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Alright, I am feeling a bit discouraged at this moment in time because I just wrote an entire entry only to have it all disappear. It is just a reminder to me of how unstable words are I guess. I know that this entry will not be quite what it was before. Things I previously wrote in the lost entry will reshape themselves and be modified into something new. Alright, enough of that...
London! I have been here only a week and I feel as though I cannot share everything of the week in just this one entry. I have conquered the transportation system, found my internship, started my internship and classes, done some shopping, done a bit of a sight seeing tour (big ben, tower bridge, queue for the Harry Potter auditions, etc..), and much more.
Let’s start with the transportation. I love London transportation. Once you figure out how it works, it’s one of the greatest things you can imagine. Alright, so I shouldn’t say it’s all wonderful-I still find myself sometimes confused by the bus system. I need like a bus list thing with all the numbers and the destinations...But I love the tube. Everyone either reads or listens to music. It is the perfect place for me. And it’s so easy to understand. Color coated and all of that. Perhaps I may at some point see this as a hassle. Rush hour gets a little bit crazy as you have to smush yourself in with the weird British.
The internship now. It seems as though it is going to be an eye opening experience for me. During my interview my supervisor (a lovely Canadian) told me that if I could survive at this school I can survive working at any school back home. This means the school is a bit crazy. Though I imagine it would be how any all girls’ inner city public school would be. The girls are a bit out of hand ALL the time. It is hard to see how any work is accomplished during class time due to the endless chatter, the irrelevant questions, the brushing of hair, and the talk of boys (sounds like any middle school girl’s dream class doesn’t it?) I am working the special needs children. Here the special needs children are included in regular class time so I sit with them taking notes and helping them to pay attention and to understand. The kids that I have met so far are very sweet and are very excited to have a chat with a true American. There shall be lots of further updates here, but that’s all I’m sharing for now.
Well, there is more to report, but I’ve already written twice. So that’s it for now. E-mail me some love rosegirl64@hotmail.com