Day 3....

It's still kinda hard to believe that I'm actually in London. Sometimes it doesn't seem real. I absolutely LOVE it though!!! Well day 3 was pretty much like day 2. We had to go to more orientation stuff at City but instead we talked about our home-stay and were able to sign up for some weekend trips that Arcadia had planned. For the home-stay we are all traveling to the city of Woking which is in Surrey. The person I am staying with is Erica and she is retired has children, a cat and her hobbies are gardening, reading and swimming. I really hope that she is nice. I also found out that there will be another student staying at the same house as me. Her name is Sara Sorrett and she lives in the Redcliff house. I think having another student staying in at the same home-stay place as me will make everything a lot more comfortable. The only thing that I'm not to happy about is the fact that we don't leave for our Home-stay until 5:30 p.m. on Friday and then we have to head back for London Sunday morning at 9 a.m. I really thought we were gonna be staying longer with the family. It's dissapointing that we will have to leave so soon.
Well like I said we were also able to sign up for some weekend trips. I was able to sign up for the weekend trip to Scotland which is October 9-11 and I signed up for the day trip to Bath which won't be until November 7. I also wanted to go to the day trip to Birmingham as well as go to see The Nutcracker at The Royal Opera House but both of those trips were full so I was put on the wait list. Hopefully a spot will open up so I can go.
After all that was done I went to my first class at the London College of Fashion. It was Europetan Fashion Marketing and started at 2 p.m. and went until 4:30. Me and two other girls headed over and made it in plenty of time. We found the classroom easily and sat in the back of the room. I really liked the class a lot as well as the teacher. We talked about what Marketing is in the fashion world, the differences and how to go about the marketing research. It was really interesting. I know I'm really going to enjoy the class and get a lot out of it. One thing that is different with the London College of Fashion is that they do not teach from text books and there are no tests throughout the semester. We are taught in a more hands-on method and get to go outside the classroom to learn things as well. Since there are no tests we are graded (or marked as it is called here) by a couple of group projects we do throughout the semester. I really like this way of learning more because we get to put into practice what we are learning right away and of course who wouldn't like not having to read text books and study for tests!! The first class went really well though and I look forward to the next one. Another thing I like about the fashion college is that my classes only meet once a week for a few hours each time. It really makes it nice because then I have most of my week free to go travel to others places and see other things.
After class we all headed back to our houses because there house meetings at 5 p.m. The meeting was really boring and totally pointless actually because we just went over a bunch of house rules again that we already talked about in a meeting that happend back on Monday. The meeting was over by 5:30 which left enough time for me to get ready for the play we were going to see at 7 p.m. at the National Theater. The play was called the Pitmen Painters which was set in 1934 and was about a group of miners who hired a professor to teach an evening art appreciation class and from there eventually the miners became great painters. I thought the play was actually really good. The actors/acting were fantastic and it was a good story line. The only was that I sometimes had a hard time understanding what they were saying because of their accent and I also had a hard time staying awake since I didn't get much sleep the night before. At intermission my two roomates and I went out to the concession stand and bought chocolate bars to try help us stay more awake for the second half. But all that aside, it was a great play and a really fun evening. After the play my roomate Amy and I headed back to the house while other people went walking around town. I really wanted to walk around town but it ended up getting really cold that night and I didn't have a jacket with me so I was freezing. I'll have to go walking around another night and from now on I'll always make sure I have a jacket with me.
Well it's getting late so I'll have to write more later. Bye for now....