Tate Modern and Other Wanderings

Not much has gone on these past two days, so this will be a shorter post. As part of orientation we were again broken into small tour groups yesterday, and my group went to the Tate Modern museum. Although I'm not a huge fan of modern art, the large collection was very interesting to look through. I especially enjoyed the pieces on display by Andy Warhol. The Tate Museum is located right near St. Paul's Cathedral, and even though the weather was a bit gloomy yesterday we walked by some great views. After the museum I went back to the dorm in Notting Hill and finally got to try some fish and chips! I got it to-go (which here they call take-away) from Cafe Diana, a famous cafe with photos of Princess Dian all over the wall. It was delicious!

St. Paul's and the bridge near the museum

One of Andy Warhol's self portraits

Those are all porcelain sunflower seeds - the piece is
supposed to be about the people of China's
communist regime

View of St. Paul's from the museum's entrance

Miriam, Lisa, and I 

Rainy day... 

Tate Modern Museum

 

Cafe Diana

Today we had orientation from 9-4, so it was not a very adventurous day. But we finally got our schedules! My classes are Creative Writing, Modern British History, British Art History, and British Media History. So excited!! While I was looking over my schedule I couldn't help but think about how each class I'm signed up for I chose because of a specific class at Sharon High...I know this sounds ridiculously nerdy but I can't wait to apply everything I learned from my history/social studies classes at school to my classes here. When orientation ended three girls and I decided to take the train up a few stops to the famous Camden Town markets, which really shouldn't be famous because it wasn't anything special at all. The stores were either souvenir stores or punk-ish/gothic-ish stores, and there were a lot of places to get tattoos or body piercings. Not London's most fabulous corner in my opinion. 

More orientation trips tomorrow...so long until then. 

xoxo,

Sarah