Woke up early for a volunteer study at the Psychiatry Department at Guy's Hospital. Well, ok, it wasn't exactly a volunteer study. I get paid £10 for filling out some surveys. The study was supposed to be about eating disorders but the surveys were mainly about how one feel towards events and situations. I was quite curious how the 2 connect. After filling out the surveys, the i/c of the study informed me that they feel people with eating disorders have some personal characteristics in common. So, they are studying to see if their hypothesis was true and how they can make use of the results to better treat patients with eating disorders. In fact, the tester analysed my results for me and I wasn't surprised to see that I do share some of these common personal characteristics.
Finished up the survey and walked over to the library at Guy's campus to do my reading. Got hungry after a couple of hours and went to Mac's for lunch. Need to feed my brain! Besides, I was getting restless already also.
After Mac's, decided to walk over to the Maughan Library over at Strand. Have only seen the facade of the impressive-looking library last week during the KCLMSS walk-about, but didn't go in.
Wow! The place is impressive both inside and outside! It's terrible old, with these tiny and narrow walkways. It was deadly quiet like a tomb, filled with all these immense law books. The engineering books are supposed to be in some remote room in a far away tower - will hunt for those another time...
Got myself a cubicle at discreet corner to do my reading. Oh my, it was such a perfect environment to fall asleep in. Definitely not a place conducive for me to do my reading. The library at Guy's suit me just fine. Some bustle and life to the place. I can take a breather during my reading and look out into the courtyard, instead of staring at rows and rows of 'silent (and extremely scary) teachers'.
After a while, it was time to move off again! Like I mentioned, I was falling asleep in the tomb-like place... But it was time to meet Iggy for dinner before we went for the Film Soc movie showing. I made my way slowly to the Strand campus. Enroute, I fell victim to a sale and bought a small Forever Friends bear. My mum removed the 2 soft toys I had packed in my care-boxes when she had to repack them to fit in the smaller DHL boxes. Anyway, it was a nice reward for myself - I had survived London almost for a month now and I have been on task for my studies and reading!
Bought some drinks for dinner - ginger beer for me and lemony soft drink for Iggy. I had no idea what a lemony soft drink was. Have been very long since I had ginger beer, so decided to get one since everything else seems exorbitantly expensive by comparison. Iggy bought Japanese takeaway for dinner - yum yum. My first Jap stuff in London. Pity I forgot to take photo. There was lovely unagi sushi and california roll.
Then we went to the Film Society film screening in one of the basement lecture theatres. We were just in time. It was an interesting French film tonight - City of Lost Children. Very nice cinematography - it feels strange yet familiar, old yet futuristic, all at the same time... And the last part was so sweet, the girl's willingness to sacrifice herself for a little boy she didn't know.
After the movie screening finished, took the tube back instead of walking like last week. Gosh, I was totally freaked out last week walking along the dark and deserted way back to my accommodations. No way am I going to take that route after sunset anytime!
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