Day two (getting settled...)

Day three started well enough, a relaxing nights sleep gave a new brightness to the city. The weather was a bit gloomy but otherwise excellent. We took a bus tour and I got a SIM card for my phone, still don’t have the data working though (ugh). I still need to get a tripod to set up shots correctly, that’s the only item left on my list though! We found some cute places and got a taste for the city by exploring with (during the bus tour) and without a guide. The Tube is great and travel through the city is surprisingly easy. There are so many different people from all around the world in London, well at least from all around Europe. I heard so many different accents and languages. We found the apple store, oh and subway for lunch (knew you’d like that Carly). That’s another thing, there are more KFC’s and Starbucks in London than I have ever seen in my life! Its currently 3:21am here on day four and I really need to go to bed, staying up so long yesterday kind of programmed me for that I guess. I’m really glad I have mild plans tomorrow (the British Museum is the only major plan!). I already miss my friends and I wish you guys were all out here, it would be SOOOOOO much fun. Oh well, guess I’ll have to get out there and meet those Londoners…

Day one (a bit heavy on the details)

So, the first day in London… after disembarking at 6:45am we were quickly gathered and told to wait for the coach to arrive. Some 35 minutes later we on the bus to the rooms. The drive in to the city was intriguing. I always find great interest in the differences in architecture and planning of foreign places, even the road signs are interesting for the first few days. And, of course, the cars are always cool in other countries; saw two RS4 avants on the way in (love it!). So, after dropping the bags at the apartment at 8 we quickly headed out of the apartment to find some eats. Zefren was having a craving for curry and ended up dragging us all over the local area, which by the way is the Westminster borough. No luck. We ended up settling for some random breakfast shop (mmm, sausage and egg sandwich) after deciding to turn back for times sake. We got back to the apartments just in time (noon) for the trip to the Anglo American center. Our helpful but somewhat uptight complex manager, Craig, gave us rail passes and assured our safe arrival at the center. Once there we were subjected to the most horrendous lectures ever. Everyone fell asleep at some point during the 3 hours of lectures and not a shred of useful information came of them. Quickly after we were whisked off to a tour of the local area. I cannot think of a single thing that I would rather not have done at that point in time then being dragged around Camden to no end on less than 3 hours of sleep more than a day prior. We were finally allowed to return to the apartments and the three groups went in their respective locations. Amazingly, that was not the end of the day. After a 15-minute nap a small group of ten people or so ended up in a bar a considerable distance from our place, probably a 20-30 minute walk from the apartment. We had decided that the first day in London had to be memorable despite our extreme sleep deprivation we managed a decent night out. I had the best sleep that night.

In London (the flight over)

Ok, so here I am, my first post from London! It's been a crazy few days here so far. I'll start at the beginning... 6:15am, Sunday the 29th, mother woke me so I could ready myself to the flight (I didn’t get to sleep until about 3am the night before, too excited). After some preparation we headed out to the airport (at 7:15 ish), much to the dismay of my mother I *slightly* exceeded the speed limit the whole way to LAX. So, as a result of these factors, we ended up at the airport around 9am, flight was at 12:47pm, just a tad early... (thanks mom!). After a *short* time in the terminal it was time to board, my seat was epically good, row 30B, and exit row right behind the wing, plenty of legroom! The flight was great, despite the enormous space in front of my spot being used as a recreation area for small children and clot concerned individuals, one woman started jogging in place, strange… My neighbor was a pleasant man from the Channel Islands who reminded me in many ways of my English teacher from high school, Dr. Ian Dinmore. I tried to sleep as much as I could but only managed about two hours. After the nine and a half hour flight, (tailwinds) we touched down at Heathrow. So ended an incredibly long flight and began a great adventure.

New site?

