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woke up at 4:30am today in order to shower on the boat. hell yeah. breakfast was at 6am. docked at 7am. we were all pretty much dead, going through all the passport shit and whatever. funnn. we got to our new bus, though, and it was really nice. 2 hour drive from portsmouth to london. i think everyone fell asleep except for me hahaha. we did SO much today, being that we only had one day in england. first, our guide guided us around london by bus and showed us everything. so cool. they drive on ze right side of the car and left side of the road. scary if you're not used to it hahaha. we walked to buckingham palace and it was beautiful from the outside. we were supposed to watch the changing of the guard ceremony but they only do it every other day :( well, we went to the tower of london which was awesome. our guide told us all the stories about torture chambers and sheeeet and i remembered learning a lot of the stuff in global, how exciting. i actually love global. so that was really cool. we were in there for maybe 3 hours, and had a lot of free time. we also went to st. peter's cathedral which was mad nice. got lots of gifts for people. after all of that, we drove to this school thingy where a member of british parliment talked to us about the government in england. it was actually really interesting. a lot of people fell asleep but i didn't hahaha. that was for about an hour. after that, we went to the london eye. biggeset ferris wheel in the world. holy shittttttttt. greatest fucking thing ever. i basically died. we split into 2 groups, and thank god greg, jon and nick were with me. one car fits 25 people and it took half an hour to go around the whole thing. best views ever. you can see the whole city. andddd we went on at sunset, so it was even better. today's picture, i think jon took? maybe greg. but i love how big ben is in the backround out of focus. that was definitely the best part of the day. we got to the hotel a little while later. our last one! i was so sad. we had a couple minutes to get our stuff upstairs and then we all met downstairs in the lobby for journal writing. it pretty much turned into everyone giving each other their names / numbers and whatnot. it was bittersweet. we also gave johannes his gift and card and it was so qt. such a bittersweet night. our last night together. curfew was 11 but amigos and i were in the hallways until maybe 11:30. "i always wanted to be a raptor!" hahaha and i spit my soda everywhere. such a funny way to end the last night. anyway, wake up call was 2am, so i really didn't plan on sleeping. just called my mom and repacked my suitcase. i'll miss this.