This past weekend I also did other things besides go to the Tottenham match. I got there early enough on Saturday so that I would have time to do a tour of Westminster before the match. My main goal was to find William Pitt's statue who was the youngest prime minster in the history of England because of his connection to my family on my dads side (great grandfather, don't know how many greats.) I found it once I walked in but unfortunately they don't allow pictures inside so you can just google the statue if you would like. The rest of my experience inside was surreal because i'm literally looking at the graves of people I just talked about in class the previous week (in a way its sort of an eerie feeling because it is literally filled with dead english men and women.) I then left very pleased I took time out of my day to visit the beautiful abbey, and would love to go back inside. On Saturday night Alex, myself, and Andrew visited the olympic area seeing the main stadium as well as the other venues used during the 2012 London olympics. Sunday was another football field day for me as I had plans to tour Tottenham and Chelsea's stadium both in one day. First was Tottenham and I had an awesome time. I could go into great detail and bore you with things I loved the most but I'm sure it wouldn't be that interesting to those who don't care about soccer so I will summarize it real quick. I saw the home and away locker rooms, the directors box, the expensive suites, trophy room, and most importantly got to sit on the team bench and see the field (but not touch it unfortunately.) I then met with Alex and went and toured Chelsea's stadium. We did all the same things for the most part as I did on the Tottenham tour, except there was one thing that was obviously different than my tour of Tottenham and tour of Chelsea, and that is money. Chelsea is a richer club, in fact their owner has invested around 1 billion pounds into the club over the last thirteen years if you were wondering. Everything at Chelsea was just nicer or more updated. But me being biased I loved White Hart Lane more for the memories I had connected with it even though I was very impressed with Stamford Bridge (Chelsea's stadium.) Overall, I had a very eventful weekend full of history and football. If you can't tell, I just want to tell everyone I'm extremely happy here and I'm enjoying having many dreams fulfilled over time. That being said I still miss all of you back home and hope all is well.
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This past weekend I also did other things besides go to the Tottenham match. I got there early enough on Saturday so that I would have time to do a tour of Westminster before the match. My main goal was to find William Pitt's statue who was the youngest prime minster in the history of England because of his connection to my family on my dads side (great grandfather, don't know how many greats.) I found it once I walked in but unfortunately they don't allow pictures inside so you can just google the statue if you would like. The rest of my experience inside was surreal because i'm literally looking at the graves of people I just talked about in class the previous week (in a way its sort of an eerie feeling because it is literally filled with dead english men and women.) I then left very pleased I took time out of my day to visit the beautiful abbey, and would love to go back inside. On Saturday night Alex, myself, and Andrew visited the olympic area seeing the main stadium as well as the other venues used during the 2012 London olympics. Sunday was another football field day for me as I had plans to tour Tottenham and Chelsea's stadium both in one day. First was Tottenham and I had an awesome time. I could go into great detail and bore you with things I loved the most but I'm sure it wouldn't be that interesting to those who don't care about soccer so I will summarize it real quick. I saw the home and away locker rooms, the directors box, the expensive suites, trophy room, and most importantly got to sit on the team bench and see the field (but not touch it unfortunately.) I then met with Alex and went and toured Chelsea's stadium. We did all the same things for the most part as I did on the Tottenham tour, except there was one thing that was obviously different than my tour of Tottenham and tour of Chelsea, and that is money. Chelsea is a richer club, in fact their owner has invested around 1 billion pounds into the club over the last thirteen years if you were wondering. Everything at Chelsea was just nicer or more updated. But me being biased I loved White Hart Lane more for the memories I had connected with it even though I was very impressed with Stamford Bridge (Chelsea's stadium.) Overall, I had a very eventful weekend full of history and football. If you can't tell, I just want to tell everyone I'm extremely happy here and I'm enjoying having many dreams fulfilled over time. That being said I still miss all of you back home and hope all is well.
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