2004

We went to church today…

This is the Westiminister Cathedral. It’s the headquarters for the Roman Catholic Church in London. It’s done up in a byzantine architectural style….it has a really cool alter…I’ll take a picture of that next week…

We went to Chinatown after mass.

We had yummy dim sum…for a prix fixe meal – it came out to about 25 pounds….it was filling….but we didn’t get the whole choose-from-a-cart experience. I think it’s because the dining area was too small to move a cart through….Still, I had my shrimp dumplings and all was good with the world.

Yesterday – we went to the British Museum….it was free to get in – but we donated 3 pounds to the upkeep….this place also takes euros as a donation…so I may toss those coins to the museum on my next visit
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I posted this on the Medill Blog…

Yesterday, I went out with a Reuters camera crew to cover this story….

This is hard-hitting journalism….ala Dan Rather…or something…

An American Artist piled up 30,000 bananas in Trafalgar Square….this is outside of the National Gallery….he claimed it was art….Reuters and other british broadcasters thought it was news…

He’s done this exhibition in Ecuador and New York.

Here’s a reporter for the Children’s BBC…he tried starting up his own sculpture of oranges.

There was a gorrilla attack on the art exhibit. The artist was upset after that.

Reuters also got crowd reactions to the art exhibit. The artist gave away all the bananas in the afternoon. This kid was happy because he said he was hungry and he liked bananas.

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This is Regent Street…it’s about a block away from our ground floor flat…

We’re a five minute walk away from Picadilly Circus….My dad reminded me we visited this touristy part of town, more than ten years ago…It looks different…I didn’t remember seeing Virgn Record Stores, Burger King, Starbucks, McDonald’s and Pizza Hut around the Eros statue.
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