No longer unemployed!!

Yep that's right!  As of 4:52 pm London time, I have an internship!  All this hullaballoo has finally gotten me an internship!  I received a call at 4:40 from a London number and I was so confused at first because with the combination of a bad connection and a British accent that was hard to decipher, I didn't really understand what was going on.  But apparently I was getting interviewed for an internship with AdConnection, a media buying and planning firm.  So I got the job!  It's in Wimbledon and is 1.6 miles from Wimbledon Park where the tennis tournament is in 11 days!  I am so excited!  I was bummed for .5 seconds when I realized I didn't get the River Publishing internship, but that doesn't matter because this is way cooler!  So now I get to bum around the city until Monday when I start working.

Since I wasn't working Tuesday, I met up with Leah again and we ventured around the Natural History Museum along with 10 million school kids on field trips.  It was neat and I will probably go back soon to see more of it, but so far, it's not my favorite museum.  Then we were starving and were looking for some place to eat so we stopped at one of those food carts and I got what was called a cheese burger (FYI this was my first red meat experience).  When I got it, I wasn't sure if it was the best red meat to be eating (it looked like it might have some other meat in it, but I didn't care because I was STARVING).  So I ate my mystery meat and we headed through Hyde Park to see the Peter Pan statue that my flatmates and I have been searching for.  It was so cool.  All my dreams of flying around London with Peter came back to me, and now, more than ever, I want to sit on the hands of Big Ben like they do in the movie.  We then parted ways and I said goodbye to Leah who is heading back to the States tomorrow, and I headed to the Round Pond in the Kensington Gardens area and read my book.  Another day of sunshine=more color for me!  I am thoroughly enjoying this weather!  I then came to our flat to make dinner and wait for my flatmates to come home from work.  We then headed to a pub for the night until they rang the bell for closing.

Today Alan (another one of the three of us without an internship) and I went to the International Enrichment office to see what the deal was with our internships, only to be greeted by a locked door because they were off greeting the new kids who arrived today for session 2.  So we went to the British Museum and looked at the Greek and Egyptian things.  It was so neat to see parts of the Parthenon and all the statues of the g-ds and goddesses.  Have I mentioned I'm obsessed with Greek mythology?  We also saw the Rosetta Stone.  The Egyptian things were also interesting, and my favorite part was the mummy exhibit.  They had Cleopatra's mummy there!!  It amazed me how they kept the remains so preserved.  It might have something to do with the fact that they remove the brain of the dead through the nose and the other organs through the butt (sorry if I grossed you out).  We then came back and I headed to the book store to find a new book since I am done with the Twilight books until the beginning of August when the fourth one comes out.  I picked up a sandwich and headed to the Belvedere park for the first time and ate and read and watched some young men AKA blokes play football (AKA soccer).  A storm started to blow in so I headed home and received the phone call that held my destiny for the summer.

Things I've learned:

1.  Even the British think the French are rude to English speakers.

2.  Mummification is a long process, but it really preserves the body.  Maybe I should look into it...

3.  Pret a Manger has AWESOME food

4.  I will finally admit that I can't drink as much beer in England as I do in the States because of how much alcohol content is in it

5.  Taking the tube round trip in zone 1 (central London and where I live) is around the same price as a gallon of gas in the States

Oh, did I mention I'm going to Dublin July 5 and 6?  Because I am!  Best 4th of July weekend ever!!  Texas Embassy and Dublin...CAN'T WAIT!!

Cheers!