Friday, September 11, 2009

Better

Alright. The week got better from Tuesday. I knew it would, it was just nice for it to actually happen.
Everything else has been pretty low key. I didn't have class on Wednesday, so I mostly just wandered around and took care of some stuff. (Exciting stuff, I know.) But at night, I went with a couple girls from my house to see the new Dorian Gray movie!! It just came out in England and isn't coming out in the US, at least, not yet (haha). Our tickets had assigned seating, which I've only seen in the US at a movie theater in LA, but is apparently what they do in pretty much all the other countries. So I felt very swanky heading to our numbered seats in the theater. The movie was very wrong, in terms of being an adaptation of the book, but it was gorgeously shot and even had an "Oscar Wilde" scene (as my roommate decided to call it - it means boys kiss!), which made me really happy. I'm sure it would have made Oscar happy as well.
On Thursday I had my Shakespeare in Performance and Late 20th Century British Drama classes. I'm excited for both of them. And it's cute because the classes are taught by a husband-wife crazy British, academic, and theatrical couple. (The wife teaches my Shakespeare class and the husband teaches the British Drama course.) They're really cute in their British-ness. But the highligh was definitely going out with Andrew Butterworth and the other interns. Andrew Butterworth decided to take all of us interns out to the Huntsman (a pub that's really close to our study center) for drinks and just to hang out with each other. And like I've said before, A.B. is fantastic. He was talking to us about how nervous he is because he's leaving a couple weeks to do a short college tour in the States promoting ASE. He kept asking us questions because he wanted to make sure he didn't do things wrong. It was really adorable (and British). Then I spent most of my night musical theatre nerding out with a couple of the other girls in my house. Really, the best way to spend a night.
Today, a group of us are going out for an English tea. Then tomorrow a big group of us from ASE are going to a rugby game! I'm excited. And I'm sure there will be a full report.
And to make up for the lack of exciting stuff going on in my life to talk about today, I present you with some more British and Bath-ian (?) observations:
I don't know if they do this all over England, or just in Bath because the roads are so narrow, but pretty much everyday I see a car parked halfway on the street and halfway on the sidewalk. So half the sidewalk is taken up by a car. Personally, I'm not okay with with. I much prefer my cars to be fully on the street and entirely out of my way.
On the positive side, it makes me really happy to see all the British kids coming home from school in their cute little British uniforms. I know there are kids who wear uniforms at home, but it's not as cute. Probably because they're not British.
That's all I've got for now. Cheers :)

1 comment:

Danielle Fletcher. said...

yeah, cars park like that all over England.
the roads are just too small.

but, hey, they do that in san francisco, too.
so, I guess it's something that plagues the world.

also. I agree.
British kids in their school uniforms are basically the cutest thing ever. :)