London: By: Haley Sefton
Our journey then took to the great city of
London. We started off visiting St.
Paul’s Cathedral, the first Protestant Cathedral for Church of England and the seat of the bishop of
London. The original St. Paul’s
cathedral burned down during the Great Fire of London in 1666. Christopher Wren, a famous architect in
almost every major site in England, rebuilt St. Paul’s in the late 17th
century in an English Baroque, late Renaissance style.
Today, St. Paul’s is a huge tourist attraction, not
only because of its religious influence, but because of famous people who had
visited, or got married there, like Prince Charles and Princess Diana of Wales. The funerals of famous prime ministers Winston
Churchill and Margaret Thatcher were also at St. Paul’s. Moreover, the magnificent stained class and
the open sermons to the public draw large audiences to witness this historical
ritual in St. Paul’s.
After our walk from St. Paul’s, we visited the Museum
of London. It was constructed around
1976, and is free to the public. The
exhibits range from prehistoric London, known as “London before London”, and
all the way up to the present. The
exhibits do a great job of showing hundreds of years of history into a great
timeline as you go along. We also got the chance to see pictures and replicas
of buildings before the Great Fire or even before they were destroyed by
bombings during the World Wars. 
From here, we all seperated and began to discover the city ourselves. We also visited the Millennium Bridge, a walking bridge, convieniently located acorss the River. Thousands of people walk acorss each day to enjoy these beautiful sites. During our walk across we saw the Shard, Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, and the London Bridge. 
Two of the students visted Kings Cross Station platform 9 3/4. It was made famous and became a popular site from the Harry Potter movies.
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