Yesterday we went to London with our friends. We got on the train there, and Niamh shared out some chewing gum so that when we went in the tunnels our ears wouldn’t pop! When we got there, we got off at Saint Pancras Station, and had lunch there too. We brought with us some rolls and crisps and cheese. We made a good meal out of it! Once everybody had finished, we met with some more friends, Lillian, Nathan, Evie, and Gracie. It was very confusing because before we met them, we already had brought some friends with us called Gracie and Evie! With everybody along with us, we strode towards a big building where we all had organised a workshop on Shakespeare. We got in, plonked our bags in a locker, and went off with the instructor and the rest of our big, home-school group.
The workshop was a Key Stage 2 one, and even though I am in Key Stage 2, I found it a little easy and boring. The instructor was quite impatient with us. Quite a few times Tilly put her arms in the air for a detailed, she told me, answer, but quite a few times did the lady ignore her. At one stage we were given a card with a picture on it and questions on the back. We had to find the picture in one of the galleries of the museum, and then read the little sign board and answer the questions. Unfortunately most of the questions had no answer to them. For instance, we got a skull on our card. When we found the skull, we read a question, and although we read through the board a million times, we couldn’t figure out the answer to ‘What do you think Hamlet might have said to the skull?’ He could have said anything! He could have gurgled a bit and fainted, straight out, for all we know!
Apart from that, however, it was reasonably fun. At the end of the workshop, we opened our locker and got out all our belongings. Lillian and Grave and Eve had to leave, unfortunately. We, however, went and saw a Magna Carta! Annie was a bit confused, but I told her all about everything, and we went off and listened to The Beatles (?) in the corner of the gallery. We learnt some new, very good songs from them, like ‘Yesterday’, which was a lot better than something like ‘The Worst Day Ever’, as I like to call it, instead of ‘The Best Day Ever’, which is its false name. Anyway – after we’d seen the Magna Carta and some other fascinating stuff, we moved on to the tube and got off at a station lined with museums. We had a vote for whether we should go to the Natural History Museum or the V&A Museum. Gracie and I, and a few of the others, wanted to go to the V&A Museum, where they had Victorian vases and things to look at. But there was the same amount of people who voted for the NH Museum, and since Niamh was the only one without a parent, and she wanted to go to the NH one, we went to the Natural History Museum!
There we saw the model of the Blue Whale, and loads of dinosaurs and things, too. They had interactive parts where you saw if you were as intelligent as a dolphin, and that sort of thing! Smack bang in the middle of my very long dolphin game, though, a little boy came over and pressed ‘RESTART’, and then left again. But we saw all the stuffed animals and things, and we went round the dinosaur ring where we learnt all ’bout the big dinosaurs and their ways. Gracie and the others were all hungry, though I wasn’t; but when I was, I was asked, and I said, “Don’t worry – I’m always hungry!”
We had a little snacky dinner from Waitrose. We ate up all their was!
We got home a little earlier than we expected that night. It was a fun day, and I’d always want to go back to London again!