A quick recap on our week: Amy met Yiannis and Christina, two PhD's at UCL that share an office space. Yiannis has been great at answering questions and getting Amy set up. PhD students don't take classes here, and don't typically have sharing sessions, so it is a bit hard for the talkative and social side of Amy to be content... hmmm... is academia a right fit?
On Thursday, we saw probably 1/32 of the British Museum- we toured the 'round the world medicine exhibitions and the Africa floor. I (Amy) particularly liked the "Tree of Life", a tree made from guns and other ammunition, which was made from a project called "Transforming Arms into Tools". This project has collected more than 600,000 weapons in nine years. It gets people to hand in old guns in exchange for goods such as sewing machines, building materials and tools (info from "Mozabique: Tree of Life Website).
On Friday night we headed for Tate Modern, the ultra-funky museum of modern art. Really cool, some things were really out there. We had amazing Turkish food down by the museum, walked across Arup's Millenium Bridge (also known as the wiggly-wobbly bridge), checked out St Paul's Cathedral at night and saw the blending of the old with the new (new financial commercial buildings next to a walk way exhbiting the old wall from ancient times).
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