Plays and Musicals

This afternoon in my two hour globalization class, I made a grocery list as well as a list of things I've done since Tuesday. I also wrote my name several times in highlighter and accented the HOT PINK with my black pen. Then, I organized my notebook. And rewrote an entire page of notes on a fresh piece of paper. I can't do economics or political science well ever, let alone from 3-5 on a Friday afternoon. Classes are going ok but I'd much rather be running around the city spending money than sitting in a classroom.

On Tuesday night, Jon, Ryan, and I and the majority of our classmates scored free tickets to A Midsummers Night's Dream at THE Globe Theatre. Ryan and I rented pillows to sit on for £1 which made the three hour production a little less painful considering all the seats are wooden with no backs. The roof of the theatre is thatched but very little of the stage and all of the main floor (where the "groundlings" pay only £5 to stand and watch the play) are covered. The production was really really great and I'm looking forward to getting more Shakespeare under my belt. There's nothing quite like listening to a Shakespearean play done by players with real British accents.

Inside the Globe (our seats were in the center on the third tier:

I ate lunch and finished up some reading on the steps of the British Museum on Wednesday since the GIL site is literally a block and a half away. Before heading back to class, I walked inside and saw the Rosetta Stone and some really cool Greek things (the museum's been free to the public for over 200 years). The museum is absolutely massive and it was strange to walk among things that were ancient. Many of the statues had broken faces, broken arms, and broken penises but were otherwise still intact. This impressed me. As much as I wanted to, I decided not to buy the Rosetta Stone mouse pad (but there's still time). Upstairs, I saw several awesome sarcophaguses as well as some cooking utensils from Mesopotamia. The last part of my museum class was actually held in the museum which makes me think I'll be spending quite a bit of time exploring the place later on in the semester.

Yesterday and again this morning I had to wait around the house for the plumber before going to school. This morning I had to leave before he did so we all decided to take to school or hide all of our valuables in case he decided to rob us. Since I haven't been home yet, I'm hoping my lap top his still under my pillow. It sounds like next week we'll have an actual shower. For now, we're just going to have to deal with bending over under the garden hose-like faucet head.

Thursday night we saw a musical called The Harder they Come about the birth of Reggae music. Needless to say, the music was amazing and the dancing was really exciting. The theatre was neat because it was so small and the actors drank beer and chatted with us before the show. After the musical we found a bar. We had a few drinks, watched Karaoke, and then went to bed.

Today we went to the Sir John Sloane Museum with my museum's class. The museum is a house Slone (who was a famous arcitect) converted into a museum before his death. It's owned by the city of London and is jammed full of interesting found objects and artifacts. After touring the museum, I ate lunch on the steps of the British Museum and read.

Tonight we're watching the last episode of Project Runway, eating hamburgers, and possibly going on a pub crawl.

OH! And I had my first walking tour yesterday near the Tower of London. It was incredible and I took excellent notes.