London, Dublin, and Las Fallas

Well hello there.

So London was amazing. I love it. So beautiful and so many things to see. The accents there are great and everyone is so nice. I can't even explain how much fun I had and how I wished that I was doing the Literature in London Program. I love London and can not wait to go back at some point in my life.


So we left friday afternoon and arrived to London. We got to our hostel where a pipe had been broken in our room so we got switched to another hostel. I was a little pissed because I picked a hostel in the district my sister told me to and then it didn't work anyway. The other hostel was nice and it wasn't in a bad location. It just wasn't where we were expecting to be. We went out to dinner and it was really yummy. The next day I had a panic attack because I lost my passport but turns out it was at the restaurant. Thankgod. So all is well with that.

Saturday we woke up and went around the city, we saw the London Eye, Big Ben, Parliament, Buckingham Palace, Tower of London, Tower Bridge, Kings Cross Station and other random things. We had a really good time and enjoyed seeing the city. I also fulfilled one of my lifelong dreams that day, standing on platform 9 3/4. It was great to finally do it. Sunday we got up and went to tour again. We saw Changing of the Guards at the Palace and went to Hyde Park, Covent Market, Picadilly Circus, and Oxford Street. At Hyde Park, I saw the Peter Pan Statue, which has been another dream of mine. So yay. I travled and did 2 things on my to do list for my life.

Monday morning we got up super early to catch our 6:30 am flight to Dublin. Well our train was late and we ended up missing our flight. We had to pay 71 euros to get on the next one. Luckly we did not miss that one and we arrived in Dublin safely. All went well there. We napped and then walked around the city. There is not that much to do in Dublin and next time I go to Ireland, I want to go to the countryside. Dublin reminded me a lot of the USA but that could be because there were so many Americans there for St Patrick's Day. Anyway, that day we went to the Guiness Storehouse. That was cool and fun. We got to pull our own pint of Guiness for free and drink it for free. Of course I didn't drink the whole think since it was so digusting. Haha. Anywway after that we went back to the hostel for a nap because it was about 8pm. We ended up falling asleep and never getting up because we were so tired. We slept in until 10 am on Tuesday.

We went into town for St Patrick's Day. We watched the parade, which was really cool, and then went to St Patricks Cathedral and Christ Church Cathedral. A lot was closed because of the "holiday". There was so many people there. The streets were just crowded. It was a good time though. We went back to the hostel and got ready to enjoy the night out on St Patrick's Day. I know everyone will be sad when I say this but, I didn't get drunk. We drink just not enough to get drunk. We met some IRish boys and talked to them for awhile and then went back to get some sleep. We arrived at the airport early and did not miss our flight. We arrived safely in Valencia.

Now as I have talked about, this is the week of Las Fallas here. The huge festival were they have floats just all over the streets and at the end they burn them. The city population goes from 800,000 to 3 million. Anyway so last night I went out with Kaitlyn and we watched the fireworks. Today was the last day and they burned them. The streets were so crazy last night and there are so many people. It is not as cool as I thought it would be.

Today I layed out in the sun for about 2 hours because it was 74 and then went and saw Marley and Me in spanish with Kaitlyn and her host mom. It was nice. I have a lot of homework to finish before I have to go back to school on monday. I guess I forgot to mention that my host parents are on vacation right now so my host sister has been cooking for me. I feel bad but oh well. Other than that not much is new. London is the best place I have ever been in my life.

I will write soon. Let me know if you have any questions about my trips.

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