Yesterday and Today so far!

Wow, yesterday was a day full of adventure. My feet are a little tired.

We started off by having class/reviewing Women of Troy... Then we got a preview of Glenngarry Glenn Ross/Apollo Theatre.

After class we took off and went to the Tower of London! We saw the Bloody Tower(where two princes may have been murdered), the Crown Jewels, and the royal artillery. Then a few of us took off for the British Museum. We went specifically to see the Rosetta Stone and the Parthenon Marbles... it took us forever to FIND the MUSEUM... but once we got there, we found everything immediately! I will definitely be going back, I just could not believe what was right in front of me... I managed to see/recognize one of the Egyptian Scrolls of the Dead. I really want to go back and see the Terra Cotta Soldiers from the Qin Dynasty! It's a special exhibit though so I'd have to go back EARLY and get in line... they only allot 500 admissions a day.

Really loved seeing Glenngarry Glenn Ross! I forgot how wonderful Mamet writes, and these actors really carried it well. I am puzzling over why this production was chosen/what a British audience thinks of this show... it's about salesmen making ends-meet via manipulation... There were so many laughing points, and it also was just wonderfully horrible regarding the truth of the matter/job. As people discussed today in class, it could be of interest to an English audience because it is about economy and that is prevalent to all people... truly I think it is timely, it shows how our focus is on making money for survival, so our focus is not on fixing social injustice or stopping the war in Iraq (the story is set in the 1980s, but so much is common to now...)

After the show we waited outside by the stage door and met Jonathan Pryce/got his picture/autograph. Then Anna and I walked about to try and find Hairspray to purchase tickets... but we walked and walked and couldn't find it. Turns out we were just a block away when we gave up... shoot! We'll go back later and try again.

Today we went to Westminster Abbey and saw the graves of Darwin, Sir Issac Newton, Mary Queen of Scotts, Charles Dickens, and Geoffrey Chaucer! WOWZERS. That's about it so far. I'll upload pictures soon, once I get my camera back-- I had Scottie hold on to it/put it in his bag so I wouldn't get accused of taking illegal pictures inside there, but I haven't run into him since.