London 2012

Given my mom's curiousity about my course, I thought I'd drop a few observations about the Management Accounting course I am attending at the LSE.

1) The prof is quite nice but has a tendency to speak very softly (there are over 100 students in the class).
2) He tends to deviate from the Management Accounting course to talk about strategic marketing and management subjects along with the history of accounting although this could all be a very long introduction into the subject at hand
3) Up till now, I have learnt all of this in previous classes so I don't feel swamped and can follow quite well

All in all, I am impressed with the class and I have learnt some new information.

Now to the fun stuff. After class, Ashish, Ted, Nina, Marko, Sharonas and I went sight-seeing. We heard London had won the 2012 olympics but celebrations were nowhere to be found (Londoners are a very quiet bunch!). We thought Trafalgar square would be a great place to see some very happy Londoners so we walked past the BBC and made our way to the Thames.

We then crossed the millenium bridge, past the London EYE and then accross the Westminster bridge.

Nothing was going on at the Parliament buildings other than an anti-Irak protest, so we made our way through Westminster Abbey, through St.James Park and the minister of foreign affairs, passed Downing Street. Unfortunately, Tony Blair was not celebrating in front of his residence so we decided to walk to Trafalgar square only to find the city staff cleaning up the big mess in front of the Natural Gallery. Plenty of other tourists were also looking for the happy Londoners nowhere to be found.

We then thought they might be eating and drinking at Leicester Square. No happy londoners celebrating yet. Perhaps they were hiding at the New World Chinese restaurant? Why not grab a bite while we were there... We had one last hope... Perhaps they were buying books, CD's and DVD's at the Borders Shop on Oxford so we made our way there only to find out that Borders had a very good sale on books, CD's and DVD's.

By this time, it was late and we were all tired so we decided to call it a night and look for the Happy Londoners tomorrow. Anyway, we have until 2012 to find them :)