Foyle'd again!

Ha! You know I'm hilarious...

On Friday I had my first Fiction class, which was good except for 2 things. One, it's 3 hours long... that's a pretty long class. Two, our professor told us the entire plot and ending of "The Secret Agent" by Joseph Conrad... which none of us had read yet! Oh well. I'm about 50 pages in now and it's still good. As far as I can tell it's about the law, anarchy and madness.

After class I went to Foyle's to buy my books. Foyle's is the largest bookstore in the world and it is awesome! It's at least 5 stories with a cafe which I didn't get to go in but really want to. It opened in 1903. Apparently the daughter of the original owners hated "newfangled technology" so up until 1999, there weren't even cash registers, just calculators and hand-written receipts! Also, books were organized by publisher, not author, making everything impossible to find. But now that there are new owners it's really simple.

We interrupt your regularly scheduled blogging to bring you a...

Grandparents' Update

Grandma & Grandpa Ogle- Just thought you'd be interested to know that I've been taking a women's multivitamin every day!

G & G Julian- I've been using my Starbucks card from Christmas a lot! There are about as many Starbucks in London as there are at home, if not more.

G & G Abney- There is definitely a big Islamic/Muslim population here, but I've actually heard more people complain about the Chinese/Japanese/Asian influx. It's hard to say because it depends on what area of the city you're in.

Cheerio, ol' chaps!
Rebecca