anecdotes of london: new and old

sorry i have been busy (very as you will see in future blog enterances) and thus unable to write since. but now it is time for a last london entry: the saturday.

I woke up packed my bad, went for the usual unspectacular breafast of toast and coffee (...sleep is no excuse for the lack of coffee xD). then to my surprise, i got the phonecall i was hoping for- my 9th grade english teacher mr. kelly (mr.k) called. he now lives in london, and i have kept in contact with him since- needless to say he is a really good teacher, a phenomenal PP supervisor and a truely nice person. as meeting up earlier did not work out, he was eager to meet me now that i coincidentaly was in his new hometown. so an hour later i had an appointment at russel square tube station.

i ran of to do some last minute shopping with my mummy at the awesome oxford street and came about 5 mins late finding my ex teacher waiting for me, his nose of course stuck in a book- an english teacher what can i say? the meeting was sort of surreal, short and compact telling the almost 2 last years in a few hours- from pp, to teacher battles to pragathi and the rest of the school, to school politics to my first impressions of IB and the world and everything in general.

we had coffee in the british museum, passed the uni of london, a really cool bookstore and got lost in the small streetlets of bloomsbury, which mr. k actually should know better by now ;).

lastly mr. k took my mum and me to the briish library where they had an amazing collection of old books- the gutenberg bible(!) mozart and beethoven and hayden...manuscripts (!!!) chinese acupuncture atlases of a couple of hundreds yeas of age, shakespeare, diaries and logbooks of discoverers- wow! a priviledge to have seen these documents, even tough its "just" paper. and of course as always a pleasure to have a mini lecture on shakey and his first and second editions and authenticy questions.

at this moment i must restate my gratitude of being priviledged witht he couple of hours of mr. k's time- it was a pleasure, if you read this, hope to see you in future- london is a phenomenal city, be sure ill be there again sometime in future.

i completely forgot to take photos. i know prags that you are waiting for them, but my batteries were out- and i was a bit shy to ask for a picture and go through the trouble of changing them. no pics of mr. k, but its the memory that counts isnt it? (plus ill drag you to london sometime if you have the money to transprt around half the world).