SA last night.

Went and saw SA last night, on a whim with 5 other people from the program. They all loved it too! yay! It was the best i've seen it in london so far!!!! there were 4 swings on, but it was so fantastic! Perhaps just because It's been running for 4 months now, but.... so good! I wan only able to talk to like, 2 people after the show, which is a very american thing to do, but I don't even care anymore.

Now i'm off to stratford. I'll try and legitimately update with everything soon.

HARRY POTTER

I SAW DANIEL RADCLIFFE AND EMMA WATSON AND RUPERT GRINT! and thier stand ins. OMG!!!

He said "good evening to us!" we were 4 feet away!

And the security guards and stand ins recognized us. The ron stand in said " You girls are mad! you're still here!" we were definately the first stalkeratzi to show up and last to leave. cool.

OMG!!!!!!!!!! HARRYv POTTER

I got really upset because I found out that Harry Potter was filming in Picadilly last night.

THEYRE DOING IT AGAIN TONIGHT AND I AM SO GOING!!!!!!!!!

i keep forgetting

to make a list of little things that are different between here and home

they don't have toilet seat covers....

a foretaste of the feast to come

Ireland Highlights:

(I just got in, and it's 12:10, so here's what I will elaborate on later)

Andy and Shiv, SOOOOO nice
Powerscourt gardens
Temple Bar
St. Patricks Cathedral
Book of Kells
Erection at the Intersection
JOHNNIE FOXES
http://www.jfp.ie/dancers.htm


just a taste. I tired.

I want to do this.

tonight, our shakespeare class went and saw "The Winter's Tale" with theatredelicatessen. It's a group of graduates who, instead of waiting for fate/luck/the biz/whatever to come knocking on their door, formed their own company, fond a venue, and started performing. it was in the back of an old office building. no curtains, minimal lights, boxes to sit on. bricks hanging in places.

Honestly it was one of the coolest things ive ever seen. IT was really cramped during the 1st half, and since we were so close to the "stage" (the playing area, really" the actors really got in touch with us. Direct contact with the audience, looking at us and delivering asides and monologues to us. And, when time comes out and says "let me transport you", the walls behind us moved, and opened up into this paying area with flowers and brght colors and open places. it was very cool. Then some actors come over to set more stuff up, and ask us to move, so we moved to sitting in the round around the playing space. the opening of the second act, the actors come out, and start dancing, and pulling everyone up onto the stage. bascially we got to be a part of the show, a part of the party by dancing and having a good time. everyone from the class got up there I think. except maybe jean. and then they kept interacting with us. and because it's a new company and poor company ,im assuming, it was a ton of double casting, but it looked really fun. (double casting? double roles, i think is what im looking for). anyway, then tey all got on the "ship" and gurried all of us who were sitting in the round to go back to the benches, and they pulled this sheet over our heads. very, very cool.

It's like, this is what theatre is. these found spaces.

also, 3 other people in the group do improv. and we want to do improv here together, me rollie, emily dermann and sara. yes please,

weekend

I got a really cute coat from river Island, I splurged using themoney that my grandparents gave me. its cute and almost everyone has said they really liked it. I also had my first primark experience. crazy,and crazy cheap, so we'll see how long my 2 pound shoes last.

like i said, we went to oxford. it was beautful. the architecture was amazing. and I've stood where harry potter people have, which was even cooler. OH, we went to the 'nklings' meeting place: the eacgle and child. and it was crazy because not even five minutes after we sat down, who do we see at our table, but Alice and Jamie and Claire. fun times.

Camden Market was good up until Sara's wallet got stolen. But she handled it very well, got her cards cancelled and talked to maggie and it looks like everythings going to work out.

Last night, I went to see "the boat that rocked" with nicole. wonderful music, funny film. oh and we got creeper stared at by a couple car full of boys on the walk home. half flattering, half creepy mccreeperton.

Um. today. got care packages from school. Notes from Jackie and faith! yay for notes. I love notes from people from PLU. HINT HINT. I also got my easter card from the family! yay! The card was delivered to the house, so that was a nice present to wake up to.

Oh, horrid dream yesterady. I dreamt i was home only in my dream i knew i had a month left, and no one really cared that i was back, except for this one guy who gave me a hug who im not really even friend with anymore, but i tried to wake myself up, and woke up in my bed at home and got really upset because i thought my trip was over. then i actually woke up and knew i was still in london.

