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Pictures from My trip to Chicago / Airport

Shep was very excited about my arrival.

Shep's apartment building...pretty fancy, eh?

random building in chicago. startin' off my tourist mindset.

We were VERY excited to finally eat some food. As you can tell from Kelsey's face.

Pictures from thus far in London [condensed]

I wasn't quite sure if I was in the UK yet, but alas I saw the roof of this car out of our coach window. Very reassuring.

Our residence Hall. [Better pictures at a later time, I promise]

Our residence hall can be seen through the foliage of this relaxing park. Perfect for quiet reads and half-naked hackysackers.

My first view of the UK.

My dorm room. It looks much different now.

The view from my dorm.

The park from outside the front entrance of our residence hall.

Some of the lovely crew in the pub in the basement of our dorm.

Birkbeck College - where we are taking our classes. It's about a 2 minute walk from our dorms.

Rear view of beautiful Birkbeck College.

St. Paul's Cathedral.

The stage at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre. So, so, soo absolutely amazing.

Jess wasn't very happy about the smell of the Thames River.

Bridge?

OMG WATCH OUT! I love this picture.

View from the Free Standing area on Court 2 that we waited FOREVER at. The Williams Sisters were playing.

So...story:

Jess and I were completely fed up with the fact that all the courts were repeatedly tarp-covered and inflated with no play due to the rain. We stood in the Free Standing area to watch the Williams sister for over an hour and a half and we saw NO play. So we wimped out and decided to leave; we were both exhausted and ready to pass out.

On our way out, we decided to at least go take a LOOK at the giant court #1. (the one they usually show on TV). Jess talked the security guard into letting us go take a look and just see it because they were just warming up anyway. I then asked the security guard how much seats like this would cost. He picked up on my indirect request for free seats, and pointed Jess and me to TWO EMPTY SEATS! We got moved around a few times because the true owners of the seats showed up, but he was very cooperative and generous. These seats go for about 80 pounds per, and we paid only 17 pounds for ground seats. Good deal, eh? Wonderful deal, indeed.

Many pictures I was planning on posting have somehow been lost, but I'll eventually find them.

I've been hogging internet from my friend Sheila and I feel bad so I'm gettin' outta here.

Now you're all caught up. phew. not really, but close enough.


Cheers,

evan.

PS, for another perspective of the Study Abroad trip, check out my friend Sheila's BLOG