weird!
I can't believe this part of my journey is almost over
i've become so close to all the girls here
lately all we've been talking about is how much we're going to miss each other
not all of them go to UCI
but we're going to try to get together like once a month
i've been sooooo tired
we realized we're all just really burnt out
I went straight from finals to london to starting school in cambridge in a week
and we've been on the go all the time exploring england
there just really hasn't been time to rest
so this weekend is supposed to be for studying for next week's finals
but it's really hard to get motivated because i just want to sleep
i've been really sore lately too, i don't know what that's all about
we had another formal on thursday
afterward the TA's organized a "P Bop"
basically a costume party with the letter "P" as the theme
so I was Parisian (as in from Paris)
(don't worry the cigarette is made of a rolled up piece of paper and makeup :) )
it was really fun
they had good music and everyone dressed up
Jenny was plaid (she wore a bunch of plaid articles of clothing)
Laurie was a paparazzi
Kira and Sam were pen pals
Breesa was a player (as in european football aka soccer)
Corey and Chanel were a pair of peculiar people (they just wore random ridiculous things)
Friday we went to Stratford-upon-Avon. It's where Shakespeare was born and lived. We didn't really have any time though, or it was a weird timing. We got there at 4:30. I would have preferred to either spend a whole day there and actually see all the tourist-y locations or just arrive in time for dinner and the play. Instead we got there, had tea. About half of the group who are taking shakespeare classes at cambridge had a Q&A with the director of the royal shakespeare company from 5-5:30, so we waited for our friends who were in that, then we went to dinner. The place we went to dinner was a bad experience. The food wasn't very good and it took FOREVER to get it. like 45 minutes for a baked potato. Breesa had to get a refund because her food still wasn't ready when we had to leave for the play, so she didn't even get dinner. On top of that the service was HORRIBLE, every single person on staff including the manager was rude and clueless. lame. then we went to see the royal shakespeare company perform "The Taming of the Shrew". Honestly I didn't like it. They took some contemporary liberties with the telling of it, and for the most part it was really confusing as to who was who and what was going on. They also had a wide array of costumes that confused me, ranging from historic shakespearean costumes to 40s-era, to modern, which confused me even more. even after going online and reading the synopsis of the play, i was still confused. the play itself has this message of male dominance over women which angered a few of us girls. This version was also extremely sexualized and very crude, not for me. The only thing i can say is that the actors were very very good. The city itself wasn't too appealing, the river Avon is beautiful but a lot of the city is extremely contemporary with just a couple historic buildings thrown in, at least from what i saw of it. overall my trip to stratford was a bit disappointing though unfortunately.
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