Yesterday, the temperature in London reached 20C! Strangely a very warm day. People were even wearing t-shirts and the sun was shining. Spring is in sight!
The days are getting longer too. A month ago, the sun was setting at 4pm and temperatures reached 10C now the sun sets about 5:30pm and the max temperature can reach 20C.
Today sadly was a bit colder so I think that Spring is not quite here ;) but I think that we are on the up.
Weather is a big topic here in the UK - every morning we check how cold is it and if it is going to rain.
So we have 4 months leave in London! We will go back to the South African Winter so we must try enjoy the Summer before we leave. The cold wind now is actually quite refreshing, since here you walk everywhere.
The vibe in London is great. Even at night. We enjoy our walks at night. The other night we walked to South Bank which has a bit nice trendy, arty feel. There are restaurants and 3 big theatres and the food market. We walked through Jubilee Park by the London Eye and past Big Ben and back home. The location we we live is amazing, right in the centre of London. So busy and noisy but so much energy and life.
Am looking forward to Spring and Summer in London!
Athol has about 3 weeks of classes left before exams/assignments/thesis writing. He goes into LSE Monday 2pm-4pm, Wednesday 1:30pm-3pm and then Thursday 10am-4pm and is doing 3 courses this semester: Social Inequality, Business Ethics and Foundations of Political Theory. He really loves the intellectual learning and debates. His colleagues are so young, some are 22-25 years old :) even I am "old" compared to them. The second oldest person in his class is 30! Even the Professors are younger than Athol. Athol came into this course with no formal Political Theory undergrad but he has learnt so much in such a short space of time. I enjoy our discussions after class everyday. The issues about what is right and moral is complex. It is difficult to practically solve the world's problems without hurting someone. So I am learning a bit about Political Theory too. One skill that is learnt is the art of creating an argument - I am so glad that Athol is on my side, wouldn't want to be up against him ;)
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