BUZZING FOR BELGIUM

Tomorrow, me and 15 other students plus 2 teachers and very little knowledge of the French language are taking ourselves to Belgium!

We're getting the train to London at 8.15 tomorrow, we'll then get the Eurostar to Brussels and then a train to Liege where we'll say with our exchange partners for a week.

I'm excited but nervous. Half of me can't wait for the laughs and the fun and low drinking age (only 16!) but the other half is thinking of having to speak French, staying in an unfamiliar place and getting up at 6 every morning...

Anyway, I'm all packed and ready to go, just got to find some cards for the train, a camera and my passport! It's late but I wouldn't be able to sleep anyway :D

Au Revoir! See you in a week!

Georgina xx

When a man is tired of London...

Today I went to London with my dad to meet his friend from Germany, Johannes and his daughter, Lena. We met them at Euston station then went to the tower of London and did the touristy bit. It was really interesting actually. I've been before, but I couldn't remember any of it because I was so little at the time, so it was all new to me. Lena had never been to England before so she was really excited. We got to see the crown jewels as well which were pretty impressive!


We then took a bus to a little English pub to have fish and chips (they were keen to do everything traditionally English while they had the chance!) I know I have mentioned this before but I really love London, just the whole atmosphere. It's one of those busy places where you could watch the people all day and wonder why they're there and what their story is. There's also so much to see, there's all the big, touristy, historical places then all the little secret places that have loads of character. Haha anyway my dad and I had a train to catch so we left Lena and Johannes and came home after a long day :)

Tomorrow I'm up at 6 to go to Venice with my mum...I feel like such a globe-trotter! Two cities in two days, I'm so excited :D So yes I won't be back until next Monday so I won't be posting for a while, sorry! I will miss blogging and all of you of course :) I'm sure I'll have lots of stories to tell and pictures to share when I get back so be prepared!

Thanks for reading, see you in a week :)

Ciao, Georgina x

London

Yesteday I went to London with my mum, not for any reason really, just cos it's fun :) She wanted to get my dad a wallet for his birthday from this posh shop on Bond Street (it's his 50th), it was so funny, we walked in and there were about 5 sales people waiting to serve us so she put on this really posh voice and acted like she new exactly what she wanted. I had a look round the shop and there was a box that cost £6,600! It was leather but seriously!?

Then we went to Oxford street, of course, but didn't get to go into the big topshop, grrr. We met up with my brother and his girlfriend, we haven't met her properly before so that was cool. We had lunch then went to the tate modern which I have to say has a lot of crap displayed! There was one piece which was just a mirror stuck on a canvas, if only that was good enough for my As exam! But we did see some amazing ones- Warhol, Dali, Picasso, Modigliani etc.

So yer it was a good day, bit of shopping, lots of eating and it was nice to see my brother and the gf :)

Hope you guys are having a good week/ half term :)

Georgina xx