Wednesday, July 11, 2012

The Blessings of Too Much Smoke

10 July 2012

Today, we just went to random places. We found Olympic Park, but we’re going to go later, when it’s closer to the Olympics. Then we walked through a market and went to a bookstore. The bookstore was cool. It’s been there since 1797, so the building was cool. We all just looked around for a while, which was fun.

That all sounds like nothing, but it took a good four hours! Once we were back, we just relaxed while eating strawberries and Cadbury chocolate from a jar. That stuff is SO good! I’m pretty sure that there will be Cadbury chocolate in heaven. :)

Later, while Molly and Kylee were making dinner, one of our directors ran upstairs to tell us that the fire alarm for our flat was going off downstairs. I’m not sure why we couldn’t hear it, but we opened all of the windows, and we all started trying to fan out the kitchen. I’m sure it was quite a sight! Luckily, everything was fine, but we were a little concerned about what would happen if a real fire were to break out. We wouldn’t have heard the alarm! But our director told us that he’d run up to save us if it went off. Haha. And it actually turned out to be a blessing. Keep reading.

The rest of the night was pretty uneventful, except for when our internet went out while I was trying to Skype my sister and in an effort to get a better connection, I hurried out of my room, letting the locked door shut behind me…with the key inside. Yeah, that was awesome. But since we had opened the windows earlier to get some ventilation, someone suggested that Palmer climb out the window, onto the scaffolding (for once, I’m grateful for construction!), and squeeze through our window into our bedroom. Keep in mind that these windows have openings that are less than a foot tall. Good thing Palmer’s so thin! She did a fantastic job, and she was able to unlock our door from the inside. So I’m happy to say that we did NOT have to sleep in our kitchen. :)

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