BUT i did book a trip to stonehenge and bath by myself for the 26th of april. woo.

and ireland this weekend.

woo hoo. happy easter.

went to oxford yesterday. stood in the great hall at hogwarts... no big deal. and the ballroom lesson room. and some stairs. and shopped.

easter service at westminster. beautiful.

camden town today. and bad news bears. sara's wallet was stolen.

bad mood

I dont know why. IM just in a bad mood. I didn't do anything with people last night, although I wanted too. because jamie's host family was gone and she didn't want people over who hadnt met her host family. aslo they all live in harrow.

found a cute coat today though.

Im thinking im beiginning to get very homesick. but i dont want to go home. i just want the people over here. i miss missing out on things. and i miss being on stage and doing theatre and hanging out with mana until 1 and yeah. and, like i said, no one invites me to anything.

ugh.

im also just really tired, because shopping makes you tired.

in happier news, OXFORD TOMORROW. AND I get to audit that theatre class! YAY! ANd I got a tour of the NAtional theatre on monday and got to see a play. "Death and the kinds Horseman" wasn't my favorite, but the Olivier theatre is cool.

OH I'm also noticing that Sara, Nicole, And I each want to be right about whatveer, and so if there's ever any tension between us, it's because all three of us think we know the answer. even if we all disagree, we all want to be right.

OH! Again! So sara and I went to Oxford circus and we each found some cute stuff, we ha our first Primark Experience (1.96 for a pair of shoes.... haha.) and we shared the BEST belgian waffle I have ever had.

in general

I'm feeling lethargic. I miss last year. As i said, I love London, wouldn't trade it for anything. But I have to go home. Which sucks. Because it's a constant reminder that I'm not ehre forever, and I can't keep wasting time. I like to think i don't waste too much time, but really, I do. And I am getting out of shape.

I don't know. I miss not being around PLU people...Wait... thats wrong. I miss being around them. Seeing pictures of everyone makes me sad. and Im missing knowing whats going on. I want to hear about stuff down there. In a perfect world, they would just be here with me.

Like i said, I'm feeling lethargic. I really don't want to leave though. Because, honestly, when in the world will i get to do this again? never. And I have to get a job lined up for the summer and do something involving theatre.... I dont know though. I wouldn't know what to do. I think The Y would be good again, you make a fair amount of oney and its a good organization and everything. But

What am I doing? Really. I have no idea what I am going to do with myself once I graduate. It's not that I have no idea what I want to do, i just don't know what I am going to do. does that distinction make sense?

In more happy things, we went to the Globe this morning....

HAHA. the song Im listening to just went "let's forget we're running out of time".

Globe. It was like visitng the birthplace of my ansectors or something. so surreal. and then we did this cool workshop thing, and the opening activity reminded me a lot of our improv warm ups.

thats another thing that makes me sad. Improv and performing and the people i do that with have been a pretty big part of my life for the past 2 years, and to not have that, and seeing it change is hard. especially being over here and not being a part of that change. last year was so different. change and progression is good I know, but it's hard when I feel like I'm watching it from the outside. I'm trying to come to terms with the fact that I dont think I will ever have a really solid group of people. THat sounds really depressing, but i think it's true. I dont eman good friends, I mean like... a group. Im a pretty fluid person that way. and I kind of think i've been that way for a while. In High school I had my ddrama friends and then band friends and my friends from elementary school. Freshman year it took me forever to find a group- and I move around a lot. not like... packing up and moving out. But freshman year i was clost to the wing, and then after eclipsed and J-term.... I wasn't. I didn't branch out. It wasn't until last year i got close with the crows and the murder and the theatre department. and this year i branched out again to mana and kings and more chior people. which wasn't bad, just different. and it can be really hard because I see everyone else getting uuber close and I feel left out. there's nothing wrong with being independent, and its' ahrd to think of myself as an independent person because i feel like i rely on other people a lot. But I don't get called up and invitied to things. It takes me a long time to settle with a group. and i hate inviting myself to things. I feel like im being intrusive. I also hate judging people and I hate feeling judged. I don't know what that has to do with anything, but whatever. I just feel like... im never going to be "in" with a group. Im always going to have to stand on my own. which is scary. and for planning for next year and after graduation and after the program ends, I would much rather travel with someone else. but.... i dont really know what im trying to say.

