Monday was a day full of studying (writing my paper for Spooks & Spies) and class.
It was great to take a break then, and see Transformers 3 in 3D with Kate, Danny and Sam for Danny's 21st birthday. They were complimentary tickets that we were able to get from the cinema messing up our tickets for Harry Potter.
The movie was great! It was a lot of fun and quite funny (even if it didn't mean to be). Transformers was also really intense and the CGI was just fantastic.
At midnight, Kate and I came with party poppers to do a mini celebration at midnight.
12 JUL, TUESDAY:
After turning in my paper, we were able to celebrate Danny's 21st Birthday in true Cambridge style. We first went to the Junior Parlor (very similar to the pub at UCI) and had a bunch of people meet up to go to a pub. It was a really good time and it was also a nice way to celebrate the almost end of midterms (I already studied earlier for my midterm on Wednesday).
I would also like to take this short part of the week to start giving shoutouts to all the sweet Program Assistants (PAs) that are reading my blog. First one I'll do is Joe, who has always been there when Kate and I go out and really watches out for us (it was because of him that we were able to get to the hostel from Fabric in London). He's also letting me borrow his robes for the Harry Potter preimere! The best.
13 JUL, WEDNESDAY:
I officially finished midterms on Wednesday, which was really nice. Everyone had the second Formal Hall, which would have been really fun to go to, except for the fact that I went to see a speaker which was required for my Spooks & Spies class.
The speaker was Sir Richard Dearlove of is the Master of Pembroke College and the previous head of the MI6. There were many students from the "Pembroke-King's College Program" (aka PKP) and then there was the 40 or so kids from my class (everyone else was at Formal Hall). He was an interesting guy, but his actual talk was pretty general. He wasn't going to give anything away (he's obviously knows how to keep a secret!). What really disappointed were the questions that were asked. Honestly, it was a bunch of pretentious students who were trying to show off what they knew, and some had no idea what they were really asking. They were asking questions that weren't very interesting either - I really wanted to know about what it was like to be head of MI6 during 9/11 and being one of the head people instigating the war in Iraq.
Overall, it wasn't a bad experience and I definitely don't regret going to it. Since my class missed Formal Hall, we have a make up one just in our class on 25th of July, so that'll be fun. :)
14 JUL, THURSDAY:
This day is probably the most important day in my whole trip in England. This is the pinnacle of the end of my childhood and the end of an amazing impact in my life. Obviously, I'm talking about Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows Part 2. The movie itself was emotional - I cried in the same spot that I did in the book (when Harry realizes that he must die) and it was hard to think that this was really the end. Kate and I decided to go ALL out and dress up. We were having different ideas, before I decided that I wanted to be Bellatrix Lestrange and she was going to be Harry Potter. During previous premieres I have been Harry Potter, a Ron-obsessed girl and Hermione Granger. It was great to draw a Dark Mark and wear Joe's robes.
Poor Sam and Danny had no idea what they were getting themselves into when it came to Kate, me and Harry Potter. It was such an amazing experience, but I really feel like I need to see the movie again (People back home - who's down?!)
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| Harry Potter & Bellatrix Lestrange at Pembroke! |
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| The greatest battle of Good versus Evil! |
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| Emotional that it's all over. |
15 JUL, FRIDAY: LONDON
The awesome foursome (Kate, Sam, Danny and myself) decided to do something a little crazy to end our halfway point here at Cambridge. We pulled an all nighter to go to Fabric (the club we went to on the London trip last week) and see some cool DJs that Kate, Sam and Danny all know pretty well.
We were able to get a really nice group rate of £15 per train ticket (round trip) to and from London. The club closed at around 6:00 AM and the first train back to Cambridge was at 4:40, so there was plenty of time to figure out how to get back.
The club was really fun, but we were definitely tired by 5:00, so we somehow figured how to get back to King's Cross (we had to find a taxi at 5:00 in the morning - that's nearly impossible) and made it back to Cambridge at 7:00 AM on Saturday.
It's definitely one of those few, rare experiences that I won't be able to do again (an all nighter at one of the best clubs in the world and then be able to sleep in my own bed?).
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| Kate and I on the train to King's Cross in London |
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| The greatest friends - getting ready to go inside Fabric! |
I've definitely putting the 'study' in study abroad this week. With two midterms and lots of classes, it makes it hard to NOT realize that we are here for classes. It was a pretty fun week otherwise, especially since I have been looking forward to Harry Potter for so long!
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