A Few Peeksures

First I will spoil you with a few pictures from last night. We stumbled upon a carnival! There was a snow globe that you could get inside and take pictures in, but it cost money. The guy running it told me I could go in for free if I took of my clothes, I politely declined. I know mom, you're loving all of these stories!


































Another jolly day today. Got up about 8, and got ready for life(kinda). Ate breakfast downstairs (it's included). DELICIOUS! It was so good. It's buffet style. Had lots to eat. Lots.

At about 10 we headed off to the British Museum. Went there last time I was here. Saw some cool things. There are just a lot of trinkets and old things there, so it's not my favorite. Rosetta Stone is still much cooler in texts books than it is in person (I remember feeling that was last time). I wish I'd brought my journal from then, so I could compare reactions after I go places. But whatevs.















First: proof that I was there. (Obv I didn't take this picture so it's not my fault it's not in focus!) Second: there was a whole room of time. It was jam packed with watches, clocks, pocketwatches, etc. Totally my favorite room of the museum. This clock had a ball that rolled back and forth to count the seconds. Pretty nifty.

We only had about an hour in there, then we headed to BBC. That was pretty great to see. Their biggest competitor is CNN which is only a third the size. It's nuts to think about. A few pictures. We weren't allowed to take many though. We got to step on a built set (and an empty one).

The weather booths are very small. They are fully automatic. When you enter, you put in your initials and the rooms adjusts to you. By this I mean the platforms moves up if you're short, or down if you're tall, the lights adjust to your skin tone, and the mics set up for the pitches of your voice. That was a lot more advanced than I knew/expected. There are no people that stand behind ANY of the news cameras there. They are all controlled by remote, by someone in a different room (that is probably true for all news stations, I just had no idea things were that far along. I knew it was possible, just not that it was so widely used).

Later in the tour we got to pretend we were on a show. I got to go back into the control room and handle the sound, and sound effects. I was pretty good at it, haha. There was a lot of applause while I was there, and a few boos. This is the ceiling of the empty set room. I think they said there was a possibility to 500 lights in there. Every inch of the room can be lit. A little more intense than the lighting in the DMC... just a little (hah).

What was way more interesting to me than the BBC though was this couple on our tour from Egypt. They were baffled by everything. The first thing that shocked me was the man asking how the news casters knew what to say. He had no idea about the scrolling text beneath the camera. Also the green and blue screens were foreign (no pun inteded) to them. I love experiencing different cultures!

Anyways, about all for now. We're meeting for dinner as a group in about an hour (18:20). I might go rest and watch TV for a bit. Love to you all, Cheers!