I hate feeling like i have to be independent BECAUSE no one else wants to be with me. not romantically or anything. is it somethign i do? am i stand offish? i just feel like i cannect with a lot of people, but rarely on a deep level. a lot of times its just shallow friendship. I think. I dont know. I do have my close friends, but until i have those close friends its all on the surface. people hang out with me by default. they dont seek me out and want to hang out with me. and i wish they did. maybe this sounds whiny. im also very insecure a lot of times. it goes back to the judging things. i hate being judged because it makes me feel stupid. I try not to be that kind of person and I wish more people saw that. maybe that's self uplifting or self righteous sounding. i dont know.

i think im getting a little homesick too. But i dont want to go home. I dont want to leave london. there are so many more opportunities for things here. also, i dont want to leave because it really hasn't sank in that im here. its still very surreal. i wish that had passed, but it hasn't. Its only when im sitting on the tube thinking about people half a world away that it seems real.

the tube is a really interesting place. its wierd to think about how everyone on it, and you hardly ever see the same people, everyone has a story. everyone has a family and experiences and a life and.... it sounds wierd to say, obvious, really, but it's crazy thinking about how many people there are out there. again, no idea what that hast to do with anything but.... whatever

okay so here are some tube stories:

crazy blessing guy
awkward canoodling
nicoles secret lover kissing her on the train
other people who pretended to be spanish to get these irish guys to leave them alone.

so yeah.

long random rant.

ive gotta plan my trip.
and i dont think im going to be flying anywhere this weekend. stupid.

my life, lately

Okay. Time for a big entry to get myself caught up. I don't even remember the last time I legitimately wrote in this thing.

Alrighty. So.

Last monday: No second Improv Show. That's fine. We went to a wonderful Vegetarian place for food. Best nachos I've ever had. Saw Spring Awakening. ONSTAGE! Lovely. I sat next to Georg and Anna and Ilse And maybe a couple other people. But afterwards we were walking back to the Tube and saw where the stage door was. THere were already people standing there so It was like, well, what the heck. So we waited afterwards and met Charlotte Wakefield (Wendla) and Jamie Blakely (Hanschen) Thea, Aneuirin (I don't know how you spell his name) Bernard (MELCHIOR). He was so nice! actually talked to us and it was cool. During the performance we there were some technical problems. Some light thing started buzzing loudly during I believe and During MIrror Blue night (I think) The lights started flickering wierd. oh well. ANYWAY after we met them we were walking towards the tube station and clare was like "Maybe I should ask them out for a drink" I was like.... what???? And then she goes "Screw it, I'm only in London till tomorrow". So we left and went abck and she wasked them out for a drink, they couldnt becausee of the show or something, but they were really nice about it. Wonderful. We ended up staying at a hostel in London right by Kings Cross, Sleeping in our Clothes, and getting 4 hours of sleep. But It all worked out.

Last Tuesday: Took the Eurostar over to FRANCE!!! When I met up with my family, katie nearly attacked me. We went to the Shakespeare and CO. bookstore. Did a few museums, notre Dame. Orsay. I didn't want to do 4 museums in a day, but I didn't realize we had 2 day museum passes. Oh well. Okay. so then That night we went to L'Illusion Comique: The Illusion at the COmedie Frances. It was wierd. And I didn't understand hardly wny of it, but oh well.

Last Wed: Clare left early in the morning. Sad day. But then We weent to the Lourve, Woo Mona Lisa and a michaelangelo sculpture. Got there early, which was nice. Did the Monet Water Lillies musem thing. I accidentally left the flash on my camera so that was no good. I got yelled at. Musee D'Orsay was next. then we went to VersailleS! It was BEAUTIFUL!!! was goofy with sisters and everyone there. fun stuff. Um....... I dont remember what we did for dinner. OH We went to The eiffel tower just to tkae picutres and then to the Arc D' Triumph.

