6/27/2011 Week Recap

I wrote this on Thursday night.. sorry it isn’t posted earlier!  Look out for an Italy blog post coming soon! 

Here is a quick recap of my week!  On Monday, Jessie and I went to KOKO to see the Barenaked Ladies! Before hand, we went to the pub.  This pub was different than usual with all different types of chairs and tables; it was really spacious, and the waiters were super nice.  We got a few drinks and dinner and then walked across the street to the concert! Although I didn’t recognize most of their songs, they played some great songs and last 4 songs I knew well!  See the video below to watch a glimpse of the concert.  

Don’t worry, I already bought their greatest hits album and loving it.  The venue reminded me a lot of the Pageant in St. Louis.  Monday was a super long day, but thankfully I had off work on Tuesday!  My boss had a prior commitment and he told me I could have the day off.  So what do you do with a day off? Well you sleep in a little longer for one thing.  I was going to go see the changing of the guards, but I ended up laying in bed for a little longer.. instead I met up with Jessie around her work and we went to a pub for lunch.  Another thing checked off my list: eating pie!  Jessie warned me that her work told her the pie’s with meat in them, well lets just say they don’t use just one part of the animal.. so I stuck with the all veggie.  And I got mash!  This is a very typical British meal.  

Next, I headed off to the British Museum.  I was dying to get there as it has a large collection of Greek artifacts and this past semester I took the history of Greek Art and Archeology.  It was so fascinating to remember seeing the images from the slides and my note cards to looking at the actual pot or sculpture.  It was beyond great.  Yet I believe the Brits need to give Greece their art back, it seemed a little weird looking at all this ancient Greek work but yet I wasn’t in Greece. I took way to many pictures here but everywhere I turned I got so excited as I could think back to information I learned from the class.

Right when you walk into the museum. Beautiful ceiling, interesting design. 

An early Greek pot, one can tell by the depiction of the apple-shaped human as they haven't developed the technique for portraying a human.

Sculpture from the pediment of the Parthenon! 

After walking around for awhile I was pretty “hot” (British hot is 80’s degrees), was with a ton of tourists, and my feet were killing me so I went back home.  But soon we headed to Harrods for a night of shopping and Italian for dinner!

Wednesday was a busy day at work, there were a ton of people coming in and out of the office with meetings or everyone didn’t leave for meetings so it was crowded, but in a good way.  I got to see business happen right in front of my eyes.  Also a girl from Spain, who studied Industrial Design, came to work for Tom to help with some of the 3D computer modeling for the project I am working on.  She is really nice, but I can already tell that I am going to have major culture shock when I go to a non-English speaking country.  I am still helping him with presentations materials as things keep changing and my boss should be going to California to present the products at the end of July.  After work, I did my laundry and met up with Dana, Jennifer, and Ashley!  London is there last stop so we met up!  KU rockin’ in the UK.

Today was a calm day in the office, kept working on my presentation material and even worked in some Photoshop.  I am not as familiar with this program, but thanks to the internet I did what Tom asked me too and he was satisfied with the end product.  I wanted to get out of work so bad today because I could not contain my excitement for Italy tomorrow!  It’s one o’clock in the morning here and I am pretty much packed and ready to go!  Can’t wait for tomorrow to come and to be eating pizza next to the Colosseum.  Well until next time, cheers!