day 15

Today was a very lazy Friday. I woke up and had corn flakes and with cut up bananas in them. I waited around in the morning until Alison woke up and we went to King’s Cross to find Platform 9 ¾. We got on the tube and got off at King’s Cross Station, which, by the way, is not where they filmed that part of the movie. They filmed that at platform 4. But anyway, Alison and I had to look around a lot to find the sign and half a cart in the way they put up in honor of Harry Potter. It’s not actually between platforms 9 and 10, but in a hallway that connects 9 and 8. But there’s a gate that doesn’t let anyone go through, so you have to go around to platform 8 to get to it.

But then we finally got there and took pictures. It was really fun. It was sort of like a pilgrimage, a quest to find this special location that honors Harry Potter. It was also fun to see that there were people there before and after us, just as excited as we were that they had found this special site.

Alison and I had sandwiches for lunch. Something here about British food: they pretty much always have sandwiches for lunch, and the only vegetables you can find are lettuce, tomato, and peas. Forget about broccoli or green beans or squash or any other vegetable. Restaurants just don’t serve them.

I got back to the dorm and spent the rest of the day being lazy. I read and watched things online and skyped and did whatever I felt like. I decided I would work on my paper Sunday (the day I’m writing this) and worry about it later.

I bought some pasta and chicken thing at the convince store and went to bed not too long after that.

British word of the day: artifact is spelled “artefact” here. At first it doesn’t even look like a word.