Our program right now is twelve people, but half way through the summer another group of Drexel students will be coming and joining us. Because of that we have classes in two sessions, 2 classes each session. The first session of classes I am taking History of Modern Design and British Culture and Visual Media. The twelve of us are in the same classes which is nice since these aren't the type of classes I generally take.
Monday we had History of Modern Design at 9 am to 1 pm. From looking at the syllabus she tries to break up the class time in between lecture and field trips. The first day we went to the Victoria and Albert Museum. She took us into the British Galleries and we choose a piece from a specific period of time and then researched the style, function, and other important things about the piece. It is interesting but again, I am a little worried considering this class is extremely different from classes that I am used too.
Tuesday we had British Culture and Visual Media at 9 am to 1 pm. Again, our professor was very interesting. This class was more up my alley, or at least it held my interest more. He spoke to the differences between Great Britain, the United Kingdom, and the relationship between all of the countries that are part of the UK.
Foundation House, where our classes are held.
I have started planning weekend trips with people so far I am going to Stonehenge, Brighton and Wales through FIE and we have plans to take trips to Dublin, Scotland, and Amsterdam. Also Dad and I have started planning his trip and it includes time in Paris! Aside from those trips I am hoping that on my free days during the week I can take day trips to Cambridge, Oxford, and Greenwich.
Speaking of the rest of my time here, we did a side trip to Soho at Oxford Circle the other day. We had the end point of a vintage store that one of the girls in the program heard about, but on our journey there we found a few fun things.
Attempting to figure out where to walk.
Johnny Cupcakes, Andre this is for you!
On the instruction from a local, we ended up walking down the wrong street from Oxford Circle. However, it was okay since we ended up going to Liberty of London, where I bought a gift, and saw some really beautiful things that I don't think I would ever be able to afford, but it was fun to look! We also realized that the British do not understand our sarcasm all of the time. On of the girls with us asked about the price on a necklace and sarcastically asked if it was cheaper if it is a gift. Instead of a smile we got a plain, "No, same price if it is a gift." No smile.
We finally figured out that we were heading in the wrong direction so we back tracked and found out way to the store. I ended up buying two scarves for 3 and 5 pounds, pretty affordable for London I've found.
The end point, Absolute Vintage. I ended up buying two silk scarves.
One of the scarves.
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