Potato Chips are called Crisps

The above picture captures what I am often doing here....which is eating Walker's Crisps. (In fact, I am eating some Walker's right now as I sit and write this blog). I loved this bridge when I came across it. It is called the Millenium Bridge, and is a footbridge that was built as a celebration to the millenium. It stretches across the Thames and leads directly to my favorite site in London...St.Paul's Cathedral.

The British Museum is Big.

After the Tate Modern, Adam and I crusied on over to the British Museum...also free!!!!!! There's Adam cruising in to the front gates. (Blue Jacket and shoulder bag)

The British Museum as there was tons to look at. One of the more interesting little exhibits was one showing how many drugs the average person takes in their life time. There was a huge long glass table, and inside the table were thousands and thousands of pills. Underneath the pills were captions and photographs of the life of a person. It began with pictures at birth with some pills that a baby may take and ended with a picture of the man's funeral. All along the way it showed the different pills that the person took. Sometimes it was due to Asthma, broken bones, whatever. ABout 70% of the pills though were taken after the age of bout 65. It was really fasincating to see the sheer number of pills put in the average person's body. They did it for both males and females. Interesting stuff.

Jeff's "I wish I was a statue" Exhibition

There were many cool statues at the Royal Museum. I was getting sort o fbored of just wandering around so I decided I would do a little montage of photos. So, here it is Jeff's First Annual "I wish I was a Statue" Exhibition.

Aphrodite
performed by Jeff

Adam and Annetter at the overlooking the main hall in the Royal Museum.

JIF - Any word that ends in an "A" is pronounced "ER", thus I call Annetta...Annetter. Which has subsequently been shortened to Netter.

Random No Hand Guy
performed by Adam

I'm Embarassed That You Are Doing This Here
performed by Netter

Apollo
performed by Jeff

Some Weird 4-Legged Things
performed by Jeff

Some Sort of Lion
performed by Jeff

The Discus
performed by Jeff

Venus
performed by Netter

Saturday In Londonio

The next day was another day in London. This time I had most of the day to wander around by myself then go to a matinee of Macbeth.

My second favorite thing to photograph. Good ol Big Ben!

Once again... my obsession with St.Paul's. IT was a really beautiful day and I was chillin by myself and couldnt stop taking pictures.

Here it is... Shakespeare's Globe. This its reconstructed form of course. It was burned down way back. I snuck inside and took a tour of a Shakespeare exhibition that happens off of the lobby. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to get into the theatre itself. It was really interesting to see it after extensively studying it with my good friend Judy Fisher in Drama 210. It has an open roof so it has performances seasonally. I really hope I can go see a show there in April when it gets warmer.

One of the coolest palces to stand in London. At the end of the Millenium Bridge looking down at St.Paul's. It is very cool.

I continued to randomly walk down the shore of the Thames by myself when I came across the rather large ship. I walked onto it and looked around. There were little cabins with beds and i took a little lie down in them. Then someone came walking up out of a cabin and gave me a funny look and said... "what are you doing here????" Apparently the boat was closed and I shouldn't have been on it. Needless to say they booted me out.

The next free thing I came across was SOuthwark Cathedral. Any building in Canada doesn't even come close to the wonder of these cathedrals. But once you have seen one... they all look very similar. There were tons of tourists here eating lunch, so i decided to break out the Walkers crisps and a wrap and join them.

Here I am standing on London Bridge taking a peek at the oh so pretty Tower Bridge.

I was at first wondering why there were all the Bobbies hanging around, until I looked down the street and saw a huge parade approaching. It was a globilzation protest. Mostly it was against Bush and America. There were many signs that said "Bush - Number One Terrorist" and other such things. It was quite the spectacle.

Ahhh...look at the Bobbies with their funny hats and bright jackets.

JIF - All police men wear jackets like crossing guards