We traveled to London with my husband already on Thursday morning, though the UFC event wasn't until Saturday. We hadn't had our winter holiday yet, so we had some extra holidays to use for the trip. On Wednesday evening we went to see a movie, which was called Lion. It was a story of a young Indian boy, who got lost and apart from his family. After some incidents he ended up to an orphanage, and got adopted to an Australian family. When he grew up, he wanted to find his family in India, and though it was hard, he finally succeeded in it. The movie is based on a true story, and in the end of the movie they showed also some photos of the real events, when the boy traveled back to India to meet his family. The movie was really emotional, I cried a couple of times during the movie. The first part of the movie was spoken in Hindi, so there were subtitles in English. The Australian part of the movie was spoken in English, so it was a little bit harder for me to understand everything. But I understood the main points anyway, and could follow the story line quite easily. Here's the trailer of the movie, if you are interested in it.
On Friday evening we went to see a musical. I'm actually not a big fan for musicals, neither my husband, but there was one particular show that we were interested in. It is called The Book of Mormon, and it's written by Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the same men who are behind the animated series called South Park. The musical tells a story of two Mormon boys, who are sent to Uganda for their missionary time. The time they spend in Uganda trying to convert local people is really hilarious, and not to be taken seriously at all. I laughed so many times during the show, and it felt good to understand most of the jokes the musical contained. The sense of humor of the writers is really harsh, not everyone is able to laugh for raping babies to cure HIV etc. I was sitting next to an old man, who didn't laugh even once during the show. I really enjoyed that it was possible to drink wine etc in the theater seats also, that never happens in Finland.
On Saturday evening was finally UFC event. UFC is worlds most famous mixed martial arts organisation, which arranges fight nights in different countries. They have never had an event in Finland, though nowadays there are a couple of Finnish fighters participating too. The event in London was in the O2 arena, which is huge, it's capacity is 20 000 people. We had bought tickets to really good seats, we were quite close to the cage. We could see the fights really well from where we sat, which was good. It wouldn't have been as nice to sit somewhere far, where you could have only watched the screens to be able to follow the matches well. There were totally 12 fights that evening, one with female fighters and the rest with male. The first Finnish fighter Teemu Packalen was fighting on preliminary card fight, but Makwan Amirkhani was on the main card. Both of the matches were supposed to be 3 times 5 minutes, but Teemu Packalen got knocked out already in the beginning if his fight. That was quite disappointing for us, but anyway the whole event was so good, that it didn't matter so much.
The people around us were all British, and they were quite interested in us. We talked to many of them, and they were surprised that we had traveled all the way from Finland only to see the UFC. Some crazy Finns! People there were really friendly, and they felt bad for us after Finnish fighters losses. I found it a little bit difficult to talk about the matches with the British because of the lack of my vocabulary. I have practised some self defense sports myself, but I knew the vocabulary only in Finnish. We bought the handbill, in which there are info about the rules etc. I will take some time to read it through and learn the vocabulary later.
On Sunday it was time for us to come home. The whole weekend was such a nice getaway from the everyday life of mine. =)
Field trip group so far: 8/20
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