Today(23 July 2009)did not start for me until about 10:30AM when my alarm went off. I love not having class on Thursday this week. I have only had one really day of class which was Monday. Tuesday was the Globe Theatre day, Wednesday I had a migraine so I didn’t go to class, today (Thursday) we had off because we spent all day at the Globe on Tuesday and there’s no class on Fridays.
I was going to do laundry this morning but I forgot that Thursday morning is when the house cleaning staff does all the laundry for the building so I had to wait until tonight which is why I am still awake at what is 12:15AM for me. Of course, if I don’t do the blog and picture now they won’t get done because tomorrow… well, I’ll save that for the end of this blog.
After I puttered around for most of the morning I met everyone at the Waterloo Train Station and we went to the IMAX theatre to see “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.” The first 12-15 minutes was in 3D which I thought was kind of funny. I won’t give out any spoilers except to say that it was very cool to see certain sights in London that I had seen in my weeks here, like the Millennium Bridge, Tate, Modern, and The Globe. I thought that they handled the movie very well and hung onto the themes and story lines that were important, although I was sad there wasn’t more Quittach. I cried when a certain character died just like when I read it so many years ago. Harry Potter has meant so many things to me since I first read about the Boy Who Lived and he has come to mean so many things to so many people that it’s hard to see the hard times for him. You want him to succeed in everything but just like with the wars we face today there are loses and sacrifices that no one seemed to have thought of at the start, people you thought couldn’t or wouldn’t ever be gone. I think this is why Potter transcends being children’s books and becomes something more.
Enough philosophical ranting… after the movie we took a Tube to Chinatown and had dinner. Well, Echo, Aubrey, Erin, