on london

some fairly terrible events happening in the uk this week...i remember being at home and mike on his computer saying london was awarded the olympics, and then refreshed the same news site where it was reported that there had been terrorist attacks in the london tube. it happened thursday night for us so the thursday morning bombing was just taking place. we switched on nhk which had japanese journalists with english feeds as they had no time to take care of the translation yet. cant wait for cnn at freebell for a real news channel. the biggest bomb was between kings cross and russell square subway stations, which was pretty much exactly where my hostel was when i stayed in london.

the story is pretty big here with koizumi in england for the g8 summit and everything. some students were able to tell about the big gas bomb that went off in the tokyo subway about ten years ago, but none seemed to be worried about terrorism except for my almost fluent political scientist professor student who im always able to talk about world events in great detail with. she says any country thats in the g8 should be worried about terrorism, and id have to agree.