think i'm kickin the cold!

i've been drinking orange juice, and eating very healthily lately, plus taking cough-drops, and blowing my nose whenever i feel the need, and i think the result is that i'm starting to feel well again! like always (i think its going to be the routine), sunday night and monday night are busy, because i've got my big classes on monday and tuesday. so tonight i get to blog... not really much to catch up on.

we've been finalizing our spring break plans: looks like we're going to go to madrid, spain for the first weekend of the break, then fly to roma, italy. we're going to spend the most time there, about 4 days, then take the train to florence, and fly out of pisa on sunday night (pisa is pretty close to florence). will we see the leaning tower? if its convenient. i've heard everybody and their mother say that its just turned into a huge tourist trap, much like niagra falls. so its going to be a pretty busy little week, but we got some great deals on places to stay and flights, so its not really expensive! it'll be a nice little break for us.

speaking of plans: su got its hands on 35 tickets for a football (soccer) game this weekend, and they're offering them to the first 35 people at the student services office on thursday morning! so i'm going to be waking up really early thursday and i might camp out a little but to get these tickets! apparently, its sooo hard to get tickets to games, and the game will be a really good experience, and su is taking over 50% off the price of them... so pretty much, i'm very excited for that this weekend!

this last weekend, on sunday we went to camden markets, which was an experience. london is full of markets, portebello market, burough market, spittlefields market... and they all offer different things. this one was high on clothing (vintage) (used), high on food, from all over the world, and high on the nick-nacks. lots of gothic stores with chains and stuff, lots of just, crap. but some stuff was interesting, some of the clothes were really cool. i almost bought a hooded sweater, with a fleece lining, but it was like 40 pounds, which is ridiculous. lots of jewlery here. it was huge, it was a combination of so many streets. it was crazy.

here's some pictures of the main drag... where every little side street kind of goes off into its own labrynth of retail.




























also this weekend on saturday was the big muslim rally. i hate to say this, but it was really scary. we waited till after the rally was over to run our errands (we went to the tate britain museum (just like the louvre) and then we went (in the rain) to try and find a church, st. joe's, then we found it a little bit late, and the only door (we peeked in) was RIGHT next to the alter, so we gave up), but when we did go out, the muslims were DENSE! and i can't help but think that they a. hate americans, and b. can tell that we're american.. so i have no idea what they might do! it was really frightening, but it turns out that everything was alright, so no worries.

in other news: i tried some gum that they have over here (i think its exclusive to europe and not in the states), and its flavored like coca-cola! it was the craziest trip that my mouth has ever been on! it was a little bit "fruitier" than coke, but it still had the taste. and it was brown too. it was crazy.

listened to the su game last night against west virginia - what a great game.... im really sad that g-mac is leaving. i hope everyone goes to the villanova game. it would be unbelievable if we won.

i think thats all for this update... as well as going to the football game saturday, we're going to try and get into the field trip thats going to the town of bath on friday. i love the su field trips, cuz they're free, and they're a great time. so this weekend will be a great one, hopefully get some pics up on the internet!