Where has the time gone?

What a busy couple of weeks it has been since I last found time to update this blog.

I got to go and see my first West End theater show - War Horse. The horses were done with puppets, and they were done very well! It was a very impressive show, and nice to see everyone around me crying - I managed to leave with dry eyes. Maybe that says a bad thing about me though!

With long weekends approaching and having a serious case of itchy feet, I have started planning a few weekends away. I am flying out to Amsterdam on Friday for the weekend, a big group of us are going, so it should be a very fun weekend. Of course I will tell you all about it. Easter weekend is the weekend following, so me and Pete are heading to Brighton for a couple of nights to see what's happening down there. I am hoping that the weather is nice since we'll be staying right across from the beach. Jess and I are heading to Manchester at the end of April as well, she's been there before and said that it's gorgeous, so it will be a nice girly weekend away. As I start getting back on track with money I will start booking more and more trips away. There is a lot to see and do in the next 2 years!

I am no longer a gypsy! My suitcase is well hidden in my room, and completely empty. I moved in to Earlsfield last weekend. I live with 4 other people, Becky and Jenny are English, Dave is from Scotland and Nicole is from Australia. Nicole and I have already discovered there is a lot to see and do, so we are going to organise a few trips away. I really like the area and my room, although my room is a loft conversion, so i have to crouch down in some parts of it. I do have my own bathroom though, with a toilet, basin and a bath. There is a shower head though, but it hangs up over the bath spouts like an old fashioned telephone, so have no attempted to have a shower with it yet. I don't know if my arm could take the weight for the duration of a whole shower, and washing my hair would be impossible.

A couple of weeks ago I ventured out to Camden on a Sunday which was absolutely packed. There are markets all over the place, and we went to a little bar that had a nice little roof top terrace (was a beautiful sunny day) and is where Amy Winehouse used to frequent, plus a few bars on the canal running through Camden. Very pretty! 

Scooter seats overlooking the waterway

Nom noms

Enjoying the sunshine

The graffiti in the toilets for Amy Winehouse

Rick introduced me to a website where you sign up to be audience's on TV shows, so Michelle and I went along to the filming of a pilot for a dating show called "Baggage". It was so hilarious, I was in tears at one part. I hope that it gets picked up and put on air, I can add it to the list of tragic TV shows I've started watching in the UK, and be even more excited in case we're seen in the audience. Wasn't all fun and games though, it was very hard work being the audience, had to be enthusiastic all of the time, smiling and clapping and doing loud reactions.

Apart from that I have been getting back in to real life and making the most of the good weather that London has put on for me (which includes a lot of picnic's in parks), and getting settled in to life and my new house. I am falling in love with London more and more each day. I know that I am already going to not want to leave when my visa is up next December...