#16 London's Underground

I love London. It's a wonderful city.

First place we visited was Trafalgar Square, where we saw Nelson's Column and the plynth that people go up on. One of the guys sang "Happy Birthday" to my friend, Lauren, who celebrated her 15th yesterday. Since everything I did was with Creative Writing class, we wrote poems about it.

Then we got on the Tube and stood in the hot stuffy train staring around. Absolutely awful. But we got out and walked to the Tate Modern.

That's such an interesting place. Weird art + lots of tourists = great place to write poems!

Then we walked down Brick Lane in the infamous East Side of London. Again, awesome place to write poems. We saw my teacher's office. He works in a converted subway train on top of a building!

But the most intriguing and exciting place, easily the best place for writing poems, was Covent Garden. The many people there are so interesting. For example, I saw probably about ten different people being "human statues" and there were musicians playing all evening. I even had my portrait done in charcoal by a Chinese artist. All delightful experiences that I wrote about.

All in all, a wonderful and insightful day.

God Bless,

Erienne