well this week...

lol, I guess it's been a week since I've written and A LOT has happened... yea... of course.

Anyways, Monday... gosh... it just took me a few minutes to remember it. We got up and went to a concert at the Royal College of Music. It's located in Kensington and we totally managed to miss half of it. Thanks Andy and Tyler ;-) jk... it's cool. They played the Beethoven Septet which is a great piece, but they did not play together as a group which is a bit sad. Great piece... ok ensemble full of great players.

After that Tracy and I branched off to have lunch. This was absolutely wonderful - we had a delicious lunch and it was really nice to hang out with someone 1-on-1. PLUS we totally stopped for coffee/tea and chocolate after. Talk about heaven, lol.

That night I totally wanted to go out so I believe it's the night I went out Salsa dancing? Shoot, well it was either Monday or Tuesday. We have this great club about 15 minutes away. It was an absolute blast. I met one guy named Adam "like the first man ever, darling" - he was flaming and drunk ( and a true Londoner... hmm...). The one great guy I danced with was Francis. He just danced perfectly in rhythm and was an amazing lead. Lol, he said I tend to backlead though...... oh well. It was a really nice night overall.

During Tuesday's music class Chris and I were asked to play Villa Lobos' 'The Jet Whistle.' It actually went really well so that was good. Later that day Todd and I took a 2 hour walk around London which was really nice. We somehow ended up in the really rich district where there were Bentleys and Mercedes dealers on the corners. Then we walked through Green Park to Buckingham Palace. There we stared at the guard until he moved... he did. I guess I should give him a break - everyone has an itch every once in a while, lol.

That night we went and saw Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream." Sort of... it was the Indian version. It's a long story, but anyways... it was definitely an experience. A lot of it was "interesting" but it wasn't really Shakespeare. Shoot... half of it was in Hindi and other languages... but that dancing and costumes were lovely. Yea... that's all I'm gonna say about that.

Also I got my laundry done thanks to Todd's and Creecy's help... I didn't shrink my beautiful clothes, lol. Thanks guys :-) Oh wait, I doubt Todd reads this bc he asked me "who reads your blog anyways" the other day

Answer: I don't really know, but I DO know who probably doesn't read it, lol

Wednesday morning we got up to go to our makeup WWII class. Our professor personifies the British culture and I love it. We only have to go to class and write 2 papers. Talk about great. Then we went to the British Museum for a tour. It was good, but I was pretty worn out. It's nice to know the history of the place. Sloane donated that money. And that's that.

Later we talked about the performance from the night before in our Shakespeare class. I like that class. She felt bad that most of us didn't care for the performance. I hadn't read the play so I was a bit nervous, but I never got caught (thank goodness!). I have a strange feeling I'm going to end up reading it right around exam time, lol.

Wednesday night was our dinner at the Winston house with Mr. and Mrs. Winston (she's SUCH a sweetheart!), Holden Thorp, Professor Oehler, and his wife. It was DELICIOUS. I'm sure Mr. Thorp thought to himself I must be starving here. This dinner also meant I started drinking around 6:30. I mean... I certainly paced myself in an appropriate manner considering the formality of the occasion, but how could I refuse free, high quality wine? Dinner went well. Chris Homick gave a charming speech about how great our program is... etc...

That night we totally went out, lol. We first ended up at 'The Queen's Larder" which is apparently haunted according to the tour of our neighborhood. I asked the bartender and he said the only thing that is mysterious is the disappearing booze and he believes that it is caused by the manager... hardy har har...

anyways, that's where I found Hoegaarden. The best beer ever. Period.

After we went to 'La Salsera' and got 2 pitchers of amazing Sangria. It was a freakin' fun night. It was also nice most of our group went. I love we all get along so well.

Thursday I somehow felt ok in the morning. I spent an hour and a half... basically all of the time I had... researching the presentation my nerdy-a** self volunteered to give to the class about the pros and cons of Britain having a Constitution. I managed to get through it. Too bad the material is painfully boring.

That class is rather boring. Not because of the Prof, but because of the boring subject matter.

All I can say is... going on AIM during class is dangerous. And thank god Tracy didn't start a brawl :-)

good times

Today (Friday) was great. Kaitlin, Katherine O and I got up and went to a concert. It kind of sucked. Well it was different. I'm not a huge fan of 21st century music... and no one EVER should own a fleece jacket with sheep on it... lol

Honestly, I'm kind of tired and need some sleep so I'll post more on today later :-) Goodnight!

(btw... it's 2AM here... 5 hours ahead of the states and we're getting up early to drink before the futbol game tomorrow! yay! )