Exploring London - 04 Sept 2007
Hello Everyone,
My email list was a little screwed up last time but I have been given some emails to add and found a few I thought I had on this list already. Everything should set now! I have really enjoyed hearing from the many of you that have emailed me and hearing how everything is in your lives. Things are still good here in London. My other roommate got here this week and she is really awesome. Her name is Stephanie and she is from San Francisco. So far she is a lot easier to live with than the other girl in the suite, so it should be a good year!
Steph is in, time for the obligatory roomies at Big Ben picture!Work is a lot more intense now, I am constantly doing something on the computer. Everything I do revolves around using spreadsheets in Excel or waiting for email confirmations of thing to do with spreadsheets in Excel. It is really amazing how much you can learn in few weeks!
Anyway, things have been really crazy around here between work and getting to know other people in the program so I just recently have had a chance to finally see more of the city than what is right around us. The weekend before last they had what is called the Notting Hill Carnival. Notting Hill is one of the nicest areas in the city of London and the whole area gets shut down for the weekend to hold this massive Caribbean festival complete with costumes, floats and Jerk Chicken. It is supposedly the biggest street fair in the world except for Carnival in Rio, Brazil as almost 2 million people showed up! I have never seen so many people in my life, it took almost 20 minutes just to cross a street! In the end it was a lot of fun though and it was definitely something interesting to see.
Notting Hill CarnivalThis last weekend we finally got to go see some of the tourists area and walked about 6 miles to the opposite side of the city. London is a really beautiful place this time of year, we have even been lucky enough to have it sunny most of the time (something really rare here)!
Trafalgar SquareHope all is well and talk to you soon!
Sean
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