Sunday, May 13, 2012

Hanging out in London

Hi everyone!

Since coming back from Stockholm, I have been scrambling to catch up with homework.  I think I'm pretty much back on track, so I can relax a bit.  Yesterday, me and a friend went to see the London Symphony Orchestra in an outdoor concert at Trafalgar Square!  They were playing mostly Stravinsky (encore was Prokofiev) and it was really awesome.  There were a couple thousand people there, really impressive.

Today is the last day of the Premiere League, a big football (soccer) tournament for English club teams.  I don't know who to root for.  I live by Arsenal's stadium, but I don't really support them, haha.

I am starting to get a reputation for talking about food too much in this blog, but real fast, let me tell you about my work placement!
So last week I worked on taking data from a database and working out statistics about the contents ("in 1980, 73% of the roles in plays were for male actors" etc).  Then I stuck it into nice little JavaScript charts that are interactive.  It is pretty neat, I will try to post one soon.  But more importantly, I get £5 for lunch every day, and boy have I been taking advantage of that!  There is a market about two blocks away from work with all kinds of food stalls and I go there every day!  A lot of the food stands change by the day so I always have new choices.  I have been eating a lot of Senegalese, Moroccan, Thai, and a pseudo Indian thing (like....Indian kebabs with falafel?  It's confusing but tasty).

Anyway, I'll talk to some of you tonight!  Happy Mother's Day!

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