Fall Break: London

British accents.  That is all.

I loved London.  It felt refreshingly nice to be able to use English again, although I had the constant urge to constantly say grazie and ciao to everyone.  What started off as the worst beginning to our Fall Break adventures ended as the best start.  My roommate Sierra couldn't fly out to London with us on the same day.  Lets just say that Ryanair is not the best for customer service.  Our first night in London was drab.  Jimin, Amanda, and I eventually found our way to our hostel, ate delicious Chinese food, faced some credit card problems, dealt with the pouring rain, tried our best to ignore our creepy hostel roomie...
The second day, we went on a FREE tour of London (the Royal tour).  Our tour guide, Jo, was amazing.  She had so much enthusiasm and passion for her job that all of us just had to tip her!  London looks very much like the English version of New York City.  But I think London has just a little bit more charm...but it could just be the accent that makes me weak in the knees.  After the tour, Jo took us to a little pub where we ate FISH & CHIPS!

Fish&Chips

So our original plan was to hit the London clubs and dance the night away.  But the cover charge to get into a club in London is roughly 20 pounds, which equals about 35 U.S. dollars.  No thank you.  Instead, we went on the alternative pub crawl hosted by the same tour company c:  We reunited with Sierra at our second hostel and went out to experience the London nightlife.  Turns out, we were the only ones on the pub crawl.  But what started off as the biggest FAIL and boring night turned into the best night ever.  We managed to convince our tour guides, Damien and Manuel to take us to the clubs in east London.  Only problem is that on Sunday night, no one rarely goes out because of their early Monday workday.  ):  We hopped from one club to the next, hopped on and off the metro and the bus, walked all over London, and eventually ended up at Manuel's flat.  His cousin, Simon, was hands down the funniest person I have ever met.  He had so many Asian jokes but for the first time, he was in a room surrounded by Asians (his cousin Manuel is a quarter Chinese, Jimin, Sierra, and I are all Korean).  Just picture a Portuguese man downing five cans of beer, saying "I'm a very, very thirsty man," singing Call Me Maybe, and cracking Asian jokes all night.  Funny thing, he was the same guy who served us our Fish&Chips.  Simon was the sweetest.  He walked us over to the train station when we left.  Thanks to Manuel, Simon, and Damien for the best night in London~!

Girls night out! From L to R: Jimin, Amanda, Sierra, and yours truly c: