What another exciting day in this all too exciting city! Today, I decided to venture forth and get a bit of museum in me because I haven’t done a lot of visiting these free areas, and the ones I have gone to so far have not satisfied my expectations too well. So, today I decided to visit the Imperial War Museum. If you know me, which if you’re reading this chances are you do, than you know that I am a giant war buff. I think there’s a lot that we can learn from looking back at our conflicts; about ourselves, about each other, and about how we can move forward to avoid such things happening again. There’s so many stories, both individual and wide spread, that can be told from war and the technology and weaponry developed as a result is very interesting. Not only that but the true face of humanity can really shine through when it comes to fighting each other and if we don’t look at events such as the Holocaust, for example, we can’t really come to grips with how far individuals can go to show their hatred and disdain. For some people my large interest in war may seem like a glorification, but I always approach it from an educational perspective and I hope to allow my understanding and interpretations of conflicts to be able come out effectively in my teaching.
I’m not going to talk too much about the museum in this post however. I could go on for a while about it and it’s already almost 11:30pm so I’m pretty tired from a long day. What I have decided to do however, is to actually post separate specific reviews from now on when it comes to places I’ve visited or things I’ve seen. This is so I don’t have to try to fit everything I want to say into the same post that describes my day. On top of that, I’m going to try to be a blogger for Protocol so I want to make a lot of posts specific to one topic because I’m sure most of the general population doesn’t care what I do on a day to day basis. SO, long story short look for my full review of the Imperial War Museum to be posted tomorrow….maybe before you even wake up! I’m going to be like the Santa of blog posts.
Moving on…I had a bunch of time to kill because I wanted to go on a London Walk in the evening so I headed up towards Trafalgar Square (it’s kind of like my home base now) and walked around desperately trying to find the awesome pub I described in my previous post…to no avail. I won’t give up just yet, but I did for today. I ended up just filing into the next closest pub I saw to have a pint of Doom Bar and read The Guardian. Champions League was on tonight too but I didn’t get a chance to see any of the matches…should probably check those scores…hold on a tick………………………………………………………………………………………………….alright we’re good.
Afterwards I made my way down to Temple Tube Station to meet up with the London Walks group to go on the “Hidden Pubs of London” tour. It was actually pretty cool and there’s a few places along the way I’d like to visit again along with all of the pubs ha ha ha. Again, full review in a separate post tomorrow…it’s like double Christmas!
Now I’m here….home that is. With a slight headache and a yearning for sleep. I think I’ll satisfy that need now so good night all and look for more on all of this tomorrow!
Cheers, Love, Rock The World!
Erik
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