Kensington Gardens

Today we had our Understanding Modern Britain class actually in the classroom.  We mostly talked about terrorism, violence, and random other stuff like weather. 

After class I went to Bayswater.  I found a place that sells really cheap postcards, so I bought a bunch.  Then I went to the park, more specifically Kensington Gardens.  It is sort of part of Hyde Park.  I saw the round pond, with millions of birds: ducks, geese, swans, pigeons, and other little birds.  Then this guy came up to me and asked if I would take his picture, so I did.  Then he asked if he could take my picture, that was kind of weird, but I said ok.  Then he said he was from Jordan, and he was here for two weeks, he asked where I was from and if I was here with family.  i just told him that I was a student from America.  Then he asks me if I wanted to get some coffee.  I was like I have class, I need to go, sorry.  I totally lied, but the guy was like probably 35 or so.  I am apparently a magnet for older guys, even in another country. 

Well, after running away, I found the Albert Memorial.  it is pretty cool, I took pictures.  I also found the Serpentine Gallery, but it was closed so I didn't get to see anything.  Basically after that I headed back towards the Queens Gate Tube station.  On the way out, I saw a bunch of squirrels, and all sorts of birds.  People here have a weird fascination with watching and trying to pet squirrels.  It was nice to just be away from buildings for a bit.  The park is so huge, and foresty meadowy it seems like actual outside at home.  I never realized that I missed the smell of trees, but it was nice today.  I also saw Kensington Palace, well the outside and garden.  The garden is awesome, there are fountains and flowers.  All the flowers smelled nice. 

After I got home, I wrote all my postcards and turns out that I got an A on my Aesthetics paper.