Today was not that unique or filled, but it did have its interesting points all the same. To start I went to class and again got to watch my animated and most eccentric of British professors, Dr. Reuter. His lecture was about Roman London, up until the constructions of St. Paul’s Church (now Cathedral) and the Abbey of Westminster, which apparently was just an abbey used to house monks at one point if you can believe that. Anyway, we essentially went from Roman to Romanesque in that class. Following that class, I thought it would be wise to take an hour nap waiting for the next one, which I have always fallen asleep during... and not only that but I had ample sleep the night before. When I woke up, I went to class and was good for about an hour and then felt the heaviness of my eyelids and nearly dozed off more than a few times. We did learn about atoms and spectroscopy in that class.
Following that, I went to the Foundling, (the city’s first orphanage) which was very close to my school, sadly I again forgot my camera, but it was a very interesting building to visit all the same. They actually had rebuilt it, leaving very few things of the structure in tact, but they did preserve the artwork, which was very impressive. They had the Handel room on the top floor, because apparently he contributed greatly to the Foundling, by playing Messiah for charity concerts annually, and they had many of his original scores and such in the room, along with these really neat recliners that you could sit in, and press buttons on them allowing for speakers in the chairs to actually play his music. I then went down stairs and found many portraits, one of which was painted by William Hogarth the greatest satyrical painter of the 18th century to be sure. He also actually had a painting in there of the London troops defending the town against Bonnie Prince Charlie, from invasion... but in the painting as in most of his works I have seen, he depicts much hypocrisy and incompetence, like some of the soldiers were drunk, or they had prostitutes who were pregnant at their sides or what not. Following that, I came home and really did nothing much, save to watch more of the Theodore Roosevelt series, and I was compelled by that great man all the more.