Yet Another Post Today...Huzzah!

I just realized I didn't mention in my last post the performance that I saw...Well, I posted a picture and intended to write a little blurb about it...but I didn't. Anyway. We saw our first performance yesterday...the 2:30pm matinee of Twelfth Night, with Derek Jacobi (Don't fear if you don't know the name, just know that he's famous) and Samantha Spiro, whom I recognized from the last episode of Coupling.

It was really a great performance. It stunk that we were all exhausted beyond belief, but oh well. It was still quite enjoyable. We saw it at the Wyndham Theatre, which has been around for...forever...I can't quite remember all the history right now. Still so tired...

And I have about 40 pages of reading to do for class tomorrow...ugh!

We have an 1.5 hours long class session every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday morning from 9:30am-11:00am. Then on those days we have a bit of a break and then go out for some lunch. On Tuesdays and Thursdays we go on "excursions" to different places around London. Today, for instance, we went to the National Portrait Gallery and looked at portraits of historical England figures...mostly studying the theatre peoples. Very cool.

We are seeing about 10 shows while we're here, in the afternoons and evenings. It's wonderful. For the most part we are on our own for the evenings, fending for ourselves with dinner and exploring.

I'm on the computer in the lounge room in the downstairs of the "hotel." Our group is discussing how people are incredibly rude at the restaurants. We got turned away so much, it's ridiculous, and the way we've been treated in some places is stupid. The best we've been treated have been in some of the pubs, so I like it in those places.

Oh there's so much more to tell... I can't really think chronologically though. I can just think of moments. Seeing people completely passed out on the road on New Years, getting treated by policemen...being made fun of by Londoners for being such a tourist...Rachel calling out to the British man at the pub, telling him his voice is sexy...reading British Cosmo, which is so much raunchier than ours...keeping our Fosters and Magners on the window sill to stay cold, because it's freezing by the window (and pretty much everywhere else) in our room...

The "hotel" we're in, Vandon House, is quite nice. I share a double room with Erin and we have a horrible bathroom, but that's cool. And a television with 4 channels that work whenever they want to. ONly one of the channels is halfway decent, only because they show Friends at like, 8am. And then The Simpsons. So much for watching British television in London. I guess I'll have to continue to do that just in the States.

I am now facebook friends with all those Brits we met last night. They tagged a pic or two of me and apparently I'm an "Interesting American." Hmm...

Well, I should go do that reading for class.
Edward Scissorhands the ballet tomorrow? Mmm :)
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