I was rudely awakened by the fire alarm at 2 this morning, and we actually had to wait outside in the cold. This is about the 5th time it's gone off in about three days. Also, the shower or something is leaking into the other girl's room and now we're not supposed to use that shower until it's all fixed, so we're down to 11 girls sharing two showers. It's quite annoying.
Anyway, I went to the Victoria and Albert Museum and it was awesome. It's basically the museum of stuff. My favorite was the fashion exhibit, where they had displays of British fashion from the 1700s to now. They also had a ball gown display which looked awesome, but you have to pay to get in there so I didn't go in. There were also exhibits for all different parts of the world with different things from all different time periods.
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| Dishes from the Middle East from several hundred years ago. |
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| Swords from India from several hundred years ago. |
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| Roman sculptures and designs, also from several hundred years ago. |
For class today we took a field trip to the BBC! We started off in the news part of the network, and they told us it is funded by viewers through a license fee everyone has to pay for their TV. During their newscast they don't have any commercials, so they actually have a full 30 minute newscast. Sports and weather are shown at the very end and together they take up less than 5 minutes. Compare that to America, where our newscasts are also 30 minutes long but they only have about 12 minutes of news content, and we air weather towards the very beginning and repeat it several times. So kudos to Britain for coming up with a solid 25 minutes of news. We continued the tour through the whole building, which is shaped like a question mark so the main part of the building is actually a complete circle, and looked at the studios and dressing rooms. The best part was we got to keep our visitor badges! Yay for free souvenirs!
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