Baby It's Cold Outside! (And Inside)

You would think that since I've been here for a little over two weeks that I would be used to the cold weather, but today felt like the coldest day since I've been here! Also, our heat is still broken and last night our space heater broke while we were asleep and so we woke up freezing cold this morning! I think that they are bringing over a new space heater, so hopefully that won't be an issue too much longer. Yesterday I did a lot of homework and made dinner with my roommates (Chicken and pasta mmmm) and we watched Aladdin afterwards, which was a lot of fun, it was really nice to relax all day.

I had class this morning and we went to another concert after our lecture at a local church that had tea and cookies, which was really fun. Then we had a walking tour of the Inns of Court, which is kind of like England's version of Law School, except it's completely different haha. They're called Inns because students who were training to be barristers (aka: Lawyers) would live there while they were in "training" instead of being at a "law school" but now they are mostly just used for offices

This is a picture of part of one of the Inns of Court, apparently its used in a lot of movies!

This is one of the largest squares in London, Lincolns Inn Fields

However I didn't wear enough layers for our 2 hour walking tour around London and my hands were numb when we finished. We saw a lot of really old buildings on our tour including a church that was built in 1150 and another that was built in the 1400's which is crazy because they existed before our country was even discovered!

This is the church from the 1400's

We also passed by the shop where all of the barristers/judges get their robes and wigs (YES they still wear wigs in court here, so weird, I had no idea they still used them) and the shop was established in 1689. Sorry for the history lesson, but it was really cool! I guess it's cooler when you are actually here haha. And I promise I will start to put pictures up that I am actually in, instead of just pictures of buildings and scenery :-)

And this is a picture of their Royal Courts of Justice (aka. the court house, everything has a fancier name here haha)

After the walking tour I defrosted by going grocery shopping where I met this lady who was also grocery shopping come up to me and ask me if I would like to model for a hair cut and that she would do it for free. She said she worked at a nearby salon and I guess she felt the need to stop her grocery shopping to ask if she could cut my hair haha. Not exactly sure how to take that but she gave me her phone number, so I guess if I need a haircut maybe I'll call her, but I don't want her to chop all my hair off!

Tonight we sat in on a class in Chapel Hill that was held by telecast from London with the guest speaker Sir Christopher Meyer, who served as Ambassador of the UK to the United States from 1997 to 2003, and he wrote a book called "D.C Confidential" about being the ambassador during the time of 9/11, and he was also the former press secretary and chief spokesman for the former Prim Minister John Major. So he's a pretty big deal. And he was a really great speaker, he had some cool stories to tell. It was a long day but I had fun, hopefully our heat works tonight! Say a prayer!! Hope ya'll are having a great week so far!

P.S GO TAR HEELS! BEAT STATE