Here I am

And oh. my. god. london is soooo hot.

last night i shared a room with 5 guys...and me. yay! they were all pretty good looking and all slept in their boxers so bow chicka bow wow...i must say. lol. though i must say i hardly got any sleep at all because one guy kept snoring. they were the weirdest snores

i have ever heard in my life. i really hope he left this morning for good so i won't have

to listen to him anymore. it was like a mixture of the sound of

spitting everywhere and a bulldog barfing...not barking, barfing. with a little head shaking in their. it was so strange. i wanted to compliment him on his weird snoring but he got up earlier then anyone else (no surprise because he was probably the only one who could sleep).

my hostel is pretty kick ass i must say though. there's a bar downstairs and for 2 pounds i can

have breakfast in the morning. (pretty cheap for london) and there's a table reserved for four

men everyday at 3:30 till late because they all sit and talk story as we say in Hawaii.

today though I took the tube to the london bridge and took the london experience tour. it was me + 30 other people all part of a big group. i felt pretty awkward because they all knew each other

and i was kind of the black sheep of the crowd...american and all.

haha. it was pretty interesting. i had no idea about the great fire of 1666 and i felt pretty bad about it. i'm not much of a history

buff but come on...you have to know where the "london bridge is falling down" song comes from and at what time. so on this tour there was a part called london tombs and it was a bit scary.

you have to hold on to the person's shoulders in front of you and tredge through the darkness where any epileptic would be prone to have a crazy seizure just from the pure amount of strobe light action. there were people who hopped out of the darkness wearing masks of course but one person picked up a gun and shot it at you and you got a lot of pelts of air blown at you. that was the part that really

scared me.

i took the tube in order to go to the london dungeon, (which i might go to tomorrow with westminster abbey) but as soon as i got off the tube a metrosexual hottie with fake blood plastered on his face stopped me and convinced me to go to the london experience instead. i mainly went because he kept following me to make sure i went to it and gave me a sick discount

on the ticket.

i then stopped at a tiny italiano restaurante and ate a delicious pasta meal with sausage inside

and the main guy who worked there told me to get a glass of wine to go with my meal because it

was half off if i did. so of course i ordered white wine. damn me for not having white pasta though. the wine tasted really weird with the red sauce. i also had a bottle of pellegrino sparkling water to help my meal along. i couldn't finish it all because everyone gets

really full on pasta and

the lady who worked there said, "oh you didn't finish it all, did you not like it?" quite the contrary it was excellent! but not to feel bad about not finishing it i asked for "take away" and they gave me my

food in a plastic container! i was pretty shocked that it didn't come in a box but i guess that's the american way. while i was eating my food though i noticed the main guy playing cards with the italian bartender. it was so interesting to see an italian game being played with a deck of cards i've never seen before. so of course i had to ask them to teach me. i must say i wasn't very good at it but now i'm determined to get a pack of italian cards and learn how to play. here it is on wiki:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scopa

they were all so nice though that the main italian guy gave me a rose along with the rest of the bottle of my pellegrino. (even if i really wanted regular water)

after all of that was said and done I headed back towards the london bridge and visited Southwark Cathedral and paid homage to my deceased grandfather by writing his name on a post-it and having a moment of silence for him. there were other prayers for sick people, people with hiv/aids and deceased people. you could light a candle too, to

continue your prayer for others to see.

i then was pretty exhausted--after all it's afternoon in my time zone and night time here. i woke up at 6:30 this morning and told myself i was crazy, took a shower and then headed down to the computer store, waited for that to open (which it never did) so i tredged on to find another computer store, ran into one about 2 miles away, and gave the computer to him and he turns it on and guess what? it works! fuck me for walking 2 miles

with my computer to fix it when it wasn't broken anymore. yay! so i walked all the way back to my hostel to drop off my computer then walked another 3 miles up to the tube. (my feet are tired) took the tube and did everything i said above.

then, you'll never believe this. i thought that i could take the tube back to a different station that might be closer to where i'm staying. so i take it to a different stop (huge mistake). i ended up going further down then where my hostel is and further to the left of it. like...2 miles. so all in all i was really far away from my hostel and the street i needed to go down to get to it. so i ask a man for directions of how to walk there and i end up just walking 500 ft in a circle. o.o at least i passed a cute "let."

so then i ask another lady for directions and she tells me to take the bus up to the tube station i would've, should've gotten off at but tells me to take it in the wrong direction. but just to make sure she was giving me the right directions i read all of the signs (still got super confused) but managed to go the right direction. but guess what! i got off a stop early. so now i'm really

confused. i walk around puzzled and end up seeing a train station. i'm like...fuck where the hell is the tube? turns out to be in the train station. go me! so i get on the tube to go exactly 1 stop. *sigh* i then get off where i was supposed to and then catch another bus to go down to my hostel. though the traffic is incredibly bad. so what would've been a half hour walk turns into a 2 hour bus ride. and if that wasn't bad enough there is no a/c in the busses. so it was soooooo hot. like...20 degrees hotter in the bus then outside. i don't think my pasta is still good but i'm going to eat it anyway.

there's a little town close to where i'm staying called "world's end" i find it hilarious because the name is on every shop on the street. the clock's hands just keep spinning and spinning, they don't stop. pretty awesome.

so i finally made it back and now i'm relaxing, drinking the rest of my sparkling water (which i

don't like) as well as a

j2o to wash the taste down. if your ever in london i highly

recommend it. it's really fruity and very delicious.