Finally posting after our internet outage

I guess I'll start with last night then go into today... our internet was out. Lol, in fact, Creecy called the 'emergency' number and they yelled at her for 10 minutes about how an Internet outage isn't an emergency. I'm with her... it is an emergency...I freaking need the Internet.

Anyways, here is what I wrote on Word last night... I'm having to transcribe it since apparently you can't copy and paste from Word into here (yea... and it's a lot which sucks):

Well today Creecy and I went shopping and it was really great. I know that sounds really shallow, but I'm starting to miss home and wanted a relaxing day. I even managed to not say the F word for most of the day... until we talked about how well behaved we'd been at lunch... then I went back to cussing... my goal is to cut it down to a minimum by the end of this trip, lol. After eating at Subway we tried to go buy our Shakespeare plays from a store our teacher recommended located on Fitzroy St. Well... first off, I was really proud of the fact I actually looked it up in the back of my London AtoZ and found it on the map... too bad we never found the freaking place. We walked down the street and never saw any bookstore so we stopped to ask if anyone knew where it was. An arrogant guy answered it was most likely the other way (the one we had just walked...) and that it shouldn't be more than 100yds or a few blocks. Then he asked "You do know what a block is?"

What we should have said is, "Do you know what an a**hole is?" but instead we just walked away rather thoroughly pissed, so we decided to give up and go back to our flat before class to take a "break." Haha, and it was a good break... yea... After that we had British Politics from 2-5PM. It's going to be a fabulous course. Prof. Vosper has an accent comparable to the British actress from 'Love Actually' whose character gets pseudo-cheated on by her husband. She's also in 'Sense and Sensibility' with Kate Winslet. She talks about the political system similarly to the way you would talk to a best friend over coffee. She goes fast and adds her personal opinion to everything - I love it. It's hard to take notes because she goes so fast, but I definitely prefer it to boredom.

Afterwards we came back, ate dinner, then changed for the Alvin Ailey dance performance. They are an American dance troupe with a very strong reputation. They were really good. I'm not going to lie, I was only really captivated by about half of the performance, but I believe that is because I'm so much more inclined to prefer opera or musicals. The first dance was to Stravinsky's 'Firebird Suite' and the main problem I had with this one was I had no idea what kind of story they were portraying. I love this piece, but I knew they were trying to tell some story and I didn't get it, lol. Also I was watching this after having read the article 'The Ballerina's Phallic Point' all about how erotic the ballet is. So I was constantly seeing the performance from that angle. In the article it talked about how it is problematic for heterosexual males to watch men dance ballet. And of course in this number the main dancer was male and wearing a skin tight, red spandex number. At one point a ballerina totally jumped into his arms and at another moment him and another male dancer were in questionable positions. Yea... anyways... it was intense, lol

The next number was great. It was called 'The Golden Section' and it was high energy, great music, and the dancing was astounding. The last section was a number of separate dances to American, southern gospel songs. I really liked most of this routine. One section was a slow dance between a male and female dancer and it was completely breathtaking. Overall this was a great experience.

After the performance we came back and hung out around the guy's room. It was a pretty good time, but I haven't been in the best mood today. Honestly, I'm really missing my friends from home. Lol, as a disclaimer: I'm lacking sleep and I'm more apt to be emotional right now (cough cough, lol) but even so I'm sure it would have happened at some point anyways. Don't get me wrong, when I say I'm homesick I mean I wish my best friends could be here with me experiencing this. I guess I should have seen it coming. Before I left I finally found a strong group of people who really care about me... the kind it takes a lifetime to find... and that kind of support system makes things easy. The people in my program are really great, but you know... it isn't quite the same. A lot of it is I do best one-on-one. I think that is just my personality... it takes me time to get comfortable around most people. I'm sure time will help me build closer friendships with everyone else here because they really do seem really great.

And now back to today...

I'm definitely starting to feel better. I got a lot of sleep last night... maybe 10 hours. Then we went on a walking tour of our neighborhood. Lol, our tour guide looked like a tackily dressed Clark Griswald. He was incredibly knowledgeable, but I started zoning out about halfway through. Oh well... :-)

Afterwards Creecy and I went to the Spaghetti house for dinner because she has been dying to go and I'm not going to say no to eating Spaghetti, lol. It's nice having one person I really connect with easily... it definitely makes me feel less alone within the crowd. Tonight we're apparently going to a pub to watch a Rugby match between England and South Africa. Lol, apparently it's an attempt to connect to British culture. Haha, and go to a pub. Later we might go out. Now that I've written entirely too much I guess I should go socialize, lol. Ciao!