Gettin' Wild in Wales!

Seeing as I haven't posted in a week, there is lots to tell! This week for my art class we visited the Tate Modern and looked at the Cubism, Vorticism, and Futurism galleries.  I would show you pictures but I forgot to bring my camera this time!  One of the many things I forgot this week (You'll see as you read on!).  It was a very interesting gallery; we looked at paintings by Picasso and many other famous artists.  There were some cool sculptures as well!  After that class, I went to work, where I got to write a blog for Kony!  It was all about how mobile social shopping is the "new thing".  Hopefully Richard will let me know what he thinks of it when I go in to work on Tuesday.  I'm really liking my internship, even though I have very little knowledge and interest in technology.  The PR work is still fun!  And I think I'm pretty good at it.  This week I am going to start working with Laura on a new project: bringing in a new client!  It is a project that will probably last the duration of the internship.  I'm so excited!

On Wednesday night, Kaeline and I went out in Harrow for a bit, where we met some funny English boys (who were not cute by the way; I'm having trouble finding any attractive English boys!).  They were pretty drunk and kept singing Katy Perry's "California Girls" because we are from California.  One of them wanted to smell the perfume that was hanging around my neck, and after I put some on his wrist he told me he was in love with me.  I just laughed and turned away.

The next morning we left for Wales!  And here is the next thing I forgot: my oyster card.  The oyster card is my means of transportation.  I didn't need it for the train to Wales but I did need it for the tube ride to the train.  So I ended up having to pay for the tube.  We met everyone at the train station at 8:30am, and the adventure began!  The train ride was about an hour and a half to Cardiff, the main city in Wales, but it felt more like thirty minutes because we were playing fun games the entire ride!  It was kind of creepy when we got there because there was no one around!  Seriously, it was very gloomy and empty.  We took a tour of the Senate, which was pretty boring, which was followed by a trip to Tintern Abbey, which was amazing!  It was this thousand year old ruin of an Abbey, and it was huge!  There are pictures below.

We didn't have much to do at night because we were staying in the middle of nowhere!  But the days were pretty tiring so that was okay.

Interesting fact about Wales: there are more sheep than there are people.  They were everywhere!  On Friday, we took a tour of the national park, where many of us tried to get close to the sheep, but they did not want to get close to us!  Unfortunately, the battery on my camera died the night before, so I don't have pictures!  It was beautiful though; lots of green, rolling hills quilted with farms.  After going to the national park, we went horseback riding!  I had a little horse named Kery, who was so sweet and never tried to do anything bad, unlike some of the other horses.  It was fun, but a bit too long.  It got boring to be walking on a horse after the first hour. 

On Saturday, we cleared out of the hostel and journeyed to a coal mine, where Martin received a call from the people at the hostel saying that they had my wallet!  I didn't even realize I had left it!  Thank God they found it!  They will be sending it to me this week; hopefully it will get here by the end of the week.  Until then, I will be borrowing money from Saida.

However, it did make it difficult to get home without my wallet or my oyster card!  I sneaked into the tube by running through the doors in between two friends.  But when we got to the overground (which we had to take because our tube line was closed) there was an overground worker standing by the doors!  He said it would only be a couple pounds to buy a ticket, so my friends gave me 4 pounds, but it ended up being 4 pounds and 50 pence!  So, like a poor beggar, I had to ask the people behind me for 50 pence.  How embarrassing!  And then I had to run to the train because it was about to leave!  I will never forget my oyster card again!

Whew!  Well, that was the week.  Today I've been sitting in bed all day being lazy, which is nice!  I think tomorrow I am going to check out Harrod's!  Cheers!

Tintern Abbey

Michael and George

Michael and George singing "Hey There Delilah" to me on the bus