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AS Trip to London

AS Music Class London Trip

On 16th February the AS level Music class, along with Mrs Hodgins and Mrs McCloskey, left Wellington College for an overnight trip to London. We left school at 8am on the Monday morning and headed for the city airport. We arrived in London around lunchtime and took our first of many tubes to our hotel. Once we arrived at the Ambassadors Hotel we unpacked and went for lunch. Our original plans for the night were to get ready and go to Covent Gardens before the show. However, Mrs.Hodgins could not decide what to wear from the wardrobe she brought with her, so we had to change our plans! Eventually we were all finally ready to go to the theatre. We went to see ‘Hairspray’ the musical, which we all thoroughly enjoyed! Due to Leah’s nut allergy we were lucky enough to get to sit in one of the boxes to enjoy the show. We couldn’t resist but get up and have a dance to “You can’t stop the beat” or sing along to “Welcome to the sixties” and “Big Blonde and Beautiful.” We loved the big production with some famous faces among the cast including Verity Rushworth from Emmerdale as “Penny Pingleton.”

When we got back from the theatre we were all very tired from a long day but we had just enough energy to make a late night trip to Sainsbury’s in our pyjamas to get lots of food to eat before we got a good nights sleep.

On Tuesday we were up early eating our breakfast to keep us awake for our big day ahead. We got on the tube and headed for Oxford Street to hit the shops. We all got quite a few bargains, typical Grace got too many as when we where crossing the street, her bag broke and her shopping was spread out in the middle of Oxford Street! Mrs. Hodgins also stocked up on her yearly Desigual supply of clothes! We all met up for lunch in Bella Italia where we enjoyed a rest from all the shopping before setting off again. After another hour or two of shopping we met back at the tube station to travel back to the hotel to get our suitcases. We headed for the airport on our last tube ride together, whilst in the tube station a pigeon decided to fly into us resulting in a few strange looks from the crowds as there was screaming involved!

We got to the airport and all arrived home safely back to Belfast to get back into the normal routine of school for the next day.

Looking back on our trip to London, we all had a really great time and would like to thank Mrs.Hodgins and Mrs.McCloskey for putting up with us!

By Naomi Cowan, Leah Garnham, Grace Kerr & Kathryn Mayes.