Busy times...
My feelings for London seem to grow by the day, so no worries. I am even pondering about moving there once ended my studies (to do what, I do not know) instead of living in Tokyo. I think I've got a good candidate who would agree to share an apartment (and all the resulting costs) with me, even if I'd have to train her English first, but I'm quite sure she would accept. Also because she could ascertain that the English are not such jerks as she was told in school - there was this unbelievably kind man who stopped by us and asked if we needed some help to find our way out of his own accord, which instantly made our day several times better even though it turned out he couldn't help us. We still agree that we would have liked to invite him for coffee out of gratitude - yeah, we're sap kids oversensitive to kindness (lol).
It's astonishing how I manage to never be happy with good things, now that I'm moving to Tokyo the place I most want to be is London (but I know the reason, so yeah).
I'll tell you, but don't get too jealous. =P I could find a cheap flight, so the first day was almost all wasted because of the arrival time, but we managed to do a nice demi-random stroll including fangirling in front of Buckingham Palace because of Arthur (luckily there was no one other than us). The second day was scheduled to be Greenwich - which is closer to London than what I had imagined by the way. So we went there in the morning and visied everything we could, with me getting especially excited in front of the National Maritime Museum, and her in front of all the 'Trafalgar's (Tavern, Quarters, Road, Square...you English seem to seriously like 'Trafalgar' lol).
This being the reason, obviously. Then we went to visit the Royal Observatory (gardens included), and felt asleep during the planetarium show despite ourselves because we stayed awake chatting until four in the morning the previous night, to our common annoyance (that was so stupid). And since it wasn't late yet when we went back to London I took her to Camden Town because Elendil talked so much about Cyberdog that she was curious to see it too; which resulted in adult conversation, walking around the stalls outside because contrary to our common friend that's the style of clothes we enjoy, and so much more fangirling from the moment I bought myself a ring (because of
him). At night I then went on my own to see the Tower Bridge lifting (I'm a little child). The third day was London: we rode the London Eye because she obsesses over Ferris wheels, visited the Houses of Parliament (
so beautiful! I hope to do an English tour some other time) and Madame Tussauds (with fantalking, fangirling, excitement, displease, identity wondering and whatnot - and she was too scared to enter, but that 'Scream' thing is so much fun, it isn't frightening at all
actually I was laughing), went to Forbidden Planet where she bought 'Doctor Who' books, and the nearby Foyles so I could buy the three original books I wanted. Then we went ice-skating in the evening, because I've always wanted to try but didn't feel comfortable on my own and didn't have anyone to ask, and she already knew how to do that and was happy to help me. She'd never fallen in her life, so I made her fall for the very first time lol - she fell in my place, poor her.
The last day was really only about taking the flight home. We both agree that Arthur loves us maybe even as much as we do because those three days had the best weather we could hope for - not hot, sure, but not that cold either given the season, and not a single drop of rain, mostly not even cloudy. It was raining lightly only at the very moment we arrived and it started again when we were on our way to the airport (sad to see us go? *giggle*).
I can't send any PM at the moment, so I'll just forward the e-mail to the two e-mail addresses I have of yours and see if you get it.
You probably know, but it's not like I'm working because I like it, you know. I work because we don't have money. The situation is very bad at the moment, now more than anytime I can remember, and sometimes (a bit too often actually) I can't help but think I did an incredibly stupid mistake about the timing of all this. Because that is a private school which will cost me every single coin I've saved up to this day plus some more, and I
will need to work over there as soon as I can as well to be able to continue to pay it (and yeah, to eat too), and still I wonder if it will be enough. I'd be wonderful beyond words if I could just spend my days in books and lectures and conferences and documentaries and everything, and leisurely keep studying till the end of my days, but it's an option I'm not given because my parents are not oil magnates. I'm already stretching the limit enough by attending such an expensive university in a city I would like to live in (and it being 9800 km away doesn't help one bit) and studying something only for the pleasure of it with no actual immediate application in mind.
It's written in the e-mail you'll hopefully receive, but in any case
this is the university and
this is the faculty.
QI incorrect, really? It didn't seem like that to me from what I read. Guess I'll give it a go for the fun then, when I'll find a little time for it. I've been wanting to watch Dexter since some time, even if there are some other titles I'm more eager to try, the most recent of which being Misfits (discovered thanks to a YouTube multifandom video) because I find the setting very interesting. I'll be sure to watch Boardwalk Empire since you're talking so well about it. I guess Sherlock
is a bit silly, even slightly dumb and fanservicy at times, but this doesn't prevent it from being one of my favourite tv shows. Give me characters I like and you're almost done, and I do like Sherlock's characters a whole lot, so it doesn't matter if I understood the Baskerville case way before Sherlock did, or if they made an editing mistake in episode 3, or if they turned half the cast gay or seemingly so. I'm enjoying the show, and the characters' interactions, way too much to care. I think at the very least you could probably watch it
for the lols (that's one of my very favourite editors there).
You didn't tell me your opinion about Doctor Who (and spin-offs). You don't watch it? =P Maybe you could share your thoughts about Merlin too? I really love the fact that all of those are British (I'm a Britain partisan XD).
