July 22nd

I am so tired! This morning we woke up at 4 to meet Darrin at 5 30 to catch a trian at 6 45 to Birmingham, which was about an hour ride, then from Birmingham we got on an hour bus ride to go see Brintons Carpets. Brintons Carpets is one of the oldest carpet companies in the world, they've been in business sence the 1700s. They've done carpet for places like Buckingham Palace and lots of casinos, it really high end carpet. It was so cool, they split us up into four groups and they had us do rotations. The first rotion was the archives. They have patterns from as early as the 1400s, it was way sweet, the lady was awesome too, she let us look through their archives. After about an hour of that we went with one on the designers and he showed us their newest designs and a little bit of how they design a pattern on the computer. They then provided us all with lunch, it was a really interesting lunch, not quite sure what it was to be honest, but we were grateful and we ate it. After lunch we got back into our groups and we got a tour of the factory. It was way neat to see the process of making a piece of carpet. Our last rotation was well, to be honest, I was so tired that I drifted in and our of it a lot. I felt so bad but I was so tired from getting up so early this morning. It was an awesome day and I learned so much. Brintons would be a great company to work for. I don't have any pictures today because they wouldn't let take any inside and I was sleeping on the bus and train so, there you go. When we got back into London it was like 8 30 so we came back to the flat and made dinner and now we are doing laundry. Good times!