Rich of Culture

Today was a complete day of London's finnest culture. We first went to a fashion show that was presented by the graduating class from local colleges. It was impressive to see the creativity from such young stundents, it was very perfessional. It was my first fashion show so i was pretty excited and it was worth every penny. I just love the music, the environment, and just the overall vide of the whole show and the beauftiful women were definitly a plus. I have to say i want to start trying to find more fashion show back home because it was a blast. After the fashion show were mobbed it over to the theater to see Priscilla Queen of the Desert which was drop dead helerious. There were moments were my sides were aching beacause i was laughing so hard but i aint gona lie there were definitly certain parts were i had to look the over way but overall it was my favorite day in London.

I'm Officially Broke

We all were up bright and early to go and vist Portobello Road to walk and shop at the street market. It was smart that we got there early beacuse an hour or two after we arrive the place became a zoo all of a sudden. It was really cool because the street market had a such diverse amount of merchandise from jewlery to music. I probably spent more money at Portobello Road than i would have liked but there was just some much dope stuff there. I ended up buying a couple pieces of art for myself that im so hyped on and i also bought my sister some jewlery. I have learned from experience that you can not go wrong when you buy jewlery for females so hopefully she will be stoked.

Bespokin it

Today we were able to have to opportunity to visit a bespoke tailor shop, Thom Sweeny. Matthew Gonzalez, a former OCC student, was cool enough to give us a personal guide of his place of work. It was very inspiring to see a student from the states make a carear in fashion out her in London because we all now that is not an easy task to accomplish. I loved the shop, even though it was tiny as hell, it was just so damn cool with all the photos of the celebirties scattered across the walls. They had photos of everyone from Martin Scorsese to Mohammad Ali. It was cool to listen to Matthew explain how every suit they make is custom made perfectly to fit the individual like a glove. It definitily made me start itching for a Thom Sweeny suit thats forsure.

Solo in London

Shopping is cool but I can only shop for a certain period of time. The rest of the class can shop until they drop but compared to me I shop for necessity not for fun. Today most of the class went on a shopping spree so after a while of shopping I decided to leave and go on an adventure in London by myself. Once I left the group I stared walking and ended up in China town. It was a trip because even though I'm in London, England I felt as if I was in China. As I was walking through China town I came across a christian church. I'm catholic and it is a Sunday so I felt I should at least pop in on mass. It was a traditional chinese christian church and I was pretty much the only only white person in church. The mass was completely spoken in Chinese so I was unable to understand anything during the mass but it was still cool anyways. I didn't understand anything but I was able to at least feel the vibe of the church and it kind of made me feel like home a little. After mass was over I continued on my journey and ended up walking through an apartment complex outside of soho. As I was strolling through the apartment complex I saw a group of little kids playing football in an indoor arena. I have been playing soccer all my life so I decide to ask the kids if I could join in on the game. They were more than friendly and let me join in on the football match. It was raining kind of hard which made it really fun and exciting. It was cool playing football with all these local kids and surprisingly good for their age. It was cool and especially when I scored a goal and of course I had to do a little celebration. After playing for awhile I left and continued on my way home but it was a good day.

Bull In a China Shop

Today we were able to get a personal guided tour of some famous high end clothing stores. Our guide was very knownledgeable about the certain stores we visited. He was very useful for students to pick his brain about careers in fashion. It was cool that he was able to show us around and give us the insider scoop. The guided tour made us feel special and important and it was funny when he said we were not allowed to take pictures or draw sketches of any of the store merchandise. It made me feel as if we were visiting some top secret government laboritory. The tour was cool and was well appreciated but i'm not gona lie i felt extremly uncortable beause everything seemed so fragile and expensive. My goal was to just keep my hands in my pocket but i end up knocking over two pairs of expensive display shoes and it made a loud noise which created a scene. I felt like a little kid again like a bull in a china shop. My intenstions were good but i felt so stiff in the stores. Overall it was a educating experience and i definitly will laugh about this later in life.

Being a Tourist

I always hate acting like a tourist but when you come to London theirs nothing wrong with visting all the touristy spots. To tell you the truth it was quite exciting. We were able to pretty much hit up every touristy spot in London and when you are able to have a tour guide like ours you don't feel like a tourist at all. Our tour guide made us feel like a local or a insider feel on central London. She was really funny and her british dry humor was hilarious. It was cool seeing all the famous well known spots on the first day to get all those spots out of our system and i stoked that i can now brag about seeing all those famous spots to my loved ones because i know that will be the first questions they ask me about my trip.