A day out in London (Abdulrhman Ayad Hussein, Iraq, ITP 2024)

Written by Abdulrhman Ayad Hussein, Fourth Archaeological Excavator, State Board of Antiquities & Heritage, Iraq Museum, Department of ancient writings (Iraq, ITP 2024)

Today I decided to go with my wonderful and dear friends, Heba and Ruqaya, who are like my family and dear ones, and along with my wonderful friends Vinay, Shubhasree and Lillian, to the Natural History Museum in London. After several discussions about how we should get to the museum by bus, taxi, or train, we decided to go by bus after walking. 

For a distance of 15 minutes, we rode the bus. It was a wonderful and enjoyable moment. After we arrived at the museum, they tried to make us stand with the visitors to get it. So thank you, Amelia and George, for giving us the transit card! After a few minutes, he went and showed the pass card.

We crossed and entered the halls of the museum, which contains wonderful exhibits, and we saw various types of fossils. The rocks, skeletons, and stuffed animals that, through the display, reflect the amazing diversity of this country. In the corridor, I saw my friend Vinay, who took wonderful pictures of me, and by the way, he is an amazing photographer. After visiting the halls, my colleague Heba Amer and I went to the educational section in the museum because this section is close to her field of work. This department is very wonderful and cooperative, as it showed us the method of work and some of the models made by the children, which are very wonderful. Then we went to the museum’s gift shop and it contained beautiful and interesting things. After finishing the tour, we took a group photo with the help of one of the visitors.

After returning to the museum, we decided to go to the nearby Indian restaurant. From living with Sofia and Yanoa, the food was delicious, but very hot. We talked about today’s match between England and Spain, and Vinay and I agreed to go to the cheering area to watch the match after finishing our meal. After arriving at the cheering area, we found my friend Richard, so we joined him. It was a wonderful match, but unfortunately England lost. So hard luck for Amelia and George. 

Now, over to Kang Mengjie from the National Museum of china to take us along on her ITP day – learning.