Day 25: British Museum and Ku Bar (LATE POST!!)

For our second day of Creative Writing, our teacher took us to the British Museum to give us some plot inspiration. We were asked to pick a single picture from the photo gallery and write a story about it. I chose to write about Keith III by Chuck Close. I think I will spend the rest of my class revising the piece and then use it for my final submission at the end of class.

After class, I chose to tour the rest of the museum by myself. I spent another hour and a half roaming around looking for mummies, the Rosetta Stone and the Lindow Man. To my dismay (extreme dismay!), I could not find the Lindow Man. And to make the day worse, the Pompeii exhibit did not have another opening until three hours later. Still, I got to see some fabulous pieces.

This giant foot really got to me for no apparent reason. Possibly because it is so darn huge.

This kid is into it.

Preserved body in the Egypt exhibit

This is a real mummy. Now I can check that off my list.

People crowded around the Rosetta Stone

The Rosetta Stone

This dance party will forever be remembered.

People getting in my selfies -- I'm not having it.

Greek Sculptures

Inside the British Museum

Entrance to the British Museum

After walking two miles to the next tube station with an attendant to pay for a ticket home (seriously), I rested before heading out with my friends. We went to ladies night at Ku Bar, a local gay bar. I had one of the best nights since I have been here. The music was on point ranging from 1990/2000's R&B to boy bands. We had a blast dancing and spending time in a new place. The highlight of my night, however, was meeting a deaf woman at Ku Bar. During the song "Call Me Maybe," I used American Sign Language to dance to the song. The woman noticed me signing and came over to ask if I knew how to sign. Unfortunately, she was using British Sign Language and we found it very difficult to communicate. Still, I was thrilled to have met a deaf person that found my signing clear enough to know that it was sign language.