Scene 20: A Backtracking

Alrighty, so.

After I left the London Eye Hostel I went back to the Blue Skies.

There I met some very lovely people, who (since I've taken so long to write this) I no longer remember.

Anyway.

Since I last updated this it's been 14 days/two weeks, which in travel-time is like saying a semester of school has gone by. At the end of it people ask, "What'd you do? Who'd you meet? Was it fun?"

And you're nodding, "Yes," while you wonder, "What on earth did I just do for an entire semester?"

You know you learned, you know you met great people, you know you did amazing things, you just... aren't sure what you learned exactly, and what was that person's name again?, and "Yeah, we had an awesome time! We... we... um... it was great!"

So basically what I'm trying to do is get out of not remembering what my life has been like the past two weeks. Working? Didn't think so. I'll try my best.

After the Blue Skies was the Astor Quest Hostel in Bayswater. Bayswater is right next to Paddington and sits on top of Kensington, right above Hyde Park. If you start at Bayswater and walk right you'll hit Notting Hill gate.

Interesting things that happened at the Astor Quest:

1. First night there, met a Canadian named Nita. We discovered a restaurant named the Waffle Palace. When her waffle came, it was so covered in whipped cream that you couldn't see it. Mine had so much chocolate on it it was not actually a waffle. It was a Belgian chocolate bar with a hint of waffle.

2. Queensway street is long. It has two separate tube stops on it about 100 yards apart. But why?

3. My suitcase broke. This was not my fault. It just wasn't built for cobblestones and staircases. Luckily, there were plenty of slightly sketchy stores on Queensway that sold luggage and I got a replacement. A slightly smaller, navy blue replacement. All the items that had been in my old suitcase that I was done with (or wouldn't fit) I mailed home. I won't disgrace my blog with how much that cost.

4. I saw Transformers 3 with Allison. I laughed a lot. More than anyone else in the theater. It wasn't the best movie, but it wasn't the worst, and I got a kick out of it. Rosie Whateverherlastnameis was... pretty.

5. I went back to Waffle Palace with Allison. And get this: a guy from UNC told me that his great uncle used to own it. WHAT?

6. I met a lovely girl from Ole Miss. We watched The Blind Side together and she told me she'd met one of the characters. Random. (Wonderful, fantastic, amazing movie, by the way.) She was really sweet and she wore around a fake wedding band while traveling-- like me. Ha! She thought it was hysterical.

7. I read a lot.

8. I drank a lot of coffee.

9. I met two other nice women- one from France and one from Italy (Naples). Holding a conversation with them was fun. It's always interesting to learn about other countries from someone born there.

10. People keep asking if I'm from New Zealand. I really need to work on maintaing my normal speech.


I know I've forgotten things. When I remember them, they shall be posted.


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