On Day 3 in London (my second full day), I spent most of the daylight hours in the British Museum. in which I could spend a month alone exploring. It?s really quite amazing. Here you can see more Egyptian, Roman, Greek, and Near and Far Eastern artifacts than most people can imagine.
I saw quite a few pieces of their permanent collection, including the Rosetta Stone. I was lucky enough to have come upon it as a tour guide was giving her speech about its significance. I found that the best way to find out interesting things about exhibits in museums is to follow group tours and float in and out of at random. This strategy worked quite well at the National Gallery and pretty well here too. Perhaps the most interesting exhibit was in fact the oddest: The Forgotten Medicine Man: Henry Wellcome. This exhibit had Wellcome's Victorian era collection of medical gadgets, trinkets, and oddities including collections of bone saws, birth extraction tools, Peruvian shrunken heads, Japanese anti-masturbation devices, glass eyes, chemist bottles, and an array of artificial limbs.
In case you're wondering, I've continued to take photos and hope to post them some time next week when I get back to the U.S.
No replies from any of the language schools to which I've applied for jobs. :(
This afternoon I am taking a train south to East Bourne (on the ocean) to visit my friend George. I'll stay overnight at her flat and then return to London on Friday morning, pick up my bags from the hotel storage center, then going northwest to Birmingham and Bristol to visit my friends Rachel and Sarah.
