History Teacher from Hell, Wallace Collection, and wounded feet

7/10/07

So my feet... are swollen and I can barely walk. Between the rain and the wrong pair of sneakers that I wore yesterday and all that walking my feet are not too happy right now. I didn’t know how I was going to make to class this morning. My other flat mate Megan is also taking the History of London class so we decided to take the tube because of my feet. The whole day is one big painful hurt! We ended up being 20 minutes late because finding the correct tube took a while, Euston station is huge! But we finally make to the building and I can’t wait to sit down. Unfortunately I’d have to wait a while... like FIVE HOURS!

As we where walking into the building the class was walking out, our teacher decided to take us around the neighborhood showing us different historical things. Not so much the building but more like how to tell if a building is from the Victorian, Edwardian, etc age. You can tell by the bricks.. but since I was in excruciating pain.. I can’t remember all that he said. One thing did stick, there are alleyways/streets called mews ( and because I was in a hurry to get to glass I forgot my camera again so I don’t have a pic to share, but one will follow) and according to my teacher mews are where the horses where kept by gentry and such. And this is where a picture would come in handy but the buildings where converted into homes and when you look at one head on you can tell they use to house horses. the doors and windows are wide because they were originally stalls. Very interesting. He took us all over Marylebone, where John Lennon used to live (there was a plaque), past Benedict Arnold's home, and close to Madonna’s place. We then were on a train on our way into London City (getting off at Farringdon Stations).


We walked through Central Market (where apparently they slaughtered livestock for market) stopped to admire a plaque in memory of William Wallace where he was executed and ended up Priory Church of St. Bartholomew the Great (which was builder in the 1123). If you've ever seen "four weddings and a funeral" or "Shakespeare in love" this is the church they used.

then more walking. Across the London Wall to the Museum of London where we learned (I think, everything at this point was hazy) the history of London from Roman occupancy to the great fire. Finally, after a painful hour we ended up at St. Paul station (in the background you could see St. Paul's Cathedral but thank God we didn’t go in).

By this time it was already 130pm and my BM class started at 2pm. And we still had to sign up for the social activities for the semester (more on that later).

We finally made it back to campus with 10 minutes to turn in our activities form but no time to eat. So, at this point, my feet where ready to burst (or at least they felt this way) I was starving, only had an apple for breakfast, and I had another 2 hours to go on my feet as I still had the Wallace Collection to visit with my BM class this afternoon.

I just wanted to sit and cry at this point.

And that afternoon is to follow in my next post. I’m tired and must put my feet up. Have another full day tomorrow.

More to come (with pictures!)