The exhibits of the story museum were created by asking authors of children's books who their favorite character was when they were a child, and then dressing them up as it in a photograph. In every display of photograph, the room was decorated to look just like the setting of the book, a fun way to introduce kids to different genres and stories without them even knowing! It was a really creative way to introduce literacy which as a future teacher, I am always looking for! Here are some pictures from it (including me being crowned and going through the wardrobe to narnia):
Also: today in London there was a major protest by the public bus drivers that was a big deal and caused a lot of traffic and public transit problems. Google it for more information, it is pretty interesting stuff (and exciting to see the process of protest in a foreign country first hand).
Next we visited The Bear, our one group meal together. I had the fish and chips which disappointingly had bones in it and too much skin for my American taste buds, but was not bad.
Last, we saw the second largest library in Great Britain, the Bodelian Library at Oxford. It has over 12 million items! Also it is where the hospital scenes in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone were filmed as well as the scenes in the library, as the books date back to some of the first dictionaries, copies of the Magna Carta (that's for you Collin 🙌 go Jay-Z) and even the last transmission of the Titanic before it sank which read something like "Please send assistance, the weather is well" but I can't remember exactly what the woman said now (Wayne Pittsley feel free to correct me, lol).
This is a famous reading room called the Radcliffe Camera:
I don't think I would be able to get any studying done there- it's too pretty and there's way too much to see.
I ended off the night seeing jersey boys, and had to actually run from our apartments to the theatre to make it in time because our bus was late. After that, to our pleasant surprise, the theatre had upgraded our tickets because they didn't sell very many! I went from the second to last row of the section to just 10 rows from the stage. The show was incredible, and I had never seen it before! I thought they did a lovely job and would love to see it again sometime. It was so fun, we were dancing in our seats by the end! Oh what a night!
Yup, the strike. that was part of the reason (okay the main reason) why it took us so long to get anywhere. The bus drivers told everyone that they were going on strike at 4 PM that night, so everyone who takes the bus decided that they should drive to work even though they have to pay a fee. That's right. To drive into the city of London Monday to Friday, everyone has to pay a "congestion fee" or pay a fine. Google this as well; I thougt it was really interesting. Our first bus driver says it definitely keeps him from driving into London. One time his friend was stranded, so without thinking he drove in to pick him up. He usually only drives the bus into London, so he didn't remember. I think he said the fine was about 50 pounds, which would be about $75!
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