Wednesday:
On Wednesday, we had appointments all morning at Dr. Gibb's office. At around 9, we went to the hospital to induce labor for a Russian woman. Her water broke two nights before, so she had to be induced. She was a very calm, sweet lady. She seemed to have the upperhand with her husband, but anyway. We went back to check on her at 1pm and she was well into labor with the contractions and such. She was wrenching with terrible pain and couldn't get comfortable. We met with her and I observed her, the midwife, etc. She was planning to have the birth without drugs, but I just didn't see how she was going to do it. Later, at about 4, we went back and she still had not made enough progress. She was literally exhausted and still having terrible contractions. She finally decided to have an epidural. Good for her. I decided right then and there that when I have children later in life, they better be ready to pile the drugs on. Ha. No pain for me! It looked horrible!
Anyway, we went back to the office in between each visit to the hospital (it was a lot of walking!) and had appointments on and off all day. At about 7, we went to the hospital again. That baby was in no mood to visit us. Dr. Gibb checked her and she still had a ways to go. I ended up going home at 8:30pm and I heard the next day that she delivered at 1:30am! Poooor lady! At least she had drugs! I was a little miffed that I didn't get to see the delivery, though. Oh well, maybe next time.
Thursday:
For the most part, today was boring. We had class from 9:30am until around 5pm. We did have an awesome speaker at the end, though. His name was Graham Brady and he is a member of the Conservative Party of Parliament. He told us the general ins and outs and compared and contrasted our two countries. He then answered all of our questions. It was quite interesting. I enjoyed hearing about their socialized medicine and what he thought the best idea was for our future healthcare. He did have this one annoying hair, though. It was just hanging around his forehead and was totally misplaced. He kept pushing his hair back and always missed that piece. Ugh. Haha..
That night, we decided to go out. Tori, Liz, and I met Spencer in the tube station and we all headed to a place called Sports Cafe. We heard it was a fun, hot spot. Apparently, not on Thursday nights when it is raining. It was pretty empty when we got there. They had some cocktail specials going on so we sipped a few(?)--haha-- and left. We weren't ready to go home so we thought we would just walk around the area and find another bar/pub. We stumbled upon a CLUB called Tiger. Tiger. Tori had gone there a week ago with her man friend, but didn't really have much to say about it. Soooo, we ventured in. It was a 5 pound cover, which isn't too bad, so we tried it out. I have to say that we weren't really mentally/physically prepared for a club. We weren't dressed to the nines and weren't quite sure what we were getting ourselves into. Let me just say, it was quite hilarious really. I can't exactly describe with words what all we saw, but the crowd was interesting to say the least. We walked around a bit, people watched, had a few drinks, danced for like 2.5 seconds, were manhandled a tad more than we wanted to be, and then left. Finding a bus that would take us to Baker Street wasn't an easy feat, so we stopped off at McDonald's. Woopsie:) It was de-lish. We waited outside of Mickey D's until the next bus came that we needed. We got home safely and made sure that Spencer did the same.
Friday:
In the morning, we had to watch some dumb movie that Dr. Hardin had picked out. We were all exhausted from getting in late the night before so we struggled to stay awake for the movie. I'm pretty sure Liz clapped at the end because she was so thrilled that it was over...not because it was good. We slept alllll afternoon. It really was blissful. We woke up and almost croaked when we saw that it was 5:30pm. haha..I guess our bodies needed it! I'm not one to fight my own self! haha...So...here comes the fun part.
You see, our landlord STILL had not gotten our washing machine fixed. Therefore, I was running out of clothes -- fast. I am pretty sure that I wore what I slept in to class on Friday. Real classy, right? I couldn't help it! AND I was afraid Liz was about to start digging in my underwear drawer. We were desperate. We finally got word back from our internship/trip director and she said that the landlord was going to pay us back if we had to go to a launderette (laundromat). Great. Just what I want to do. Lug two weeks worth of clothes to a coin-laundry. Not to mention, the closest launderette was a tube stop away --- meaning that we stuffed all of our clothes into suitcases and had to ride the tube and walk for a total of about 25 minutes. We also stopped and got 20 pounds out of the cash machine (figuring that was a gross overestimate of what we needed). Boy, were we wrong. I ended up having 4 loads of laundry for a cool 4 pounds each to just wash. Then, it was 50pence for 7.5 minutes in the dryer. It ended up costing roughly 20 pounds (aka $36) for us to do laundry. RIDICULOUS! Needless to say, we were not in the best of moods when we left so we just went home and passed out.
Saturday:
We still had plenty on our list of things to do in London, so we thought we would try to tackle a few. First, we went to the Camden flea market. We had heard good things from a few people about it, so we were excited to go check it out. I'm not sure if those people were on drugs at the time, or if we happened to go on the wrong day (doubtful), but it wasn't all that it was hyped up to be. We were surrounded by emo/punk teenagers and hippie looking people. It reminded me of a weird version of China Town -- minus the Asians. Nevertheless, I was able to find a purse, ring, and a pair of sunglasses. They were all very cheap and cute! Liz bought a few things, as well. Tori was just ready to peace out as quickly as possible.
After Camden, we went to the Natural History Museum. It is gigantic. There are tons of exhibits and each of the exhibits are extensive. I really had been wanting to go there to see the Human Biology exhibit, of course. Tori wanted to see the Dinosaurs and Liz, well, Liz hates museums and made sure we knew it the whole time. She was a trooper, though. The biology exhibit was pretty neat but after you have seen the real Bodies Exhibit, nothing quite lives up to it. It was very informative and would be great for teaching purposes. The dinos were a different story. It was soooooo crowded and it was hard to even get a good look at the skeletons. Oh well.. We got home rather late in the afternoon so we cooked a yummy dinner and watched a movie together. Hoorah for a summer of girls nights!
I will pick back up with Sunday tomorrow! Or maybe later tonight! At least I got a few days in....
Peace and love,
Abbie
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