DAYS 90, 91, AND 92. FROZEN. BRAVE.

DAYS 90, 91, AND 92. Frozen. Brave. Well, I made it to day ninety. Ninety days in London, Ninety more to go. The half way point has been reached. I've had great days, challenging days, exciting days, rough days, normal days and amazing days. Its been quite the adventure. I am glad I am here. Its not like I thought I would find myself here, or be a completely different person, I know who I am and I am who I am. Day 90 Wednesday morning was found bright and early (actually it wasn't bright as the sun wasn't up yet) in the classroom finishing off the celebration cake. My inspiration cake I found on line was a simple white base, with a red ribbon with stars wrapping itself around the cake. The cake I actually completed was a base of marbled green and white (kind of like a Dr. Seuss marbled look) with red flowers wrapping itself along one side up to some pine trees (in the shape of cones) with one star on top. Completely different than where I thought it was going to be. It turned out pretty good. Chef Arizona walked through the room and said that it needed a border between the cake and the base board. I tried to do a tiny border of red marzipan, but it was not holding itself together, so it turned out to be bigger than needed/wanted border. Oh well. It turned out pretty alright in the end. The school required that we clean out our lockers and take everything home with us for the break for a "deep clean" of the locker rooms. So I packed up all my things, and carried a cake home with me. Some of us decided to go to dinner rather than lunch as we had so much stuff with us. I was so tired by the time I got home. So was everyone else apparently we all took naps. I woke up with 20 minutes to get ready and meet up for dinner. The meeting place was the most interesting one yet "The entrance to King's Cross Station" --- if you've never been there before there are multiple entrances and we were all at different ones. Ha. We eventually all found each other. 3/5 actually got out of bed and came. I've travelled through Kings Cross Station on the tube, but never got out on the street before today. As we walked through the station to get to our dinner destination, we passed the infamous King's Cross 9 3/4 Platform of Harry Potter. They have a wall/photo area for tourists to take pictures with. Shoot, when in London, do as the tourists, and take a picture. There were two girls there who were taking pictures "as a free service" and if you wanted to pic them up you could buy them at the neighboring Harry Potter Gift Shop. Luckily we took great iPhone shots that we didn't need to buy the picture at the gift shop for twenty pounds. The shop had wands, scarves, mugs, shirts, lots of things Harry Potter. Nice quick stop for the night. We went to our dinner place, the wait was too long, so we kept looking for a new place. We eventually found a pub with mediocre food to suffice. Good conversation, good fun, but we were all ready to call it a night. Day 91. Thursday. A day to be normal and clean my room and do laundry. Seriously its a mess. I haven't had time to properly tidy up with school and studying being at the most random of hours. I got up just to go buy laundry detergent, as i know that the washing machine takes two hours a load, I needed to get an early start. I organized my drawers, receipts, food supply, you know really exciting things. My reward for myself was a trip to the movie theatre...oooooohhhhh. I got my ticket from the concession area at the theatre. The worker asked if I wanted VIP or Standard. Shoot has it really been that long since I've been to the cinema that I don't know what he was talking about? VIP=reserved reclining seats. Standard = regular seat. I got a regular seat, and still got to pick my seat....something I've never done before. I saw the Hunger Games. It was alright. After that I hopped on the tube and joined some of my classmates at Hyde Park for Winter Wonderland. They were going to go ice skating, I wanted to just watch. They wanted me to join. They bought me a ticket. I went really slow. I didn't fall once. I enjoyed myself. Poland kept complementing me on my bravery. Ha. She must really appreciate my skating style. My skating style is this: Left foot solidly on the ice while Right foot does all the paddling/movement. It's been my technique for years, it works. Shoot its not everyday that I can Ice Skate in Hyde Park. Good Times. Day 92. Friday. Certificate Ceremony at school. After each level (Basic, Intermediate, Superior) of completion, there is a ceremony to get your certificate. As we are on the fast track, we didn't get a ceremony for Basic, so this was our first. The room was packed with people. I was surprised at how many people go to this school. The locker room is pretty packed, but not as packed as this. The principal gave a speech going over the highlights of the term & the successful things that the chefs had been doing outside of the classrooms. After that, we were called up by group to get our certificate. Our group (of 5 that had not left the country yet or gotten out of bed) was last, which meant I was last. After that they had a wine, orange juice, or water to offer everyone. Malta, Poland, California, and I headed for Asian food afterwards for a celebration lunch. I got "vegetarian chicken" --it looked so real I thought it was a mistake. Malta tried it and assured me it was tofu. After that we were all a bit tired. I headed home. I've been trying to make plans to do something for the next week, and I should have booked tickets weeks ago but didn't. So now I just over analyze where I could be going/doing but doing nothing but sitting in my bed. I saw that there was a Hyde Park singles activity going on at the National Museum, so I headed over, got there a bit late (as someone had fallen on the tracks and it took sometime to get them off so the tube was stuck) couldn't find them so I enjoyed the art in the museum for the evening before going back home and still not finalizing any plans as to what to do for the next 8 days. Any ideas are greatly appreciated. And needed.