"Hi Christopher. Thank you for London."

This is probably my last post from London.
Yesterday was finals, and it was stress to the max around here. I didn't think it was too bad once we got into it, but maybe that was my excessive excitement about taking my last undergrad final ever. I also wrote my last paper - not an awesome one, but a fast one for how long it was. Under 24 hours for 8 pages? Awesome.
After finals and Indian food for dinner, Mallory, Erin and I decided to wait for Angus to come to the States and went to Brief Encounter instead. It was AMAZING. The play was actually in a movie theater, and they did all kinds of creative things, beginning with Laura stepping into the movie screen. Laura and Alec were sitting just a few seats down from us in the beginning, and we constantly had people running in front of us (actors) and it was great. Yay for the front row and student rates.
Today, Mallory and I hit up H&M and Primark one more time, and then we met Annie and Erin at St. Paul's. We took our time through it, explored the crypt (where we paid our respects to Christopher Wren and Annie said today's quote) and walked to the top to say goodbye to London as a whole. Beautiful.
We stopped on our way home to get cornish pasties at High Street Kensington, and from there we walked home through Kensington Gardens and did a little preliminary packing before dinner.
We had a short farewell party with a slideshow and a few words from the professors - I actually got a thank you card and gift from the Benfells (Sister Benfell picked out the most beautiful crocheted scarf and I LOVE it, plus it was wrapped in a map of Edinburgh) and there were many rounds of applause for everyone.
After calling a car for tomorrow morning, Annie, Erin, Mallory, David and I walked through the parks and all the way to Westminster to say goodbye to Big Ben. The picture of me hugging Big Ben will be coming as soon as Erin emails it to me, but it's amazing. We took a double decker back to the Centre, watched a little of the Olympics, did a little more packing, and now I'm going to head to bed.
It's weird to be leaving again - in some ways I feel like I just barely got here. I'm so grateful for the time I've had here and for the experiences that have helped me to figure out more about myself. The people have been great, the program has been great, London has been incredible, as it always is. And even though I'm missing Ralph Fiennes in Oedipus Rex and Kenneth Branagh in a Chekov play (dying!) I will be happy to get home to my family who loves me, my friends, my phone, my car, and Wendy's.
Look for a few more pictures to go up and for a special London Top 5s post that I've been working on. I'll be seeing you all soon.

P.S. I got an email from the HR guy from the library today. He says there are paid internships at the library. Cross your fingers, everyone!