Yesterday, the weather was nice. The sky's clear and no rain drops are in sight. I found a beautiful edition of Shakespeare's The Sonnets and A Lover's Complaint and there's a sale at the Body Shop, so I took it as a good omen that my stay here would be a very pleasant and fruitful one. We walked all the way from Whitcomb Street to Trafalgar Square and then straight on to Westminster. The lawns there were very green that I cannot believe at first they were real - but they were, There was a lot of people in Westminster, probably taking advantage of the great weather, and me and my friends spent a good fifteen minutes trying to find the perfect shot of Big Ben. We walked to the London Bridge. Seeing the rolling, brown Thames River made me heady and my legs shook. I kept worrying that I somehow I'd be thrown to the river or my friends' phones would be thrown to the river. I felt sick and I couldn't enjoy the view as much as I wanted.
Next, we walked to Covent Garden. My friend wanted to buy a MacBook for his brother and we tagged along. I stopped at Waterstones in Trafalgar Square to ostensibly buy a couple of books that my mom wanted me to buy, but I ended up not buying them and bought instead the beautiful copy of Shakespeare's The Sonnets and A Lover's Complaint I told you earlier. We then walked again, passing the English National Opera, where I heard a guy singing the opera. It's insane really how London sounded. Most books described its smell and buildings, but I couldn't recall a book that described how it sounded like. Multiple languages spoken, dance music played by street performers, an aria sung from inside of a building that's heard to the street, construction noises, foreign-accented British accent - that's how London sounded.
My friend didn't buy the MacBook because it's more expensive here, but I ended up buying a shower gel that only costed me 3 pounds. In Indonesia, I think it would've costed me the equivalent of 10 pounds. We ate at this Italian restaurant and I ordered carbonara, but I forgot how big these Westerner's portions were (seriously: how do you guys eat?) and I didn't finish it all. It was delicious tho. My friend asked for blackpepper and the waiter brought this big ass pepper grounder and directly sprinkled the pepper to our plates.
It's currently 5:28 and there's tea brewing in the kitchen. I think it's time for me to sign off. Good morning from London.
