Thursday, July 12th

Thursday, July 12th. I had two field trips! The first one we went Old Bailey and sat in on 2 court hearings. The first one was incredibly boring talking about a fraud case handling millions and millions of pounds (their currency here). It was almost impossible to stay awake. So we moved along to the second one which fascinated me! It was a high profile murder trial. This was awesome for me since I want to focus on the big stuff in my career. For all of your sakes, I won't go into any more details on that! But I was sucked in by the proceedings and thought it was awesome. I left very excited to graduate and get a big girl job! Being in the Old Bailey itself was amazing and jam packed with history. We had to go through security and everything of course. Oh yeah, and for the record, judges and some high authoritative people here DO indeed wear robes and wigs in the courts. I don't fully understand their court system but it was interesting. There were multiple defendants in one hearing all on the same case. This is something totally different from the US. 

After the hearings, I definitely needed a nap. So I did just that! Then I woke up for some nasty refectory provided supper and went on the second part of our field trip. We went on a Jack the Ripper tour! Of course, I loved this too. A man named Oliver took us around London telling us the brutal stories and showing us the sites on where everything happened. I got a picture of the pub where Jack the Ripper would have a drink of gin with his victims. I also saw the church where he could meet his victims... who were prostitutes. Prostitutes in front of a church, how ironic? After the tour was over, we returned to campus.

After this, I thought I might go out to karaoke but decided against it. I sat in my room kicking myself for sitting in while everyone was out. So I sucked it up and found someone to go with me. It is an Australian pub called "Walkabout" which has the most fun, friendly atmosphere ever. Surprisingly, hardly anyone was even drinking. It was more a hang out place for everyone. We tried to do karaoke but they stopped it at like 11:30 which seemed very early to me. But there's always a couple more weeks to come! Being typical college students, we wanted food after Walkabout, so we went to some chicken place down the road. It was a good day!