It's exactly as it sounds -- in the middle of London my bra snapped in to two.  Not at the back.  At the front, the bit where there's usually a pretty little bow.  I was also wearing a top with a lace panel at the front which made it extremely difficult to manoeuvre myself into definite dignity.  Frankly, I was in quite a tizz.  More by luck than anything else we were situated outside Victoria's Secret when this happened - obviously it was a sign i needed to buy a bra (it's so pretty and comfortable and pink) and a make-up bag....and lip gloss.

That wasn't even the most exciting part of my weekend as 12 hours previously i was stood in Wembley Stadium watching the incredible Eminem on his first of two London shows.  I wasn't sure what I was expecting but in all honesty I was blown away, he was insane.  I've never seen a crowd so electric as the one that night.  Eminem did not rap one word on his own, there was so much passion.  When he brought out the one and only Dr Dre the stadium erupted into screams, claps, cheers and tears.  Dre was equally as amazing for the songs he stayed for.  The support acts Danny Brown and Odd Future (who i was obsessed with in year 11) were awesome themselves, the crowd loved it and gave a brilliant reaction -- rare for a support act.  I wore a backless missguided playsuit.

I also experienced my first Megabus this weekend.  It was good, got me from A to B.  My only annoyance was the lack of Wifi that had been advertised, but there was a service stop break and I had the most delicious Waitrose southern fried chicken wrap -- does that sound pretentious? I don't care, it was good.

Then after getting into Cardiff at ten to nine, and into Bridgend at around 9:30 I made it to a leaving night out for our Assistant Manager in Fat Face -- shout out to my Dad for coming to get my suitcase off me at 11.

It's been a brilliant weekend, happy summer!

Yesterday I arrived home from my trip to Laaaaaaaaaaaaandaaaaaaaaaan.  Any regular readers of my blog will know that this week I was doing a three day course in Fashion Journalism at London College of Fashion, and boy, did I enjoy.

Tuesday
After a somewhat eventful journey to London including not knowing if we are eastbound or westbound, getting told to buy the wrong tickets and a dominoes pizza we woke early on Tuesday to make sure we had plenty of time getting to Lime Grove.  Thanks to Holiday Inn's complitmentary breakfast we were also happily nourished.  Yum, scrambled egg.  So we jumped on the tube at North Acton and jumped off at Shepard's Bush and skipped all of the way to LCF (note: small use of artistic license).  When I got there 45 minutes before the course was due to start I was pleasantly surprised to see two other girls also waiting for the same course, maybe being early is a journalism thing.  Over the next 45 minutes the other girls arrived and we all sat quietly and nervously in the foyer.  Eventually our course leader Julia Robson arrived and took us to our classroom.  We spent most of the morning introducing ourselves and finding out more about Julia, she has worked at British Vogue, Grazia, The Daily Telegraph and now freelances while teaching at LCF.  As you can imagine, she had a lot of impressive stories up her sleeve.  We learnt about what fashion journalism really was on the first day, about trends, ideas, fashion shows.  We had a group project where we had to walk down to Westfield shopping centre and plan an article, ours was about Kimonos.

After the course ended at 4:30 I met my mum and sister and we got on the tube to Oxford Circus where the London Palladium is.  After much deliberation we decided to eat in Spaghetti House before we went to see A Chorus Line, which was absolutely stunning.  If you ever et chance, please see it.

Wednesday
Wednesday was quite sad because we all knew we were half way through *sad face*.  We began by writing up our articles we had planned on Tuesday, it was really nice to have someone with as much experience as Julia looking at our work and complimenting our writing style.  Perhaps the most interesting part of the few days, for me anyway, was on Tuesday when we looked at interview technique.  It wasn't necessarily that what she was saying was ground breaking but just so useful.  We later conducted our own interviews with eachother (easier said than done for us when the lovely Flora fell ill and had to leave, meaning myself, Vicky and Becca did a triangular interview) about personal style.

Later on Wednesday I spent the evening buying birthday presents in Westfield and had a delicious Byron burger for dinner.

Thursday
LAST DAY BLUES.  We spoke a lot about brand and advertising, taking a slightly more PR based look at the world of fashion.  We also looked at film and it's influence on fashion and I have come away with a list of films to try and watch soon! I wish I had more to say but without copying my notes on to here there isn't a lot else to say!

We all made emotional farewells and then we were off, I really met a bunch a lovely girls this week and I hope we do stay in touch, especially as I could end up in uni with some of them!

I would recommend this course to anyone, and if not this one, they do many! I'm sure there is one for you!

I am notorious for not being able to dress nicely while travelling, I have a penchant for wearing sweatpants and putting comfort over everything.  So for this weeks trip to London I thought I would do it differently.  I'm going for a maxi skirt and jumper from Urban Outfitters, It's a nice outfit to travel in because it is just so soft and comfortable, I even added a wooden necklace for a bit of accessorizing. 

I absolutely adore London so I am super excited to get going and get on my course, but I am really nervous about not knowing anyone and not making friends, if you or anyone you know is attending the London College of Fashion Fashion Journalism summer school please direct them my way! 

All packed! I might not be able to write posts for a while, especially as I'm going to see 'A Chorus Line' in the Palladium tomorrow, it is one of my favourite shows so I am bouncing with excitement.  

See you soon, wish me luck! 

Today I received my brochure for short courses at London College of Fashion.