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Sorry about just getting around to posting pictures and blogging. I just got access to my host family's wifi. The flights and traveling on wednesday/thursday were long and very tiring. We got picked up from SCD around 1 here on thursday by our host families and hung out with them that night. Friday, about half of us and our host kids met up and went shopping together. We first went to Lillywhites, a massive 6 story sporting goods store in Picadilly Circus, and then to Westfield Mall. The Westfield Mall is fairly new and the biggest in England at around 73,000 square feet. Saturday morning we had our first training session in the morning at SCD School with one of their coaches Mr. Chapman. After that we all went to a Coca-Cola Championship League game at Watford Stadium and watched Watford v. Birmingham FC. Birmingham FC won 1-0 and the game was rather fun to watch. Sunday we had a day with all of our host families and I personally went to a porfessional rugby game and watched the Saracens v. Leister Tigers and the Saracens lost on a last second kick. The game was really cool. Monday - We had another training session in the morning with ex-footballer Luther Blissett as our coach. In the afternoon we met up with my parents, the cormiers, and mrs. malmer in London. We walked down the Thames River and across the London Tower Bridge. We then hopped on the Underground over to Enbankment. There we stopped and took a ride on the London Eye. The London Eye is a 400 ft. high ferris wheel that gives you a view of historic London sites. We saw Big Ben and Buckingham Palace along with many other cool sites. Next we hopped back on the Underground and went back to Picadilly Circus. We shopped mainly in Lillywhites again and some of us went to other souvenir shops in the area. Then all 20 of us enjoyed a nice dinner at T.G.I. Friday's. Today, Tuesday, we had another training session and this time Alex C. was our guest coach. (Not sure what his last name was but he was a former player for Watford.) After training we went to take a tour of Wembley Stadium. It was incredible. The place is massive, seating 90,000 people. We were able to see the locker room and look at the England Team's jerseys. We were on the ground level and walked out right next to the field although we werent aloud to actually step on the grass. The tour was very cool.

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