Past Events

Since the last time I updated a few things have happened. Awhile ago I went to Chinatown with Paige and Kinne for some Chinese food which was absolutely delicious.  The next day I went to a place called Mahiki's which is a bar where Prince William and Harry have been! It was a pretty classy place and even wearing a dress I felt a little underdressed. The cheapest drink there was £9 and the most expensive I believe was £5500 for a bottle of wine, not even joking. The atmosphere was enjoyable though with everything having a tiki sort of feel, waitresses in nice beach dresses and playing surprisingly good music. I split a drink that came in a pineapple! So we could've eaten it afterward. We danced for awhile and called it a night. Couple days after that I went to a little Mexican restaurant with Paige and Sam that was quite nice, cheap too, in Covent Gardens.

Last week I mostly worked hard on my projects trying to figure out how to proceed with my book project and painfully thinking about this viral campaign project I have. We had our tutor group on thursday and we all talked about our ideas and just how hard it is to come up with something entertaining, smart, and fun. Christian, my new tutor, is the one who gave us the brief for the project so it's nice to work closely with him but I feel it's also more pressure because he expects more from us. I presented an idea about an animation I had made but it didn't go over too well because he thought it would be too comical and not relate to the show, but he did enjoy my illustrations. Now I'm starting back at square one and am losing time, we'll see what I come up with.

This past Saturday I went to Cambridge! I met up with the girls from York so that was really fun to see them all again and explore the city. Cambridge is only about 45 minutes away from London by train so it made for a nice day trip. The architecture was absolutely fabulous and it was everywhere you looked. We first went into the library at King's College which i unfortunately could not take pictures of but it was gorgeous and had original works by Isaac Newton on display, plus the original manuscript of Winnie the Pooh. All the books were like the fake books that people use to decorate their homes except they were real. They had rolling ladders like in Beauty and the Beast and beautiful high ceilings. After that we headed to lunch at a quaint little place called Tattie's and had some panini's to keep us going. We walked down the main street after that and into the center market where I bought the most delicious marshmallow flump covered in powdered sugar, most people were disgusted by it because its looks were similar to a pig intestines and it became a running joke. We then went to King's College chapel which was absolutely breath-taking. I'm sure I studied it it Art History. The fan-vaults were gorgeous and the stained glass windows were beautiful. The chapel took centuries to be completed and you can see the evidence of different periods by looking at the stonework. After taking it all in there, we walked around the rest of the campus grounds. It was beyond any College I've ever seen, everything looked like a castle or it was identical to Hogwarts.

After being jealous of everyone that went to King's College and had wandered around their grounds we continued down the main street of town. We ended up going to The Fitzwilliam museum which was full of paintings and sculptures, I saw a few Monet's and Cezanne's that I recognized. Sadly when we were through with that I had to make my trek back to the train station and come back to London. It was a short day trip but enjoyable none the less.

This morning I had a meeting with Sue at school, who's there to help us with all the book making we are  doing. I think I have a pretty solid idea of what I'm doing now and just have to execute it. I may even get to use the laser cut printer we have, we'll see. I'll post pictures when the work becomes a little more developed.

I'm going to add some videos from Cambridge soon so check those out if you want!