1/9/09 imperial war museum and running from chinese

Had class from 9-12 and travelled by bus for the first time, which seems like the easiest way to get to class from now on. Andrew, Dean, and I headed out to the Imperial War Museum by tube around 3ish. The museum was huge and had so much information about every armed conflict since World War I it was overwhelming.

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There was an interactive World War I trench that you could walk through, complete with wounded soldiers and shells exploding overhead, really put into perspective the claustrophobic living hell that is trench warfare.

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There was also an interactive exhibit that displayed the devastation of London during the blitz bombings of World War II, it really gave you a feel for the fear and helplessness felt by Londoners back then.

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There was a very extensive exhibit dedicated to the Holocaust that was particularly moving, it described in tremendous detail the socioeconomic pressures leading to Hitler's rise to power and his media manipulation that allowed him to turn the public against the Jews. There was a model recreation of a concentration camp that was so large it had its own room, as a harsh reminder of the terrible atrocities committed during Hitler's regime.

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We came back and found out the SU flats below us got a noise violation for last night and Davis was pretty livid about the whole thing. Poor Dean (who just arrived yesterday) got chewed out because apparently we were all living in the wrong flats, but Davis handed all the keys to us on the first day and gave us the wrong sets of keys. Andrew even bent the key in the door of flat 46 trying to get in because they were the wrong keys, so we just assumed Davis meant flat 45 as we were also listed that way on the contact info.

We headed out to Picadilly Circus and got kind of lost on the way to the club/bar O'Neal's. By the time we finally found it, I was tired as hell and just wanted to get some food and head back to the flats. JJ, Nate, and I really wanted Chinese food, but most of the restaurants were closed, and we wandered into some Chinese Restaurant that looked kind of fancy. We just wanted to see the menu, but we got seated right away, and then realized everything there was way too expensive so we went to the bathroom quick and then left. Apparently JJ and Nate got yelled at by some Chinese guy who wasn't too happy about it.

We went across the street to a "Sushi to go" place and grabbed some sushi that was fairly decent. We then hopped on the night bus back towards the flat, stopped at McDonald's for some more food, and then went back to the flats and to bed.