Last Thursday: Spent the day basically lounding around. And it rained a bit. Went to Moulin Rouge, got somee yummy bread at a patissere. Vionesse. Went back to around Notra Dame. I thought It would be really funny if I jumped up on Katie and dad. So I ran over to them, Yelled "Wooooooooooo!" and slipped and fell on my butt instead. It was hilarious. And It actually didn't hurt. But then We weent to the Lafeyette GAlleries. WThen we went up the Eiffell Tower!!1! Oh katie and I saw some pigeons doing it. It was awkwardly hilarious. Yeah UP the Eiffell Tower. Beautiful Then mom and dad took us out to this really nice restuaraunt and there were some other people there from washington. CRAZYYYYY.

Friday: Up early and ready to catch the plane Icky. flight was good. Got into London, got oyster cards and got to the Hotel. Um. i went home to grab stuff, laura and mom came with me. The Twilight DVD didn't wrk in my computer. Le sad. what did we do that day? I dont even remember. found a pub, wasn't that good. I basically spent the next four days at the hotel with my family.

Satuday: I stayed in to Work on stuff, and family went to buckingham palace and big ben and such. Met up to meet Julia and her husband and went to Covent Garden. There as this wonderful String band playing. very cool and energetic and fun to watch. That night... weeee........ um..... I dont rememebr again. Pizza Express maybe? I dont remember.

Sunday: Took Laura to the Comedy Club, so that was the night we went to Pizza Express. Daddy agreed with me about how wonderful the Lasagna is. I introduced my family to Minstrels. They Liked them. FAmily did St. Pauls in the Morning, and we met up at Westminster for Evensong. Hung out around Picadilly CIrcus and then ate and then comedy Club.

Monday: SChool. Gross. We saw grease that night. OH.maybe we did O'neills that night??

Tuesday: Sainsburys for food. my school for lunch. I had class, and then we went to my house for dinner. Fun stuff.

Wed. WE SAW THE LION KING!!!!!! My parents tried to april fools me that we had got the wrong tickets, and it worked. We didn't have time for dinner, and it took em a while to pretend like I knew exactly where I was going, because I didn't. Anyway, it was really cool, and really wonderful to experience with my family. I had to say goodbye to them on the tube, which sucked. but, oh well. Then I had to go write a paper. OHHHHHHh we argued with our Prof on wed. about the due date for our paper. He clearly said "we'll see where you're at on wed." and then denied saying that so...... Leah fought it. and we got our journals back. no good. I got a b. Icky. OH i also brough my parents 10000 books to take back for me. fun stuff.

Thusday: Early Morning Shakepeare. Paper writing. and Museum Visisting.

Friday: Kew Gardens. Cool. As Im walking around with people, I was listening to my pod. I said to Sarah "You know who I love? Jason Mraz". And she goes "really, he's playing here tomorrow night.

WHAT??????? I want to go!!!!!!

So we called the theatre, there were still tickets. We went to O'Neills with Bethany and Sarah called and ordered 3 tickets. One for me, one for sarah, and onr for sara. It's confusing, I know. BUT!!!!! JASON MRAZ!!!!

Saruday: WINDSOR CASTLE. Sara and I left a little after 8, got some food at the train station, and got out to windsor about 10:30. We didn't go in, but we saw it. It was pretty. we went up "The long Walk" and had lunch there.



Walked back, went over to eton College, got back to the train station, back to waterloo, Jubilee line to Green Park, Walked green Park to Hyde Park Corner, hopped on the Picadilly and then over to Hammersmith. EEEEEKKKKK.

We waited wth this guy and girl who were pretty chill. Pretty funny. They'd seen Jason Mraz Before. So.... whatver.We had standing room in the back. Whatever. It's Jason Mraz. I knew about 2/3 of the songs. He only played for about an hour and a half, so I was bummed about that. But. Like I said, It's Jason Mraz. I think My favorite part was when the band went into the audience



Um yeah. The people in th chairs in fron of us stood up, so we couldn't see. I got a cute bag. It's got a butterfly and a guitar on it. I spent a lot of money yesterday. It's okay though. Windsor was good and Jason Mraz is cool. I got sunburned though.

SO today, I think Nicole and I are going into town to look at getting our haircut. Scary.

sorry ive been lazy lately

sorry. later this weekend i will take an hour and just update this.

I'm giong to Windsor tomorrow.

and seeing JASON MRAZ LIVE!!!