Today was a day of actually doing a lot of good studying and essay writing. We had an awesome Humanities lecture on music (understandably my favorite topic) and after classes were over I hunkered down and spent a few hours on my Brief Essay on Literature. I chose to write about the War Poem "Dulce Et Decorum Est" by Wilfred Owen, which holds special significance for me as an avid student of European History. Dinner was the most American thing you can probably think of: Hot Dogs and Potato Chips.
We had some special visitors at dinner tonight: a senior missionary couple who were asked to come to the London Centre and visit with the students (us) about our experience on the program and at the Centre, coming soon to a Church Publication near you. That was pretty crazy and it was really neat to be able to talk to them and be able to share my experiences with the Centre and the London program.
So the weather here has actually been terrible, and not in the way I expected..it has been up in the high 80s, low 90s and it is miserable without AC. So while we were fully intending to go out and do something, Kindal, Kim and I ended up laying in the drawing room, trying not to melt for a large portion of the evening. Also a drunk man on the fourth story across the street waved at us and said hi and that was a terrible uncomfortable but also hilarious episode.
Probably the crowning moment of the night (and *spoiler alert* an event that would change the rest of our trip) was when we spontaneously decided that Matt (son of our Humanities professor) needed to come play cards and get magnum bars with us...so we summoned him via social media, went out in the rain and got ice cream, and played progressive rummy until close to midnight. And so was born what Sister Benfell later dubbed "The Fab Four".
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