To Rule after Death comes...

Today I went back to the British Museum. I’ve decided to make several trip there over my stay here and each time see a different exhibit. The museum is so overwhelming! There’s so much to see! Today I explored the Greek and Roman exhibits and almost cried over the artifacts I saw; most of them were straight out of my textbooks! It’s weird to think the only think separating you from these incredible objects is glass. So neat. I’m sure mom and dad would have been on cloud 9 seeing some of the things in there. I know I was!

Emperor Augustus

Achilles and Ajax

I want a coffin like this...

Then later I returned to see the special exhibit on the terra cotta army amassed by the first Emperor of China. That was mindboggling. Simply awesome. They look so real and they are so well preserved. I saw some armor from the early Qin dynasty and it looked like someone could still wear it. Unfortunately, no photos were allowed of the exhibit, which is a shame, because there was so much more than the stone figures—armor, floor and roof tiles, wall sconces, pottery, jewelry and so much more.

Some people have asked about my roommates. Two of them Monica and Marika (they’re in the room next to me), are very nice. The three of us get along really well. We’ve planned a weekend trip to Paris and later are going to Ireland for St. Patrick’s Day. Yay us!
Then there’s Regina. Yeah. She’s my roommate and I cannot figure her out. One day she’s nice and the next she hates me. So actually wrote a blog about me and how I “wake up at the freakin’ crack of dawn” and how I move around loudly. >_> Hm—I get up early so she can sleep in a shower late, and I try to be quiet, but alas. She stays up annoyingly late with the light on, so I call it even. =D

I don’t know what I’ll do tomorrow…probably try and go grocery shopping and sleep. I’ll be gone Monday thru Thursday on a long field trip and I have a feeling it’ll be very tiring. And hopefully we’ll actually have some tours. “Tours” equate to Carla and Chris dropping us off somewhere saying “Well, have fun!” That can be a little daunting—especially if we don’t know what we’re looking at, and they expect us to join/pay for tours at a certain place. It’s a little annoying. Like they dropped us off at the Tower of London and left us to our own devices. Sometimes it’s nice to do things at your own pace, but sometimes it’s nice to have someone tell you what you’re looking at and how it’s a neat thing! >_<

Anyway, I’m off to bed soon. I love and miss you all so much!!!!