wow... day three already! how did that happen?
today, we started class..... which, on one hand was eh as we had to be ther by 8:30.... on the other hand, though, it was good to actually... think... again! haha so yes, got up around 7:30ish, took a shower and headed downstairs. Prof. handed out the syllabi and then some other document-y kind of papers. then we watched Remains of the Day.... while the book was decently okay, the movie was LOOONG. Anthony Hopkins, Emma Thompson, Christopher Reeve and Hugh Grant.... one would think it would have been MUCH better than it was. we chatted about the movie afterward for about an hour ("is this an English film?" "why or why not is it english" etc. etc.) it was a decently good discussion.
we had the afternoon off, so a couple of us went to the grocery store again. i needed drinks (apple juice and tea!) and toilet paper (yeeeeah.... glad amanda mentioned that we have to buy it ourselves, or we would have been stranded! haha) i discovered a whole aisle of tea (not surprising as this IS london! haha) and i decided that i need to learn to drink it! then we checked out a school supply store (note: be sure to bring all school supply kind of things to london - don't buy here...... L3.99 for a notebook! Aaah!) anyway, so.... we did that, then came back here and basically bummed around the room for a while. jess and i made sandwiches (well, i actually just had lots of jelly bread.... but that's good too!) We started to look up prices for plane tickets for our week off.... that's going to be interesting. hopefully we can plan it all out by this weekend.
We left for our Theaterland tour around 4:15ish - and thank goodnes as it took us nearly 50 minutes to get to Trafalgar Square from here. Prof decided to do the tour himself (he said he couldn't find any that he really liked, so he just did it). It was absolutely amazing! Theaterland was basically a much more NYC-like kind of portion of the city. It felt very Time's Square at points but it still had the gorgeous English architecture and 'oldness' to it. So we walked around.... saw a whole bunch of theaters (the place where The Messiah was first performed, the theater where the Sound of music debuted... soooo much!) Then we went to Picadilly Square ( I was so thrilled to actually be in Picadilly!) We walked around there for a while.... it was definitely a NYC kind of place.... but much much MUCH more clean. After that, Prof gave us a free hour to grab food or anything of that sort.... Amanda and I were DYING for Starbucks so she and I went in there while the others wandered other places and got food. We headed back to the designated spot around 7:30ish - and Prof. gave us our tickets to see SPAMALOT!!!!! AAAAH! I was so thrilled! - seeing Spamalot in LONDON! - how much more priceless can you get?!
The show was amazing... the leads and other actors were phenomenal.... and the theater was GORGEOUS! Afterwards, Jess, Katie and I went back to the lobby and bought programs (they don't give any kind of playbill here.... you have to buy it. L3.50) So we bought those and made our way behind the theater to see if anyone came out for autographs. I think we took a bit too long - the only autograph we got was Lancelot... but he was fantastic, so it was all good! Then the three of us made our way back home via the Tube (which included about 15 minutes of us trying to find the nearest station, a 10 minute ride and about 10 minutes of trying to find our way home.... we've never done the walk from South Kensington to IES in the dark! haha... but we made it) I talked to mom for a bit when we got home, then took a shower..... didn't want to loose more sleep time in the morning! We're all meeting downstairs tomorrow morning at 8am to head to Paddington Station for 9am and then TO BATH!!!!! I'm very excited - camera batteries are charging as we speak! hehehe
I think that's all for now..... expect MASSIVE post after tomorrow! yay bath! woot!


Journal stuff for today: Starbucks - comparisons/contrasts between America vs. England, Spamalot - some of the changes and similarities from NYC to here, movie theaters playing mostly American movies