Being A Brit pt. 3

So I have a LOOOOOT to catch up on and I'm getting more and more pressed for time, so I'll try and abbreviate the next couple of posts.

We toured the BBC on Monday. I anticipated something a bit more glamourous than the fairly mundane building that we toured, but I suppose it is only a newsroom. It's the BBC, though. Regardless, the tour was well done and much like NBC's tour in NYC complete with audience participation in mock newsmaking.


Gareth then left us to teach the London internship students about the European Union and the Brussels kids all went to the Musem of Natural History. The building itself was beautiful! And the indoor architecture was as well. The museum was...cute. It was definitely geared towards kids--intelligent kids, though. In my opinion there are some very kid-oriented things in the US, and this was not to that extreme, but it was definitely meant for a younger crowd.


We met back up with Gareth and the London students at a CAPA classroom where we heard a debate between the Labour party and the UK Independent party. While the Independent party gave a much better delivered argument, his facts were wrong. The Labour party was pretty weak. Their debate was about whether or not Britain should remain a part of the European Union. Personal opinion, it should stay. I guess the debate wasn't good enough to sway me one way or the other, though.

And after the debate we headed over to a pub for free food with the London kids! They were really nice, but it sounded like they hadn't done a lot of traveling nor seen much of London itself. Pity, since that's one of my favourite cities.

The four of us left after a bit to head towards the Invisible Children event on Tooley Street at The Bridge. Our only point of direction? "Look for a black door." Thanks, Mike. That's loads of help. I had taken the address, but had no idea how to get there otherwise. It was a street with no number. We ultimately found it--literally underneath the Tube--and it was all decked out in mood lighting and African art. Very cool and very well done. C0ngratulations Molly Gardner and Lizzy Chenerey and anybody else who helped them set up.

[No. 39 of Kingston University]

I made it back to the hostel in time to catch three hours of sleep before jolting awake at 4am to catch our 6am train back to Brussels before our 11am class. Not as rushed or as nerve-wracking as before, but an extra hour of sleep would have been appreciated.