Busy

Today we studied more of WWI, the Great Alliance, and we had a guest lecturer from Regent’s teach us about the famous WWI poets. This was particularly entertaining for me because two of the more well known poets, Sassoon and Owen, met each other at Craiglockhart Hospital while recovering from shell shock. I am writing my final paper on the effects of shell shock on soldiers and the imagery they use in their poems would be a great addition.

Directly following class a bunch of us trekked out to find Wimbledon. We thought we knew what we were doing but once we got off the train we thought we could walk the rest of the way to the courts. It turned out that we had to bus and after a torrential downpour, too-full bladders, and waiting for the bus to arrive, we got on the double decker and headed up to the top. The view was so beautiful! Within 15 minutes we finally made it to Wimbledon.

We stopped at a pub to relax and gain our bearings before heading back to our flats and out again for an hour and a half long Jack the Ripper tour.

This used to be a hostel where a lot of Jack the Ripper’s victims stayed...gruesome

We stumbled upon some awesome looking places to stop and have some food and drinks so most of us decided to head back into town after the tour! 

Laughing so hard he was crying!

Tomorrow we have a professor from Cambridge coming to lecture us and we are going to the Imperial War Museum.

Updates to come, with love!