Jeannia was to land in London at 11am this morning. And knowing how long it took me to get through customs (30 minutes) at 730 in the morning I wasn’t expecting her to get through until after 12. So I set off late from my place at about 11am for Paddington Station. I left a message on her mobile letting her know and arrived about noon and I waited.
No call back. I leave her another message and take a seat and watch people catch their train and get off the trains. Just a side note here, if you land in Heathrow Airport and don’t have a lot of luggage and don’t want to spend 40 to 60 pounds on a taxi you can take the Heathrow Express for about 15 pounds, then take a taxi from here. It’s pretty centralized to everything.. unless you’re going to eastern London then it wouldn’t work.
Anyway, back to waiting. Custom’s must be taking longer than I thought, so with my phone on I sit and read my book (I’m reading “Mr. Darcy and Me” by Alexandra Potter - cute book). I try Jeannie again, only voice mail. It’s been an hour now (130pm). And I have both my phones on, just in case. I get up and decide to take a walk to stretch my legs, by then the sky has turned nice and gloomy (like my mood) and I’m praying it isn’t going to rain... I forgot my umbrella. I go down London and end up in a small enclosed garden, Norfolk Square, surrounded by townhouse like hotels, one of them named Shakespeare Hotel. I sat for a while just enjoying the quite of the neighborhood and read some more. Called Jeannia again, only voice mail. Now I’m starting to work.. maybe she got the times wrong and she was arriving at 11 at night.. but that didn’t make sense. So I sat until it started to rain (sucks!) and I made my way back to Paddington to sit and wait. Called her again, again voice mail. By this time it’s 3pm. So I leave her a message to please call me to let me know she is ok, grab some groceries at the Sainbury they have in the station and head home totally sad and missing my friend.. sucks!
I get home and have another load of laundry to do, I didn’t have enough coins yesterday but I do now. So I do laundry and watch 300 and Spider-Man 3 in the common room and wait for a phone call. Nothing.
Well no Jeannie today... I’ll just have to keep trying, hopefully she’ll email to let me know she’s ok.
And tomorrow is Monday (ugh) and back to school. Tomorrow should be a calm day, My museum class is meeting in class so no walking except to school, and a practice test. Ugh, I forgot about that. And I really need to start thinking about my essay that is do next week sometime. But on Tuesday we are going to the National Gallery, yeah! And my Tuesday History class is meeting at the school, no walking then too! double yeah! Hopefully we’ll get a syllabus and he’ll explain what we can expect in this class. I’m just happy I’ll be off my feet for a while :) My feet are happy :)
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