Once I was finished with classes for the week on Wednesday evening, I walked over to Imperial college for my school FIE’s welcome reception/party. My friends and I were somehow the first ones there so we just stood around awkwardly for a few minutes until everyone else got there. The party had free food and drinks (alcoholic included) for all the students. It was pretty cool and weird to be at a party hosted by your school that includes free beer and wine (take notes from FIE, American).
On Thursday afternoon everyone was either in class or taking a nap so I decided to take a walk around the area by myself for a while. I ended up at the worlds famous Harrods, which is about a 15-20 minute walk from Metrogate House. For my entire life I always pictured Harrods to be just like Macys in Herald Square in New York City and I could have not been more wrong. Macys is just a very large store taking up an entire block, but everything is at prices that the average New Yorker can afford. Harrods, which also takes up an entire block, is a massive LUXURY store. The interior of the store was basically like the interior of a palace complete with large paintings, crystal chandeliers and stained glass ceilings in the food courts. I don’t think I could have afforded anything in Harrods, except a few chocolate bars, which I bought just to say I purchased something there. The most impressive part of the store was the food hall, which contains some of the most colorful and decadent displays of food I have ever seen. Each room of the hall was a different food category such as the meat room, the bakery and the confectionary. I think I died and went to heaven in both the confectionary and bakery sections.
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| Harrods! |
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| Egyptian Themed Interior |
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| Harrods Confectionery |
Thursday night everyone had tickets (provided for free by FIE) to see a show on London’s West End, which is basically equivalent to Broadway in New York. I had a ticket to see “Blood Brothers” a show that I have never heard of before but happens to be one of London’s longest running shows. Although I am not much of a theatre fan, I did enjoy the show for what it was. The show tells the story about two fraternal twins who are separated at birth and one grows up in a struggling home when the other is brought up by a wealthy family. Eventually they become friends and fall in love with the same girl, resulting in their death. The music had a cheesy 80’s feel to it and my only complaint was that the music was too loud which made the actors a bit hard to hear. Overall, it was a good experience.
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| Pheonix Theatre- Blood Brothers |
-Rees
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