LONDON, BABY!

WOOF. i am leaving london today! sorry about the delay in posts. . .

i have fell in love with this city while i've been here. i've been more social than usual - staying with a friend of a friend (hi paul!) and my old housemate, alexis (hey girl!), was in town randomly too. so, not as much sightseeing as the other places, but definitely enough. and i need to save some for when i move here next year.......

my trip here was great - thursday night was a chill night in just relaxing and getting ready.

friday : i had a lunch meeting with pamela lidiard, who is in charge of piano studies here at the guildhall school of music. the school seems amazing - closely associated to all things musical: royal opera house, lso, barbican centre, etc... i would love to join the student community! seems very welcoming and inspiring.

 the rest has been parties, eating, sleeping, sightseeing. here's some photos!

cute kitty i'm staying with!!

a train station

st. pauls!

another church

market - there are tons here!

ship near the thames

old and new

the actual london bridge

another indoor market

tower bridge from afar

tower of london across the thames

crazy buildings

weird color scheme, right?

metropolis!

look how old and cool!

that spire on the right is ALL GLASS.

tower of london

tower of london

another view of tower of london

 if you hadn't noticed, it was RAINING. alexis, betsey, and i were getting really wet - so we decided to go to the saatchi gallery. highly recommended!!!

they had a paper exhibit -
this was done with pen and graphite

this is a GRAPHITE DRAWING.

a huge face made out of paper

a rock

ok, so the bottom half of this is OIL. it reflects the ceiling blahblah. 

paper roses

paper origami hanging thing

these were hanging from the ceiling!

then they had an exhibit on new british designers/artists

new best friend

alexis' new hair style

alexis' new boyfriend

redroom

alexis

the only view of buckingham palace

it was RAINING.

other things i did that i didnt take pictures of :

• the tate museum - amazing collection of art
• westminster abbey
• millenium bridge
• inside st. pauls

so, london is amazing - very much a metropolis, but the arts are so alive here! i can feel that everyone appreciates culture so much more over here. it's pretty much the perfect city...

off to paris for three days with two best friends, jayme and kate!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

then. flying. home. wednesday.

see you soon everyone!

d