halloween, guy fawkes et all

Some of you know, that Halloween is one of my favourite holidays. Ever since I can remember, I would get very excited about thinking of a costume to wear, and spend days looking for cheap places to buy the different parts for my outfits (I refused to pay $50+ for those pre made costumes). In the last five years, I've dressed up as the border patrol, Mario, Gene Simmons form KISS,  Baby spice in the spice girls, snooki, Dora the explorer, and R2D2. This year, I didn't have any time to make a new costume :( so I opted to wearing my R2D2 dress from last year. And as I am in London, I was wondering if their Halloween celebrations are as big as in MD.  London did not disappoint! On Halloween, I went with a couple friends to see a sing along of Rocky Horror Picture Show, so fun, we dresses up and sang along to the strange strange movie that is RHPS. On Friday, after getting ready, we headed off to the Birkbeck bar, where one of my friends won the costume contest! On Saturday we went to a pub crawl in central London, and I dressed up like beetle-juice! Halloween weekend, was one of a kind.

                     

My brother and I on halloween one year                                         beetlejuice beetlejuice beetlejuice!

This week was reading week for the department of psychology. In some universities in the UK, students are given one week of a term break, in which you are supposed to catch up on all the readings, and get ahead on future assignments. Some people chose to go on small trips during this week, or if they're form different parts of Britain, go home for a bit. I used my time wisely, and made myself get up around 9:00 am, and spent the day reading away for my essays that are due in January. I also worked on my second statistics assignment. Got the grade for the first one today, and I did well, got what is considered an A, or distinction here :).

On November 5th I got to go see fireworks in celebration of bonfire night. Its a day to remember and celebrate Guy Fawkes failed attempt at blowing up parliament in the 1600's. Since bone fire night, I've been hearing fireworks, go off all week!

I've also been out to eat at a couple new restaurants. I found an Ecuadorian restaurant on Holloway road, that had every main dish from Ecuador, even jugo de naranjilla!! Had fun translating the menu away to my friends, and offering them suggestions on what to get. We all got different starters, including ceviche, empanadas and langostinos! for the main dish as suggested most of us got Fritada. It was delicious, and was so happy to eat a little home cooked meal.

I also tried a local sushi restaurant. Its an entire rotary bar style restaurant. It was ok, but man did it make me miss Matuba and Hinode! The dishes each were priced around 2 to 6 pounds!! They had lots of salmon dishes, but not much tuna. After talking to my friends from the UK, we concluded that tuna here is very expensive, and so in order to get good tuna at sushi restaurants, you have to go to a good sushi restaurant. YOSUSHI, is ok, but not amazing like my local sushi places back in MD. Have to continue searching for my new sushi place.

So now I'm starting a new week, planning on getting more reading done and at least one outline done for my essays. I have that statistics assignment due tomorrow, which is done, and I'm going to double check to make sure its perfect, I want another A!