So I am making a 'change' in my wardrobe - my 3-6 year old 'Alaska/North Pole' T-shirts are showing wear and tear, so I've decided to start making a change to 'London' T-shirts (I know, I think WAY outside of the box).
So I got my 'UCL' (University College London - my school) and University of London (my school is part of the University of London system) stuff and was just walking along when I realized 'OH! I'm in LSE territory!' LSE - London School of Economics (where JFK attended) is part of the University of London system, and I guess we should all love one another as 'brothers and sisters', but I've learned some of the schools don't. It was the weirdest feeling, and might I add a VERY scary feeling, to suddenly realize you're 'the enemy' and you're in your 'enemy's' area! ;) Scary and odd, but then just to be a punk I asked my friend, Maria, to take a picture of me....don't I look all 'haha' on the outside, and yet on the inside it's 'do they carry AK's around here?' ;)
So MY school was the ORIGINAL University of London. We were created as an 'anti-establishment'/raggamuffin school where Catholics, Jews, etc. could get an education (at the time you had to be Anglican to graduate from Cambridge and you had to be Anglican to be accepted into Oxford, or vice-versa, I forget). SO, one year after we were founded as the ORIGINAL University of London, along came 'the Establishment', 'the Man', i.e. The Anglican Church, nobility, etc., and established their 'answer' to MY school and created King's College. Being a non-English person, I don't get the rivalry, but believe me there SURE IS ONE! I was a hometeacher to a girl who went to King's. I just mentioned that I went to UCL and she was like 'ohh' (with a bit of 'disgust' in the tone ;) Whilst living here in Berlin there have been two King's College students who lived in my dorm and both, upon finding out that I go to UCL, rather than welcoming me as a 'University of London, brother' instead went 'oh...' (with roughly the same disgust ;)
Hmm....'why can't we all just get along?' .....
