Last Weekend
I mostly slept and did homework. But I did go for two runs and get to the store for groceries! yay for me.
Monday
Nothing super exciting happened on this day. We had good discussions about The Taming of the Shrew in Shakespeare class and about Great Expectations in my novel class. I worked on my Shakespeare paper in between classes (which I was very proud of myself for). After class it was basically home and dinner.
Tuesday
This day I got up, did homework, got ready for school, etc. Then, after a short Dickens discussion (which was very interesting), Bethany and I went to visit Evelina!!! (Evelina, for those of you who don't know, was Beth's roommate last semester. She's from Sweden and is really, really nice.) After that I met up with people and we ate at this cute little restaurant called Small & Beautiful by that night's theatre (which was called the Tricycle). The play we saw was called Damascus. It was...interesting, but a lot of us didn't particularly like it. It was a bit choppy and too long. And we got home really late. :P
Me, Bethany, and Evelina!Wednesday
And then we had another looong Wednesday. Our theatre class was alright. It's still a lot of lecture and hardly any discussion, but oh well. But to break things up a bit, we all got to go to Greenwich for our Britain Today class! It was so cool. We went to the National Maritime Museum, the Queen's House, and the Royal Observatory. I loved it, but we weren't there for long, so I definitely want to go back. I got to straddle the Prime (Greenwich) Meridian. woohoo! That night we went back to the Novello (where we went to our first play) and saw The Taming of the Shrew. It was very...um...interesting...peculiar? The play isn't my favorite Shakespeare to begin with (to say the least), so it already had a handicap, but it... yeah. Just imagine a first act consisting of over-the-top humor (with actor's not trusting the script and instead going for the easy, lewd jokes) and a second act that quickly becomes a tragedy (but still with manages to fit in the lewdness). If you need more details, let me know. It had a very powerful ending and was a really unique take on the play, but overall it wasn't a good show. But, hey, we got home late again! oh wait, that's not fun. :P
Me standing over the Prime Meridian!Thursday
This was the day our papers where due. (So, of course everyone was a bit sleep deprived. hehe.) But we all had lots of things to say about the play from the night before (we kinda tore it apart...). Afterwards, Anne, Jamie, Danika, and I started reading King Lear (our next play) outloud. It was quite fun and we got through a lot, which was really nice since we have to have it read by Monday. Then I went on an errand for Tom D., which was not successful. :( And I walked around and saw Piccadilly Circus. Then I got to come home, take a shower, and finally relax. aaahhhh.
Friday
This day I slept in (I really needed to) and did some homework (finished King Lear!). I went to this really nice place nearby called Kenwood House. It's this beautiful park and museum, but I didn't go inside the house that day. I'll have to go back so I can see the artwork and the rest of the grounds.
Saturday
Yesterday Anne and I (and Nicole) went to see...Spring Awakening!!! It was AMAZING! It's just...I can't describe it. It's this great mix of musical and rock and alternative/simplistic theatre. It's great! Now I really want to listen to the music all the time (and I just got it from Anne, so I'm very happy). Then Anne and I took a walk and saw Buckingham Palace (so pretty!) and then we went over to Big Ben and all the surrounding (amazing!) buildings. (So pretty in the evening!) I don't think there are many things more beautiful than Big Ben all lit up at night. (I started having images of a boy in green flying through the sky.) :) Then we went to o'neills for dinner. And then came home. It was a very successful day. XD
Yay for Spring Awakening!
That's Buckingham Palace behind me! :)Today is Sunday and I'm just doing homework, writing postcards, talking to people on gmail, and thinking about Spring Awakening! :)
P.S. We saw this when we were walking around on Saturday--I thought of you Patrick! :)
Yay for being thought of! Anyway Spring Awakening sounds amazing and I really want to see it now
ReplyDeleteMy favorite song is "Mother Who Bore Me," but I like the reprise better, with all the harmonies. -jealous!-
ReplyDeleteHi, Sara. I enjoye your updates; read them first thing every morning. I thought these quotes were interesting:
ReplyDelete"Why doesn't the United States take over the monarchy and unite with England? England does have important assests. Naturally the longer you wait, the more they will dwindle. At least you could use it for a summer resort instead of Maine." W.H. Auden Anglo-American poet, 1907-1971.
"Cool, and quite English, imperturbable" Lord Byron.
" 'Tis a glorious charter, deny it who can,
That's birthed in the words, 'I'm an Englishman.' " Eliza Cook, English poet, 1818-1889 "An Englishman".
"An Englishman's never so natural as when he's holding his tongue." Henry James.
"We do not regard Englishmen as foreigners. We look on them only as rather mad Norwegians." Halvard Lange, Norwegian historian, 1918.
"Englishmen will never be slaves; they are free to do whatever the Government and public opinion allow them to do." George Bernard Shaw Anglo-Irish playwright; The Devil, in Man and Superman, act 3.
" He carries his English weather in his heart wherever he goes, and it becomes a cool spot in the desert, and a steady and sane oracle amongst all the delirium of mankind." George Santayanna, U.S. philosopher, poet. Soliloquies in England, The British Character 1922.
Opps! That's me, Poppy L, with the quotes.;-)
ReplyDeleteDouble drats! "Enjoy"! PoppyL
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