London Class Trips

After getting back from Amsterdam we had our Monday Pop Culture class trip planned to the Chelsea Football Club (soccer) where we toured around their facilities and their unusually small stadium.

-being interviewed before our - just hanging in their locker room -view from the stands

big game

All I have is a bunch of pictures from it and someday I'll get to attend a real football game.

On Tuesday, we finally took out Jen to a show as her birthday gift--to Billy Elliott, the Musical. All I have is one picture from us in front of the Theater which was a Music Hall back in the day (things we're learning about in our Pop Culture class)

In front of the Victoria Theater

Then, on Wednesday, we took a trip to the Shell Headquarters (Shell is an Anglo-Dutch company) for our International Business class to hear them speak about their global business processes. This coincidentally happened a day before their year earnings releases and the depressing news that profits plummeted and even more people will lose their jobs at Shell in the coming year. We did get right up next to the London Eye for this visit and I snapped a few pictures from that day below:

-glum day in front of the London Eye -Shell Formula 1 car

Finally, (skipping over our weekend in Munich until the next entry) yesterday we went on a walking tour of Soho London in the wet and cold snow. Led by one of the other professors

Richard Wright who authors a London History book himself, we walked around the area for 2 hours. Some of the highlights include this mural to the left of all prevalent pop culture icons in Soho plastered on one of the side streets on Carnaby Street-the roots of London's men fashion. We got

to stop in one of the oldest 24/7 Cafe/Bar's in Soho called Bar Italia, which is right under the location where first broad-casted TV took place. All of us got a cup of coffee (paid for by BU...rare occasion) made out of the worlds first Espresso machine from Italy.

We then ventured down by the headquarters of Twentieth-Century Fox, located right next to Paul McCartney's residence and offices on Soho Square park. Then we headed down by Vogue

Europe to end up in front of Jimi Hendrix's residence when he lived in London. Coincidentally he lived right next to George Frederic Handel's residence of 200 years earlier. Our guide pointed out the irony in this coincidence because both of them could not make it in their own countries due to racial prejudices. The plaque shows the spot of his apartment and other blue circular plaques around Soho are for the numerous spots and people who were the movers and shakers of their day.

So its obvious I'm doing a lot of work for class..and this week is the last of our classes followed by our spring break then we start our internship. I'm sure my entries will get a little more dull then but I'll try and keep it lively.

Other planned trips for the semester include:

• Paris
• Brussels
• Madrid/Barcelona
• Morocco maybe
• Greece
• Scotland
• back to Amsterdam?

Aloha from London