Day 9: Rain, Rain, Rain

Today it was a rainy day outside in London, as well as inside Flat 5, our apartment! lol The day started out with our bathroom flooding from above through the ceiling fan caused by the girls upstairs taking a shower, and their shower overflowing. I ran down to get our CAPA residential helper person, Bernie, because it was literally a steady waterflow coming out of the vent in the ceiling. Once I got downstairs I realized the same water was gushing out of the ceiling in the hallway! Bernie answered the door and was immediately fretting and freaking out about it, mumbling words in an Irish accent (because he's Irish) was really funny, but at the same time I did feel bad for him. haha The water leakage in our apartment also caused some of our electricity and outlets to lose power. Eventually the handy-people came and fixed everything, so hopefully we don't run into anymore problems. Its funny though because we've run into so many problems that people think our apartment is cursed!

After that mess, Melda and I met Allison down in central London to go see if we could get Macbeth tickets at the Royal Opera House. Unfortunately we did not have any success and learned that we have to go back at 10 the day of the show to get cheap tickets. After that we went to Oxford Circus which is another busy part of central London where they had a bunch of shops and restaurants. We stopped at the Nike store because Melda wanted to get a personalized Barcelona Futbol jersey. The store had many huge displays about the Barcelona vs. Manchester United futbol game, which is taking place this Saturday, here in London. It should be pretty exciting, although I've never been into soccer so I'm not really phased by it. lol Afterwards we walked down the street and stopped at a couple of touristy stores to pick up some little souvenirs. Then Melda took us to this Lebanese restaurant called Vanoosh, which is her favorite, to try a Lebanese specialty called the Shewarma, which is kind of like a pita with chicken but the chicken comes from a huge stick of meat that rotates around and is shaved off and placed onto a sandwich. The whole concept seemed kind of gross but the sandwich wasn't bad.

The whole time we were walking around Oxford Circus it was on and off rain, which was pretty annoying. I think that's  it for today! Goodnight!