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Met some real geezas!

It's been a good weekend.  The house party allowed me to meet two new people who I very much like.  I also had my first experience of balloons containing real L.E.D.s - not your usual run of the mill glow in the dark nonsense.  I was so enamoured by them, that I was given one to take home, and later on in the evening, having imbibed much wine, I proceeded to take a large number of pictures of my now withered (but still lit) balloon.  My fascination was that of someone who was far too heavily intoxicated for a first meeting.  Still, everyone seemed to get along well.  Apparently I put two men (incidentally the new people that I like) firmly in their place at some point, but luckily my words were taken in good humour.  I have no idea which words they were referring to.

Today I was taken on a tour of London.  I had a cocktail lunch in Covent Garden, a wander around Regent Street which houses a shop that I would quite like to live in, and went to Chinatown.  Coming out of one of the tubes we had to climb 193 steps unexpectedly which was a little stressful, but otherwise I coped remarkably well.  When we first arrived, one of the first tubes we saw was a step beyond the notion of sardines in a can.  When the doors closed there were people hanging slightly out being squeezed in.  I looked on in horror, but luckily waiting around a while, there were quieter ones.  Not something I could imagine doing on a daily basis though.  I witnessed the emergence of some very strange human behaviour and I found the whole experience bizarre.  Above ground though I really enjoyed myself.

I could not be happier to be home.  It was tiring, and sent my brain into quite a bit of mental overload.  On a study note, I read some of my text book on the way over (not so much an option on the way back post party), and it turns out the sense of smell is in fact quite interesting. 

New people.  New knowledge.  New drink - I now like gin with water, cucumber and lime, drunk from a rinsed out baby food jar.