Nearly a month ago we said goodbye and it's been pretty weird and awesome and sad since. I miss you guys more than I admit on a daily basis, but that's because even typing that has made me cry. *Handkerchief break* okay, I think I'm okay. It's easy to pretend most of the time because I am so busy usually and everything is so different here. Thanks guys so much for an amazing send off and visit me as soon as possible!
On to happy things - I got to spend four days in London! Mom, Aunt Kathy and I saw so many amazing things in London
it was lovely. The first day we went to the London Eye and saw "A Flea in Her Ear" which has been one of my fave shows ever. The cast was great, the Spanish guy in it practically made me fall off my seat laughing. It was well teched and fantastically executed, half a sleep as I was when I walked in, it was way awesome. The next day we saw the Globe, yes, THE GLOBE. It was a theatre gal's giddy explosion, I could hardly contain myself. Then of course we saw a lot more of London, and whilst it was all fun I don't really want to make a catalogue of things to see in London - let's move on.
Mom driving - wow, I've never been so stressed as I was being Mom's navigator as she drove through rural England. Poor thing, she kept being close to tears with frustration. However, her driving enabled us to see amazing things. First we drove down to Windsor Castle and it was massive and had a half lived in and half museum type quality to it. The doll house is amazing, if you ever get over to see it, it has running water! I wish I could have taken pictures, not only to show you guys, but also so I could remember it all. There was so much to take in at once. Then we went over to Stonehenge. As you drive along the road to go see it, you're wondering where the turn off will be, and then you just see it sitting by the road. It's just right next to the road, sitting there like some mystical bus stop. I would recommend going in January, there were so few people there that my pictures are unencombered by tourists - including me, I probably should have had Mom take my pic in front of it. Then we were off to Bath. Bath is lovely and so very old. You can walk down most streets and feel like you've gon back in time - until a car drives by. I convinced Mom and Aunt Kathy to stay at a youth hostel, which was novel.
At this point I was begining to get panicky, I didn't have accomodation sorted. I felt with every mile we came to Cardiff we were driving to my doom. I tried to be excited, all I managed was terrified. But I gamely navigated Mom to Cardiff. It totally turned out to be a non issue. I called up Brian, my landlord, and he told me to come on over to look at a room. That room I am typing in now. We had fun in Cardiff while Mom and Kathy were here. We went down to the bay and saw places Doctor Who was filmed. We were walking along and saw a wall with a bunch of notices on it and wandered over to see what it was about - good gravy. It was a memorial wall to a charcter who died in Torchwood (spinoff of Doctor Who), not the actor, his character died. Houndreds of posts littered a bit of fence down my the docks - where am I? What is this? We also saw Cardiff Castle, which my school is just above, and Cearfilly castle which was amazing, a bit of a ruin but wandering around a castle is always fun. It wad water all around it and they'd fixed up a main dining room which was gorgeous. Even after I moved my stuff into my new room Mom made me stay the night, she wasn't super excited about leaving me in Cardiff. But then on Saturday night I was to stay in my own room and meet Mom and Kathy for church the next morning. But when I got home it turned out two of my flatmates and a friend of one of thiers were going out so I thought bonding was a good idea. Especially since these were the two that are in my class and I was going to spend great chunks of my time with them. So that's how I met Chris and Shannon.
Chris is from Manchester and is a former dancer, although that former title is fairly recent. He used to dance on cruise ships. Shannon is from Toronto and is about as different from me as is possible, but she's awesome. She has a BA in theatre and worked at it for three years before coming here. We went out that night with her friend Seth who lives near London. We went to a whole bunch of rather rediculous places that ranged in seedyness. With all of that it was still fun and I got to know them, which was the whole reason for the exercise.
Of course, now I know them pretty well. I see them all day everyday. I walk to school with Chris in the morning and we all walk home together. We're kinda the three headed monster. The other six people in the program we at least get to leave for the night. Last Thursday we were each going to go somewhere different and we all ended up going to the same place. But they're awesome, so I'm not concerned about it. I'm actually going to the opera tonight with Chris, but Shannon is watching Rugby with a couple other classmates.
I guess this got kinda long, so I'll talk about my classes and classmates later.
Love you!!!
I love the shot of the Eye.:)
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