Parliament today, Paris tomorrow

I've hit a little break in the onslaught of letters and emails from angry constituents, so I figured I would take the time to write a short piece on here.

I have quite a lot to do in the next 24 hours as my awaited trip to Paris is approaching. I will be writing letters for the rest of the workday then I have to go off to the Hansard society office and pay a housing deposit that I thought I had eluded. No such luck. Directly from there I will spending a few hours in the library working on my dissertation.

I have decided to do my dissertation on the asymmetrical devolution of politics in the UK and the resultant dissembling of Parliamentary sovereignty. Sounds fun eh? To put that into normal speak, rather than dry political jargin, the UK doesn't have three branches of government like we do in the US. So all of their political power resides in Parliament, headed by the Prime Minister. It is entirely undemocratic that one body delegates all power to local councils, and the UK has started to realize this. So their have been movements to give Scotland, Ireland, Wales and local English councils more political power...and that is what I will be writing about. If that was confusing to you, don't worry, because it is going to take me 2 months of research and 10,000 words of writing to get it down.

On a much, much more interesting note, I go to Paris tomorrow! We are taking an overnight bus, which will get us there early Friday morning. We haven't quite planned out all that we are going to do while in Paris but obviously we will go see the Eiffel Tower, Arch de Triumph, the Louvre, and there is also talk of a half-day trip to Versailles. Either way, I am sure I will have fun being tourist. Don't worry Mom, I will take plenty of pictures so that you can live vicariously through my travels.

There are about 12 of us all going on the trip together, which will make it that much more fun. In the short time that I have been here I have become good friends with a number of people. I am constantly hanging out with the people from Flat 3, so many of the others often ask me if I live with them. There are two other guys, they're names are Rob and Joe. They both go Marist College in NY. It is good to have them around, as I have found the rest of the crowd that we hang out with is overwhelmingly girls. They live with 3 girls, Alexis (who also goes to Northeastern)and Sharyl and Jess (who both go to Purdue). They are all a good time and we spend most of our time together.

Outside of flat three there is another group of girls that we spend a lot of time with, and who are also going to Paris with us. In fact, they planned the trip. Many of you may have heard the name Hayley before. She is one of my good friends from Northeastern and we kind of went through the whole application process together. We were also on the same flight over here. Hayley became quite good friends with Mom before we left so she joins me on Skype every now and then.

Well, I supposed I've wasted enough time blogging now and I really should get back to work. I booked a trip to Ireland last night, so you will all be hearing about my travels to Galway in the near future as well.

Goodbye and I miss you all.

PS: Please comment on some of these posts so I don't feel like I am just talking to myself haha