Tuesday, July 17th

Tuesday, July 17th... Field trips! My criminology class went to see a court hearing again like last week. There's not much to say about that besides it was dull and I understand why I want to try to fix people and NOT defend them. So frustrating to take stand in front of a convicted murderer and say they're not guilty!  Anyway, after the dreadfully boring court hearings, we broke for lunch. Me and a group of 3 others went to Pizza Express. Silly Americans didn't know anything, so we ended up spending a LOT of money on a LOT of food. And they didn't offer carry out boxes of course. It's a nightmare to get checks in an European and they never split the check. So we tried handling that and missed meeting up with our class for the second part of the field trip. You can just imagine 4 Americans running through the streets of London trying to find the City Police Department.

Jenny to the rescue! Amazing things happen when you're the only criminology major in the group who actually knows how to follow directions or where to look for a police department. So anyway, we found the police department AND our classmates! All in one swing! We met up in perfect timing and got to go through a tour of the station. I was in awe the whole time (and it had nothing to do with police uniforms or accents combined). I probably would've taken a job on the spot! We learned all kinds of stuff, messed with their uniforms and utilities, and got to see the horses! They still have mounted patrol where horses are out walking around! This made me realize how much I miss animals because I spent quite a bit of time playing with the horses whereas everyone else was standoffish and afraid of the horses because they were "too big". Wussies! As I promised myself, I got done with this field trip and returned to campus to finish yet another paper.