Another interesting week in London. My internship has been great, as I’ve been able to do lots of important work and attend events as well. It’s starting to become a routine, but the novelty still hasn’t worn off. I am trying to not become desensitised to the fact that I am in the UK Parliament doing interesting, important political work. It’s easy to get used to things, but I won’t let that happen!
Thursday I had my first dissertation meeting, and I’m happy to report that my advisor really liked my ideas. I can’t wait to do more research into devolution and how globalisation has spurred that on, and how the British union is fragmenting but still strong in many ways.
If any of you are interested, I’d be happy to send you my dissertation proposal.
Friday I explored Manchester. It was a city with lots of personality, and I liked it. It had great shops and great street art. I had amazing food as well— Spanish tapas!
I do think it would have been better to have stayed the night and enjoyed the nightlife, rather than going in the day as I did. It was eerily quiet …
Saturday I had a great day exploring the Tower of London with some of my cousins. It’s truly an incredible place and is a thousand years old, dating from William the Conquerer! Especially being American where nothing is older than 250 years, it’s a wild feeling to see something that’s as old as a millennia. The Tower does a great job of totally immersing you in its history and presenting it from multiple different angles.
Also, as some of you know Brexit was delayed again on Saturday. It leaves me wondering whether it will ever happen considering how many MPs will always vote to keep extending the deadline to leave.
Later I went to the London neighbourhood of Shoreditch and enjoyed some of the nightlife.
Sunday I went to Soho with a British friend and explored. Soho is probably my favourite part of London, as it’s so eclectic and you never know what you’ll find.
I realised on Sunday that the shops in Soho were already better than the ones in Manchester, and the shops were my favourite part of Manchester … again, London asserted its superiority over other cities in the world!
We finished the day off with this amazing sundae from Creams — Creams is a sit-down dessert restaurant with a few locations around London and the greater UK. Highly recommend. 🙂
In Through the Out Door 
Sophie:
Yes, we would love to see/read your dissertation proposal.
We remember how exciting we experienced the Tower of London when we were there in 2011 as part of our trip to France & England.
Manchester sounded like fun & especially the “Creams” you enjoyed. Who was the young man with you—one of your classmates? Soho sounds like a great place to visit also.
Your blogs are so full of news & your very full life in London & England. We love reading about all your adventures & exciting work in school & Parliament.
We also love all the pictures you send. Do you have any pictures of your internship work site & you at work there & any pictures of the inside of Parliament?
Love you, Grammy & Gramps
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G&G:
My whole class over here, unfortunately, is american! No other nationalities.
I am not allowed to take pictures of where I work or in Parliament for confidentiality reasons.
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Sophie:
OK, we understand—no pictures.
And, as I read your blog ( for the 3rd time, 😊 I see the young man is your British friend. Nice.
Gramps
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