Spencer FYA London

  Midterm Season and Wales To view other blog entries, click the back arrow next to "Spencer FYA London", at the top of the screen. October 7th I had a lot of laundry because Wales was very muddy, so I got up at 6 to do laundry only to find out when I walked into the laundry room that someone had beaten me there by a matter of minutes. It has been almost two months here and there is still only one washing machine that’s worth a shit because the other two working ones take two hours to do a load bigger than eight pounds. I sulked back to my room and got ready for my day. We had a group presentation in Comparative Gov. and Politics today and my group's topic was comparing gun control between the two nations (*spoiler alert* it’s a night and day difference), so I did some final touch-ups to the presentation to ensure our chances of getting a better grade. The time we were supposed to aim for was 15-20 minutes in the outline and we went for almost a half hour, so it’s a good ...

  One Month Down To view other blog entries, click the back arrow next to "Spencer FYA London", at the top of the screen. September 23-  This morning was an exciting one, because for my Comparative Government and Politics class we were taking a field trip to the Churchill War Rooms. The Churchill War Rooms is an underground complex with cramped spaces where Winston Churchill and his administration conducted war efforts during WW2. I learned much about Churchill's life and how he was a very controversial politician back in his time. For class we had questions to answer about UK Government and about Churchill, and after I had sufficient knowledge I left around 12 to go home for lunch. Math in the afternoon was nothing extraordinary, obviously. After class I did a large grocery run to Lidl where I had to carry about 25 pounds of groceries back a half mile in my arms because I only brought one tote bag and a backpack. Once the groceries were unloaded I played basketball again...