If only the pound was the same as the dollar, shopping would be so much more fun.

Tuesday 19 October 2010
Intro to Branding class was in the morning. The more we get into this class, the more I wish I would have taken a higher level course. We have been in class several weeks now and I really haven't gotten any new information. It was just difficult registering for classes to choose because the education system is much different here.

The UK's "high school" is called "college" and it is not set up like ours. They begin doing classes related to their major when they are high school age. As they get older, students slowly narrow down their choices of a career path so when they are in college they have already had a couple years of education in that field. I was just apprehensive about being behind since this module is a "level 2" module. So it is for sophomore level students, but they have already done these types of classes for a couple years. Anyway, I am doing just fine. Granted I have yet to start on the semester long research paper. I'm not worried. I have started reading for it.

After lunch and epic blog time (Italy trip) I went to my internship module at one of the downtown campuses. It was awful, as usual. It's the professor's first year teaching it. She is "Career Coach". I'm really not sure what that even means?? She's understanding that we all don't want to be at this class. She tries to make it as painless as possible. The class is all Americans who have internships in London so it's cool hearing about their experiences since most of them are much different than mine. Most work in a very small office of like 15 people. Quite different than the skyscrapers of Canary Wharf.

I met my friend Christine for dinner after class (we are both in the Internship module). We attempted to hit up a Mexican restaurant near Soho (the young, hip part of London). It was a large fail. We had a 50% discount so that was the main motivation for choosing it. The food was very sub-par. Basically bagged nacho chips with bland guacamole, splats of sour cream, beans and dribbles of a sad excuse for salsa. I guess I will just have to take a trip to Spain this semester to get some true spicy food! Not kidding. :)

We went shopping after dinner and I bought a pair of very British shoes. They are called "Oxford" style shoes. Google it. I'm not sure if I will keep them, we will see. I do like them, but just buyer's remorse now I guess. Everything is so expensive compared to home. I just can't let go of how much money I am actually spending. A 30 pound pair of shoes is actually over $50 dollars. Yikes.  Still, it's shopping in LONDON so it's fun, even it is just window shopping.