"London is beautiful, all besides the rain. It's just drizzling, but we took a 4 hour train ride here. It was Eurostar, and it went 186 miles an hour. It was nice. After reaching the station, I realized that we could finally understand everything! After we got off the train we went directly to the subway. Our road is Collingham, and our stop os Glaustor Road. We live close to the supermarket, and our apartment is pretty nice! The bathroom is the only bad thing. The toilet hardly flushes and there is no shower. Coarse, that's because it just won't work. Out bedroom is nice. I've already decorated my wall, and settled in. We also, (us kids) have our room, then sort of a bathroom. There is no toilet, and no bathtub or shower, but it has a sink and a huge mirror. I put all my make up and persona items in there first, then Joe put his few things in there, then Mom, so we decided the bathroom: for taking baths, showers (when we fix it) and going to the bathroom. Then our room: hair, makeup, personal things, all that.
London is so much better that all the other places. Finally we get our own money, and we also are allowed, once we know where we are, to go off alone!
Just last night, Katie woke me up by crying. I asked what was wrong and she said she felt like throwing up but didn't want to get up, in case that triggered it. I ran to get mom, who came to the rescue. Katie did throw up, I felt bad. Our second night in London!"
Sitting on the Eurostar was a strange experience. I was completely smooth, you hardly felt like you were moving, until you looked out the windows. 186 miles an hour goes by pretty fast. I remember there was a small child and his parents sitting in front of us, and for every hour that went by this small child got a present from his parents. His name was Elliot.
"Mum, do you have a present for me?"
"No, not right now Elliot, you already got one,"
"But I want another!"
"Well, here. Here's another present from Mummy and Daddy."
"Ooh! Mummy! Thanks Mummy! Thanks Daddy!"
This literally went on every single hour. That kid had his own birthday party in that car and it wasn't even his birthday. I have a feeling we would have been told multiple times if it WAS his birthday.
I vaguely remember what our apartment looked like. I don't remember that the shower was broken... what a bummer. But being in London was so great because we actually could go places by ourselves since we had an apartment we were living in for three weeks. I never went anywhere alone, Joe was the only one who did that, but most of the time Katie, Joe, and I went to the internet cafes and things. We felt so important swiping our little subway cards. And I didn't hesitate to put pictures of shirtless attractive pop stars on my walls. No sir, I made that half of my room MINE. I put up a few pictures of N'SYNC boys, and some other people that I don't even remember. It wasn't as extravagant as my room back home, but it would have to do.
Very rarely were any of us actually sick on this trip. Every once in a while someone would get a little stomach ache, and Katie threw up once, but that was about it. We all stayed relatively healthy, which was a real blessing. I think saying our family prayers together morning and night really helped that. We definitely received blessings from on high.
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