Friday night turned out nothing like I had expected! I had planned to meet up with the MSC interns in an area of London called Pimlico, just north of the river. We met at a pub called The Constitution, a seemingly humble place on a side street. Inside it was quiet, yet crowded, and most of the patrons were beyond us in years. There was one small room up some narrow stairs where we went to look for seats, only to find a group of about fifteen young Americans who seemed to be part of a school trip. One of our girls sparked a conversation with them, and the next thing I hear from her is, "Wait...you're ALL Aggies?!" It was a study abroad group from the Galveston campus! I then noticed several of the guys were wearing boots, and I heard country music coming from someone's iPod that had been plugged in to the speakers. I couldn't have been more happy to find a little piece of home in the upstairs room of a tiny pub!
Apparently the Galveston group had been to the same pub nearly every night of their two week trip, and that would be their last night. The regular waitress had fallen quite in love with these Texans, so she had taken that night off of work just to come upstairs and hang out them. She kept bringing up trays of food, free of charge, and we had ourselves a little two-stepping party :) and naturally, we finished our night off with the Aggie War Hymn. In the first picture you can see that the group traveled with a big A&M Galveston flag, which they gave to the pub as a parting gift.
Hopefully I'll run into more Aggies during my time in London!
Much love,
Hayley
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