Today was a wonderfully busy day. I had my first class meeting for Shakespeare. My professor is Deirdre Osbourne. She’s actually from Australia but has now lived in England longer than her home country. We’ll be studying Shakespeare’s Henry V (which I have seen many times when Chris was in it at Clemson University), Romeo and Juliet (which I could care less about because it’s been done to death), The Tempest (which I did in my British Cultural History class last semester), As You Like It (which the class will also see at the Globe on the 21st), and selected sonnets. On top of the Shakespeare we’re also studying Edward II by Christopher Marlowe, The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster, and The Roaring Girl by Thomas Middleton & Thomas Dekker. It should be fun. I’m pretty excited.
After class today I went back to Wigram to get ready for High Tea at Harrods. It was a Tube ride and a short walk from where I was in Westminster. I passed under the Wellington Arch which backs up to the Buckingham Palace. We have been to the palace already but we’ll be going again on the 27th, the first day it is open to the public during the summer.
Anyway, I walked with some other girls and we met the rest of the group at the Hyde Park Corner Tube Station. We got to walk through Hyde Park a little but we were running a tad late so we didn’t get to really enjoy it but I will be going back at some point during my three weeks here.
Harrods was amazing. I had scones, clotted crème, finger sandwiches, and tea. It was filling and incredible and I wish I could have snuck some scones back to Wigram with me… they don’t make then like that at PBD. I mean, the ones at PBD are good but these are better. The rest of the time at Harrods was spent walking from floor to floor. Six floors of shopping. I thought I did pretty well considering my track record with buying things I don’t need on trips like this. I walked away with a new tea-for-one teapot that says “Harrods” on the side and a tin of loose leaf Earl Grey. This is of course on top of the tea I already bought that I don’t have a mug for yet… don’t judge! Oh, the other wonderful thing I did… *drum roll*… I got picture taken with Harry Potter and Hagrid – well, at least the Lego versions of them. Harry was near the Georgian restaurant we ate at with a little Potter display next to him and Hagrid was on the toy floor in the children’s bookstore. They were both quite impressive. I can only imagine how long it took to put them together. You Hagrid took days!
I also went up and down the Egyptian escalators and saw the Diana memorial at the bottom floor. It was a little weird actually. Go to my London photo album to see the photos but it’s basically a picture of her and the guy she was with who also died and then there’s a wine class and this diamond ring he gave her. At least, this is what the American tourists said next to me. Apparently the guy’s family owns Harrods or something like that. Eh. It was ok.
After that I wondered around a bit with Aubrey. We found this place called Pet Kingdom. It’s this giant section devoted to all things for your pets. They even had kitties and puppies there! It reminded of Emily when she was in New Zealand and would visit the animal shelter near where she was staying so I made sure to take some pictures for her. Then it was back to Wigram for a shower and then I went the pictures and wrote this blog. I was going to go into things I noticed about the British versus Americans but I’m too tired for that now. I’ll be sure to write about it tomorrow, though… or at some point.
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