Ok, so I've been IM'ing my friend for a few hours tonight after getting back from the bar (CJ's in Redlands, the best bar in town) and I think I might be upgrading the blog soon. I just bought a new domain for a year (only 9.95 for a year for unlimited bandwidth!) www.gustavdeutsch.com is up and runing, well not yet, but it will be in a while. I hope to host my own stuff so i have real control over everything instead of bring on this preformated stuff. Anyways, look for a transfer soon, hopefully a good one! Again, thats www.gustavdeutsch.com for all the latest blog postings, I'll keep you informed exactly when the real changeover goes on... sleep well ya'll and I'll update from London as soon as I can!

A tired post

Sooo this is a random post but I need to keep myself somehow and I'm a
bit behind anyways on posting up here... Anyhow, it's currently
4:45am and I still have 3:15 minutes left for a special watch shift I
took at the station. Basically I'm babysitting a bunch of tractors in
the university union quad. It's been a whole bunch of fun, but at
least I pick up a nice bit of change for the 13 hour shift (on since
7pm). There are a whole bunch of cool lawn manipulating devices,
everything from chainsaws to bobcats! Being here reminds me of
childhood battles against my mom to let me go out and mow the grass
with my dads commercial grade skid-steer riding mower (so much fun!),
so parents, keep that in mind, if you want your kids beging to mow the
lawn all you need is a cute little $8,199 investment like the gravely
148z I'm sitting on right now! Hell, there's even convinent financing
available! Haha, yeah, dosent seem like that much of a deal to me
either... Wow, I have no idea how I am going to make it through this
shift, thank god for my iPhone! Speaking of such, sorry for bad
spelling on this post, I'm having to email it to blogspot from my
lovley piece of handheld apple hardware. Sitting here the campus
really is so quiet, just the beginings of bird songs to keep me
company. But that isn't really of any importance to me right now,
I'm off to London in a couple short days and I can hardly wait! I
have been non-stop for the last week, running around getting ready and
saying goodbye to everyone is a full time job! I hope I can keep up
this pace in London, I want to see everything and I hear there's a lot
to see haha! Well, I guess that's it for this post, it kinda feels
like I'm rambeling to the the abyss of the Internet at this point.

Tire!

Haha, was just out around campus taking a study break, a friend of mine had an old tire and we were finding different hills/things to roll/drop it off of. It was a surprisingly fun! Oh the things we do at Cal Poly to entertain ourselves... Haha, pics on my flickr and video attached (I had fun making my first video with iMovie)!



Finals suck :(

What this trip is about... (And what I'm about)

I leave on the 29th of this month (March) and have a bunch of plans already, I should end up in Barcelona and France on top of my stay in London and Germany, oh and a week in Florida on the way back I guess! I cant wait to go, finals are impossible to concentrate on right now. Just a couple short weeks then I'm on the plane to Heathrow! Oh I guess a quick introductions is in order for anybody that actually is interested enough to read this stuff: I am a third year International Business and Marketing double major at California State Polytechnic University Pomona. I have been really active around campus but right now I'm just about figuring everything out and not having any obligations so that stuff has been put on the back burner. I work at the Police station on campus (nighttime safety patrols) and couldn't thing of a better job for a student (heck, if I'm going to be up anyways, why not get paid...). That said, I'm not Mr. uptight and usually find plenty of time to have fun on the nights I'm not working. I hope this trip is educational in both a scholarly sense and on a personal level, I would really like to come away from the trip with a better understanding of who I am and where I want to be in life! Not that I don't have some idea, I know I want to work in the automotive field, a life without cars is no life for me. I am really interested in automotive marketing and product development (what people want in their cars and how best to get those things into the car). Its always sounded like a juvenile dream to me but I would LOVE to open my own car company some day, I just have to figure out exactly how to go about that... But yeah in a really small nutshell that's me! I hope this blog can be as much a journey for you as it hopefully will be for me.

My first post!

Ok, so basically I guess I'm setting up this blog thingey for my trip to London. I'm really excited for the experience and hope that I can look back and see what it all means at the end of it all. Oh and I guess there are a few people out there that kinda wanna see what I'm up to too (hi Mom)... I'll do my best to post a picture along with my entries so you can get a real feel for whatever it is I'm on about, hopefully it turns out well!