"yeah, i'm a third year at uni"

yeah, they don't call it "college" here. or "school". it's "uni".

so, my fashion classes are a piece of cake. drawing and illustration is really fun because i'm actually learning how to draw instead of getting yelled at every ten seconds for not knowing how to draw like my last drawing class (ahem, i think kate, emma, and emilie will appreciate that, and several other people if they happen to see my blog). my professor is helping me find what i'm good at and is teaching me to build on those strengths, so i feel like i'm actually succeeding! woo!

i also love my visual merchandizing class (i dropped digital product development in exchange for this...best decision ever). basically, we are getting graded to look at window displays and talk about them and why they are pretty. OK.

fashion journalism and photography are both eh. neither of them are particularly challenging so i'm having a hard time wanting to sit through them for four hours each. but i guess that just means i'll get high marks! yeah, they don't say "grades", either.

[holding the reflector in photo]

my last class is british art and architecture. this class is offered through arcadia, the study abroad program, not the london college of fashion. i am really excited about this class because it's the most academic of my five classes, so it is a nice balance to all the drawing/reading magazines/shopping for homework that i've been doing. yesterday morning i went to the british museum and scoped out the rosetta stone (cool), but more importantly the statues from the parthenon! basically, some british dude somehow got permission in the 1800s to take a bajillion of these beautiful marble sculptures from the parthenon and bring them to london. i personally think they should bring them back to athens, but i suppose it's not my call. now, my friend rebecca and i are determined to go to athens to see the rest. we will see.

[me in front of the marble statues, so stoked on culture]

this definitely makes me a nerd, but i literally have a moment when i am standing so close to such major pieces of history. those are pieces of the PARTHENON! see, nerd.

[centaurs versus humans]

[don't remember what this is but it's cool looking! legos?]

tomorrow it's off to the national gallery to look at some dumb paintings of canals. eh. but it's in trafalger square, so after i stare at canal paintings for a while i'll probably explore!