Most of my friends back home, if not all, have left for Spring Break and thus any urgency I feel to do school work has diminished. For LSE, Spring Break is two weeks away, something I am looking forward to. At this point I am quite burnt out, in need of a long vacation and plenty of R&R. Going to Amsterdam with two papers and a presentation due a week after was probably not the best idea, but you only live once. So the week was spent catching up on assignments and finishing them relatively close to their due-date.
On Monday I had a presentation due on the merits of and rationality for authoritarian regimes in Latin America during industrial deepening. One thing I have learned at LSE is that they love the opinions of different authors/exports, not your own. So, like a good lad, I presented the different opinions of authors, compared & contrasted them, then summed up with a conclusion. Admittedly, I didn't get the topic very well, but luckily my class teacher was impressed b/c I understood it better than the other students.
I also had a law paper due on Thursday in regards to two World Trade Organization cases (Shrimp-Turtle and Tuna-Dolphin) - yes, those are their names. While writing them I had the strong urge for seafood, obviously, and I've been searching for a good restaurant ever since.
After completing that paper I felt the need to congratulate myself with a night out - big mistake! Friday night we went to The Court (obviously) and played "God Save the Queen." This game is a staple of British drinking culture and probably one of the most ubiquitous in the country. One individual starts the game with a 10p or 5p coin (whichever has the Queen on it) and then he proceeds to drop the coin in his "mates" pint. He can only do this if the other person has his hands on the pint, and if he does and the coin is successfully dropped in the pint then that unlucky fellow has the drink the entire pint - quickly - hence the name, God Save the Queen (save the Queen from drowning). The game continued with the person who had the coin dropped in his pint, only now that individual gets to drop the coin in someone else's drink. Great game, very fun, not so much though the next morning.
I realize at this point that I haven't finished the entries from Prague, Vienna, Rome, and Oslo which I promised to do. Once I finish my last paper (due Monday, but probably won't finish until Wednesday or Thursday), I will finish the blog posts. My goal is to complete the Winter Trip before I leave for the Spring Trip - obviously. Until then!
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