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alright. it's been a while since i've updated. sorry. um.

so tuesday, i don't remember much happening. i have class late so i got up later and went into school later. Oh. i remember. I was just really happy. I sang a little song to myself on the walk over. it went something like this:

"I'm in london.
I'm in London england."

yep. it was a good day. i still sounded funny. goose-esque. that is what me, sara, and rollie decided. goose.

Wed. is the day that never ends. Class from 10-1, then 2-5 and usually a show that night. so it's a pretty full day. we talked about second shepherds pageant and quaem quaritis and corpus christi and stuff. essentially, i feel like I'm back in Theatre History I. which is good and bad. becausee I keep knowing the stuff Chris is going to say before he says it. and Wed. we went to see Twelfth Night! for Britian today we watched a video, then went to the banqueting house,which is where King Charles was beheaded. so that was fun. I got some pictures, I'll put them up.

A group of us wandered around to try to find this one restaurant Balogonoa or something. Banadoo. I don't know. the thing about the restauraunt is that you pay whatever the time is. for instance, if it was 5 30,, you'd pay 5 pound 30. we found the restaurant, after much tromping around, but the menu was tiny and consisted of a lot of lentil beans. I'm exaggerating, but it was only about 5 dishes. so we decided to go somewhere else. we went to this italian place.... it wasn't very good. the bruschetta was delicious, but not the food. I got pesto. and the thing is, I'm used to PLU pesto. Very different from real pesto, and i didn't like it. well. i got pesto with pasta, duh.

To get to the theatre from where we were eating, we walked up and down Charring Cross road, which used to just be book stores. and the majority are still. So that was cool. I want to go back and look for plays. Twelfth night was good, Orsino was a bit to whiny mopey angry for me. And Viola was going to be. I thought. but she wasn't so that was good. mmm sebastian was nice looking. Andrew/Toby/Maria were wonderful. I got a picutre of the theatre. pretty pretty.

Alright so then Thursday, we have shakespeare in the morning, then i have a 5 hour break until my next class. when I'm back up to par, I'm going to use taht time to wander around london, but as I'm still sick, I just take naps. Nice. But yesterday the room got really loud right after I layed down. (I was in the student Lounge). But I was far too lazy to leave. and then we had Empire at this museum place, we had to take the DLR to get there.

On the way back from the museum, which was cool, but we were focused on the slavery unit. Not the most upbeat class ever. anyway, on the way back, we got on the central line. It was me, Nick, Claire, and Julia. This redfaced old man sees us get on, stands up ,walks over, and starts crossing us. like. churchy wise. blessing us. saying things like "You have the spirit in you." and "I want to make sure we all get to heaven". Then he layed his hands on Nick and started praying. I had to turn around ebcause I was laughing so hard. it was funny. And he did this for an entire stretch of time from one platform to another. luckily he got off at the next stop. Clare was like "was that get really a preist?" but as soon as he left Nick goes "yeah that guy was drunk." He was this cute little old man. It was hilarious.

We went to a pub. "The old swan" for dinner. it was alrght. we had to go get snackies before the show. I found a place that sold KINDER! it was tesco, but... the good kind of Kinder. so i had to buy them, even though I'd already gotten my snacks. Anyway. we went to the "gate" theatre, which is this converted space, which is really cool. the show was less than an hour long, and the program came with the script. The show was everything I was hopng it wouldn't be: Interpretive dance to wierdo music, found theatre space. but I loved it. The movement was so cool. and the performers had to be so strong to carry it. It was a very long, shallow stage. I really liked it though.

So today, im hopefully going to make some travel plans and look around the City with Sara. should be fun.