Things I've learned this week

1. The Natural History Museum is just as cool the second time around.
2. All art should be backed by rich old people so it can be viewed by the public for free.
3. People in the seventeen- and eighteen-hundreds had weird taste in home wall decor (personally, I'd rather not hang a 12'x20' oil painting of God's flooding of the earth over the fireplace if it's all the same to you, thanks).
4. You can use regular photographs as postcards.
5. Delays on the Tube are no fun.
6. When on the phone and spelling something for someone, choose serious words when clarifying a letter; N as in November, P as in Parliament, F as in Fahrenheit. Not, in any circumstance, L as in Lolly.
7. Even though laughter exacerbates a sore throat, it is still worth it.
8. Sainsbury's sells crusty delicious french bread for a pound nine.
9. Torrential downpours happen everywhere and, though you do get wetter by running than by walking in the rain, it is more fun to screech and holler as you dash for cover with friends through the thick, fast drops.
10. Apples to Apples, while undeniably a wonderful game, is made eight times funnier when you write the adjectives and nouns yourself.
    

Despite having no classes (it's Reading Week), it's been quite educational.