defying gravity.

i have officially been living here for 2 weeks. it feels like it has been months haha. the past few days i have still been doing kitchen crew, which makes the days feel like a little longer.

on friday we headed to the british museum for 2 of our classes. it was a pretty big museum, so even after being there for almost 2 hours, we didn't see that much! after the museum, me, sharon, liz, and carly went to the restaurant 'zizi's' right by our place. it is italian, and it was really yummy!

saturday we went on another walk for our "london walks" class- we went to portobello market. it was way bigger than i expected and everything was so cute and different. they had lots of scarves and jewelry- and i finally spotted a cath kidston store!!!! we ventured out the harrods that night. it was HUGE.... looks like a museum in there and we actually got lost in there. it was so crowded and we were starving, so we split up our group of like 8 and me, kins, and ashley got dinner there while the others left and went somewhere else. we now know that we all can't go to harrods together on a saturday night when it is so crowded because we all get on edge and get really hungry hahahaha. (also, family- we went to laduree's in harrods to get a macaroon, and it was actually really really good! i don't know why but they tasted so much better than the paris ones we got!)

i started church at my assigned ward on sunday. my ward is full of african people, and i got a calling in the young women. the ward was really small- and in the chapel they don't even have benches, just folded chairs. so i am surprised to see how many young women they even have in the ward! i'm kind of nervous considering that i just barely got out of young women's a year ago haha. it took us an hour and a half to get there (3 different tubes & a bus) but we somehow got there on time (actually 5 minutes early) so it all worked out good!

monday a few of us attempted to go shopping, but sadly the mall that we chose to go to because it was the closest to us-- wasn't the best. i don't have school on mondays, so it's a free day. which is sometimes nice, but sometimes just makes us lazy and all think about home more. after kitchen crew and dinner, we all went out and got frozen yogurt at our new favorite place called snog. sugar free & fat free... and still tasted good. yup we're all trying to figure it out still.

yesterday (tuesday), i had class all day, then straight to kitchen crew, and then went to wicked! the day was busy.. but good! this was my second time seeing wicked.. and i really liked it! it was fun to see it in london (lots of the singers had british accents)- we had great seats and it was really fun!

this morning we woke up early again for kitchen crew, then we climbed back into bed for a while hahaha- which we lovvvvved. after getting up and getting ready, me and kinsey went to giraffe for lunch. it was the best meal that we have eaten here! after lunch we went to oxford street and got in some good shopping. we had a really fun day and were really happy! hahaha we needed a good eating & shopping day. plus it was sunny for the first time since we have been here- makes the day that much better.

tomorrow we are leaving to go up north.. it will be fun to get out of the centre for a weekend!! xoxo

ps. sorry that all this post talked about was complaining about kitchen duty.