Women of Troy

Today was our first Saturday here at Regent's College-- to our disappointment we found that the Refectory doesn't open for breakfast until 9:00am-- so we delayed class for a half-hour so we could all satisfy our hunger (so far I've enjoyed french toast, a cinnamon roll, and bacon--so good)!

During class we discussed Lear and evaluated our experiences so far with British people. After class I took a twenty minute nap-- much needed!

At 12:30pm we ate at the Refectory again-- had some risotto and vegetables.

At 1pm we left Regent's for The National Theatre (popularly called the ''Nat-sh'' by locals) and saw a matinee performance of Women of Troy a play of Euripides. I felt literally shell-shocked after the performance, like I had witnessed the horror prisoners of war experience.

Before the show Rachel, Anna, Matt and myself walked around outside and found a skate park where surprisingly there were people OLDER than us skating, rather than tweens and teens in America.

A group of seven of us walked around, we found Covenant Garden, very awesome place with little shops, and we saw a limbo dancer. On our way to dinner we lost one of our group, but she managed to meet up with us later there-- *whew*.

We ate dinner at The Globe-- I ordered fish and chips and had lemonade to drink. Very wonderful. Totalled about £9.

After dinner we tried to go to a comedy club called ''The Chuckle Club'' but it was not yet open because people are still away for *the holidays*. We did find the location though... it was at the London School of Science and something else.
So we decided to walk about and find another club/pub place. We found a place called *Sway* which had a comedy club, but they were asking for £16, we talked them down to £10, but still, 5 of the 9 of us thought it was too expensive so we walked about and found a nice place to drink warm beverages/have dessert outside in Covenant Garden/listen to a guy play his guitar...

Anyway, now it's after 10pm and time for journaling/reviewing/and bed! We have an early start in the morning, we're touring Canterbury, Bath, and Leeds. I'll keep you posted as much as possible!