I had quite an awesome weekend. My two friends, Joe and Shaun came up all the way from Poole, Dorset (Geography class: moan) for two days, so we could attend London Expo, a clash of different subjects all under one roof. We were mainly interested in the anime part of the convention. Well, they were. I don’t particularly like anime. So much that I’ve been to two anime conventions. XD Anyway, it was pretty much the same as last year, although it was way bigger than last year and the queue was like, 3484643785 times longer. I’m not even joking. Last time, there was only my group in the queue (and we got there quite early) and like, 2 people behind the desk. This year, a whole convention hall was dedicated to queuing. The line twisted and turned at least 5 times when we got in; I heard some people have been queuing since 8:30am in the morning (the convention started at 11am for normal tickets, and 10pm for people with fast-track tickets).
That picture really doesn’t show the full extent of the queue. We were in it for just over an hour. There were loads of people giving out “free hugs”; Joe made some guy in a balaclava give me one, as much as I protested and screamed like a kawaii 13-year-old school girl. There were also loads of people dressed in cosplay. It was pretty amusing. Some people looked totally awesome; some other people looked ridiculous. Actually, most of them looked ridiculous. I mean, Caucasians dressed as Asians? Haha.
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I really enjoyed the film Persepolis. I watched it a few days ago. If you have no idea what it is, it’s based on a graphic novel about the authors life during the Iranian Revolution. It’s interesting to watch films about subjects you know little about. To try and keep authenticity, I watched it in French with subtitles, but I’m sure there’s a dubbed version at mainstream cinemas at the moment.
Boris Johnson was recently elected mayor of London. I have my reservations. To be honest, I think he’s going to a catastrophic failure. At the moment, he seems to be getting on quite well with the role, but I think it’s all the doing of his publicity team. Further on down the line, he’s going to do something outlandish, like ban all teens from using public transport or something. I wasn’t a fan of Ken Livingstone, but I felt like that he did a good job, especially during the London bombings. I love how everyone just ignores the BNP member in the London Assembly.
I decided that I’m going to take up Japanese and Mandarin sessions in the new academic year, just so I have something more interesting to do in my leisure time, and to strengthen my university application. I thought about doing something like Greek as well (which I might well do), but I haven’t spoken to the teacher in charge of Greek yet, so I haven’t decided. I’m not sure why I want to do Greek; I think it’s because I want to prove to myself that I can learn a completely different language. I’m not amazing at languages, but I find that if I enjoy it and concentrate, I can understand it pretty quick. I haven’t studied German for a year, yet I can still remember most of it. I can remember the basics of French as well, but I didn’t enjoy it that much.
