London Calling, Summer 2003 PHOTO ukIMAGEdiary June 22, 2003 / Sunday First night reception hosted by Dr. William Nericcio at Finnegan's Wake, a lovely neighborhood Irish pub named after the final, utterly imponderable novel by James Joyce; here, SDSU's Leslie Hackett, Kristin Seeker, Jennifer Wood and, London Calling's Emory University undergraduate attache, Ian Squires, enjoy common local beverages while valiantly fighting jetlag. At the same event, Andy Hart, attempts his best James Dean impersonation. Earlier that same evening, Andy Hart checks out his neighbor's rate of consumption along with his London Calling classmates (from left to right) Andrea Torrey (white wine sitting) and Erica Anderson (white wine demurely sipped!). In the background, out the picture window, you can see a 19th century building that houses, among other things, the posh pizza joint, where Diana, Princess of Wales and former Kensington neighbor of our London Calling troupe, used to order her favorite Italian pies. June 22, 2003 / Monday Stephanie Malick, Heather Weldele, Erica Anderson and Andrea Torrey strike a pose with style at the Foundation for International Education (FIE) / Imperial College welcoming reception/barbeque at the Quadrangle on the Imperial College campus (adjacent to FIE). June 24, 2003--Tuesday Work for the students begins bright and early on Tuesday morning with our first General Studies 450 British Life and Culture Field Trip to Parliament for a guided tour with the magnificent Ian Hughes (not pictured). Here, Leslie Hacker (enjoying the fresh London morning air, left), Amanda (a peer staying in Hyde Park Gate flats from CSU San Luis Obispo), Stephanie Malick and Erica Anderson prepare for their hike ahead outside of their home across from Hyde Park. (from left to right) Stephanie, Heather, Amanda, Jennifer, Leslie and Ian approach the special tour entry portal to the Houses of Parliament. After the tour of Parliament, the students returned to Foundation House in Kensington for their first British Life and Culture class by John Makey (pictured later on below)--the individual who drives the British Life and Culture seminar.  Later that night they headed out to the WEST END for a production of BLOOD BROTHERS, a long-running musical at the Phoenix Theatre on Charing Cross road. It's right after the rousing show (four standing ovations were given to gratified and surprised actors), and Erica and Andrea stand at the gateway to the ancient and beautiful Phoenix Theatre. Hoping for a chance visit from one or two of the actors, Heather, Naomi King, Stephanie and Amanda pass the time on a sidestreet outside the theatre. June 25, 2003 / Wednesday After all that theatre the night before, the group rises bright and early and thrills to a guided tour of Covent Garden with sharp-tongued, witty Judy Pulley; Pulley continues her guided tour with a brief history of St. Paul's Church, designed by Inigo Jones, also in Covent Garden--just minutes later her presentation was interrupted by a knarly curmudgeon who tried to tell her all about the church and to basically hijack the tour; Judy held her ground and he walked off grumbling.  Ah London! June 25, 2003 / Wednesday It was now Wednesday night and the group headed out to celebrate Stephanie Malick's birthday at SOUND in Piccadilly Circus. Here Heather and Andy enjoy pre-party dinner and libations back at Finnegan's Wake Pub. Leslie, Stephanie and Amanda at the Finnegan's Wake pre-birthday party party.   Champagne in the underground! Fellow revelers from the Lexia program--Amanda, Amu, ? and Tera pose with Stephanie (center).     June 26, 2003 / Thursday After a rousing lecture on Shakespearean drama by the Old Globe's Nick Hutchison, (About a Boy) in the morning, we head out once again with Judy Pulley for a guided tour of London's thriving South Bank of the Thames river.  Here, Heather, back to camera, listens to Judy as Ian, scopes out a cool reconstruction of an ancient sea-going vessel and Naomi gazes across the shore. Andrea and Leslie, join Eli, from CSU SLO listening along the Thames; note how high the Thames is at high tide AND how beautiful St. Paul's cathedral is in the early evening in the background.     RANDOM SHOTS FROM OUR DAY TO DAY LIFE IN LONDON Watch your step getting on the underground Decidedly peculiar and somewhat provocative sculpture on Gloucester Road between Hyde Park Gate and Foundation House. Night shot of the Prince Edward Memorial across from Hyde Park Gate in Hyde Park aka London Calling's Backyard.  Queen Victoria commissioned the memorial in memory of her much loved, and much missed husband after his death. Foundation House on Cromwell Road. June 27, 2003 / Friday LONDON CALLING students and their colleagues from the LEXIA program ride the underground escalators on the way to the MUSEUM of LONDON. Jen, Heather, Kristin, Naomi, Julie and Stephanie pause to reflect on their experience of the MUSEUM OF LONDON. Erica Anderson, Heather Weldele, Jen Wood, Naomi King and Ian Squires pay proper homage to the ghosts of William Blake and Catherine Sophia Blake in Bunhill Fields east of Spitalfields in central London after a mad Magellan-like dash from the Museum of London. Action shot! Jen Wood , Cedric and Heather Weldele surf the tube on the way back to FOUNDATION HOUSE from Bunhill Fields.   30, June 2003 MONDAY The Tower Bridge is a handsome backdrop as Amanda Clifford (Adopted LONDON CALLING attache), Steph Malick and Kristin Seeker pose for another camera! Andy shoots, Cedric observes, Erica ponders and Andrea scopes out tourists as we tour the gardens around Buckingham palace. Kristin Seeker is slow to the draw with her camera and gets shot by a mystery photographer on our bus tour of London. Heather Weldele and friends test the goods at the Marlborough Head pub on a night of festivities hosted by SDSU alum Kevin Gossett! more to come, watch this space!  have a cool picture? send the jpeg to memo@sdsu.edu