Day 23-25 Manchester

Day 23 - On Tuesday we went to the Thinklab at Salford University outside of Manchester. The construction school there, as with everywhere else in the U.K., is referred to as the School of Built Environment, and Salford University is well known for the school. That night, we went to Manchester’s Royal Exchange Theatre to see the comedy “Charlie’s Aunt.” It was absolutely hilarious, even all the boys were laughing hard. It would take a while to tell about the synopsis...but check it out on google. The theatre itself was really cool but hard to explain…I’ll post a picture soon.

Day 24 - On Wednesday we visited the Media City project being built by Bovis Lend Lease. It is a large project being built in Salford by the BBC. It was cool to see and hear about the controversy of the BBC moving north, but it was not too exciting. We didn’t even get to walk on site…After that, we went and worked on thesis for the rest of the night.

Day 25: TURNED IN MY THESIS :-) I stayed up till about 12 Wednesday night just putting finishing touches on my thesis, and after copying and pasting documents realized the links did not copy. So I worked on the bus on the way out to the wildlife refuge project we visited (not too exciting either) and on the way back to re-update the links. I got it done, though, and turned it in at 5:30pm then headed to the airport where I am now waiting to board my plane to Dublin!!!!!! So I am sitting in the Manchester airport waiting on my flight and decided to take out my computer and update my blog. It is really hard to do, though, because I have worked so hard on thesis and this was supposed to be my fun weekend after I turned it in. I didn’t have internet all week and I was really busy completing and putting the finishing touches on my thesis, so I was not able to focus on the blog that much. I went ahead and wrote Monday’s in a word document on Monday night, so that is day 22. The rest are combined below because it was a really uneventful week with a lot of schoolwork, so there really isn’t that much to tell.

It is crazy to think we have been here for four weeks. It does not feel like it at all. I am glad Mallory, Clinton and I decided to stay an extra week and go to Italy, because I would be really sad if I had to leave next week. I really hope we get to do what we want to do our last week in London. This will probably be the only time I am in London and want to do a few other things besides go visit more companies, jobsites and museums!

As I said earlier, I turned in my thesis today, now all I have left is to make a flash presentation for my presentation next week!