My trip to Londen

On 20 may 2014 I went to Londen with school. We had to gather at the Energiehuis at 6:30 in the morning. I woke at 5:30, after packing my stuff, showering and breakfast my father drove me to the Energiehuis. We were one of the first people to arrive. After five minutes my friends arrived and my father left. At seven o’clock the bus arrived, we put our stuff in the luggage compartment. We took a sit, and I was sitting next to my friend Tom. I was wearing short pants and everyone said that it would be cold in London and it was stupid to wear short pants. But after two hours of driving it became very hot inside the bus. And everyone regretted that they were wearing long pants. after a few hours of driving we took a stop in a gas station. We bought some food and went to the toilet. Me and my friends went outside and sat down next to a little lake. After a few minutes we returned to the bus and continued the trip. A few hours later we arrived at the train. We drove inside the train and went through a tunnel to England. After we left the train, we drove a few more hours until we arrived in London. In London we took the touristic route to our hostel. We drove over the tower bridge and saw some beautiful buildings. At the hostel we unpacked the bus and got a key to our rooms. I was on a room of eight. Afterwards we went to Westminster abbey and had dinner in a pub. After dinner we went to bed.

The next day we wanted to wake up at seven o’clock. But my friend Maarten hadn’t changed his clock to the English time so we woke up at six o’clock. We only noticed this after we had showered. We had breakfast at 7:30, an afterwards we got lunch in a supermarket next to the hostel. We went to two museums and to the Shakespeare theatre. Afterwards we had dinner in a pub. After dinner we did a Jack the Ripper tour. We divided the group in two, each group had his own guide. We walked to several places where events in the time of Jack the Ripper occurred. We had a very good guide, he was able to drag you in the story and he made many jokes. He also scared the crap out of us twice. The first time he went around the corner and randomly turn back and screamed. And the second time he was standing in front of an iron fence, he slammed the fence and we all were terrified. When we reassembled with the rest of the group, we returned to the hostel.

The next day we woke up at seven o’clock. I took a shower and had breakfast. Afterwards my friends and I went to the supermarket to get lunch. I bought some bread and chicken. When we gathered with the rest of the group we went to the tower. In the Tower we saw some awesome pieces of war equipment and we saw the Crown Jewels. After the Tower, we had five hours of free time. Maarten, Robert and I wanted to go to the imperial war museum. We decided to meet with our other friends at Oxford Street after three hours. First we went back to the hostel because Maarten and Robert had forgotten their phones. Afterwards we went to the imperial war museum. The imperial war museum is situated on the outside of London. In total the trip to the museum took us two hours. When we arrived we walked towards the museum and saw that it was closed. We were incredibly pissed that we travelled two hours in vain. We decided to eat our lunch on a bench in front of the museum. The chicken was delicious and after lunch we went to Oxford Street to meet with our friends. By the time they arrived it started raining. We ran inside a Mc Donald’s, the rain was very dirty and it hurt in our eyes. After the rain had stopped we went outside. Maarten, Tom and I went to the St Pauls Church. Sadly you had to pay seven and a half pounds to go inside. Afterwards we went to Leicester Square to meet with the rest of the group. When the entire group had arrived we went to a pub for dinner. We ate fish and chips but I wasn’t very hungry because I had a lot of chicken for lunch. After dinner we went to the musical Wicked. We sat in front of some eighteen year old girls who were very annoying. They threw all kinds of stuff towards us and were making a lot of noise. However I really liked the musical. After the musical we went back to the metro station but seven of us were still inside the theatre because they had to go to the toilet. They decided to go by themselves to the hostel. We had waited for fifteen minutes on them when they called that they had left. So we returned to the hostel as well. When we arrived at the hostel we packed our stuff. I stayed up almost all night and it was a lot of fun.

The next morning I woke up at six in the morning. I took a shower and had breakfast. After breakfast we got lunch in the supermarket. When we gathered with the rest of the group, some people where very late. Our teachers decided that we were not going to the market where we were supposed to go. So we had one hour and a half of free time. We walked to the Westfield shopping mall and ate our lunch in a little park. Afterwards we put our stuff in the bus and we went back to the Netherlands. The trip back was a lot more fun because it wasn’t as bad as the first trip. We arrived around ten o’clock. My father picked me up and when I came back home I immediately went to sleep.