Well, I missed Les Miserables. I took a nap, which turned into a sleep and then I woke up and the performance had started an hour and a half prior. Disappointing? Yes. The end of the world? No.
We went on a tour that detailed the life of Jack the Ripper (a serial killer in London at the end of the 19th century). The tour guide has written a book on the subject and been on international TV. He gave Johnny Depp the tour before he performed in the movie "From Hell" and we saw the pubs and such that were central to the killings. We also went by a wall originally built by the Romans and expanded upon in medieval times which was pretty cool (as far as walls go anyway). It's possible that the tour guide had a bit of a morbid fascination with things that are a bit morbid. You may have guessed that the tour was morbidly amusing as a result. Murder, prostitution, dark alleyways and long knives. Actually, doesn't sound so amusing now that I think about it. Morbidly fascinating perhaps.
Today we went to the RAF (Royal Air Force) museum which was pretty interesting. Being an air force museum there were naturally a lot of airplanes. I wish we could have sat in the cockpits and stuff and been able to interact with the planes more hands on, but it was still pretty cool nonetheless. My investments professor (Dr. Gritta) has been spending a LOT of time trying to educate us on English history, particularly WWII history, so looking at the planes was definitely more interesting because I had more of an idea what type of role several of them played in the war.
On the way back from the RAF museum Dr. Gritta and I were walking through Leicester square we ran into a crowd of people gathering around a speaker box. Standing in front of this speaker box was this tiny little kid, looked like he was 2 maybe, but he was dressed in casual college student clothes, wearing headphones, and dancing like you wouldn't believe. I wish I got a picture, it was absolutely hilarious. This kid had moves that were baller, I mean they were fancy, I don't think I could compare. Yeah, it was a puppet. An AWESOME puppet. It was pretty sweet. Dr. Gritta's only comment was, "that kids going to lose his hearing if he stands in front of the speaker like that." I was amused.
I went to pick up a phone today since I could get one for relatively cheap. While I was in there dealing with issues with my credit card another guy is up at the front counter and is obviously not happy about something. He's going on with the clerk and getting more and more aggravated. I'm just finishing up my transaction when this guy just collapses. Everyone in the store turns to see what is going on, someone runs up to him to see if he's okay, and he just starts freaking out. Don't get me wrong, he's not convulsing or anything, he didn't pass out - he was merely throwing a tantrum. It was pretty disturbing.
On that note, I really need to figure out what to do about money while I'm over here - having some issues and I don't quite know what to do about it. Hopefully thing will work out though.
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