After the day I've had thus far, I honestly think I should boycott the tube system for making my day a living hell. I set out this morning at 11:25 am to find my internship in Wimbledon. I made it there on the tube perfectly fine. Once I got to Wimbledon is when everything started going downhill. I got so unbelievably lost trying to find where I was going. I ended up in a residential area far from where I was supposed to be. I came back and walked past the same pub 5 times. And then I finally found the street I needed. It was 10 feet from where I had been walking this whole time. So I found the building and it is nestled in between car repair shops and "tyre" shops (that's how they spell tire). So anyways, I headed back to the tube station to find that my Oyster card (my pass for the tube) was only for zones 1 and 2 (central London) and I was in zone 3. So I went to the desk to try and fix my card only to find that it wouldn't matter because my tube line was down because of some spark. So he sold me a ticket for what he says was one station, but handed me one for a different station (and I didn't realize this until I was already on the train). I got off at my stop and found out that this was, and I quote, "The Largest London Overground Junction." Great. So I get off and some nice man who works there helps me and tells me that I have to buy another ticket to get back to the tube. So I run all the way down to the ticket window, passed by an elderly man who had taken a spill and had a crowd of people around him, and bought a ticket (so now I'm at 4.50 pounds in just train tickets AKA $9!) and ran back to catch the next train (it's 1:35 at this point). So I make it back to the tube and get back home. I head to the ticket window to change my Oyster card and I was fortunate to have a nice hispanic man help me. He calmed me down and fixed everything for me. He even made a comment about how I have the same name as Halle Berry and I told him how she grew up in the area next to where I live. Gotta love the random nice people! So now I'm at home, debating if it would be okay for me to get a drink, by myself, because that's all I want and everyone else is at work. I think I might just head to a museum though.
At least today is the last day I have off before I start my internship on Monday. Yesterday I felt like a housewife because I went grocery shopping, cleaned, met Christy, Caroline and Marylyn for lunch and then came home and took a nap until Christy came home. Christy and I headed to get burgers from Gourmet Burger Kitchen and some of our favorite champagne. The burger was delicious, but my stomach isn't used to red meat (and this confirmed my suspicions that the burger I had the other day was NOT red meat...). So now I think I won't eat red meat for the rest of the summer.
Things I've learned
1. Clapham Junction is the BUSIEST rail station in London
2. We may have had a ghost living upstairs...
3. Londoners get so lost all the time too
4. Wimbledon is not considered in London
5. Dublin is nowhere near the Blarney Stone
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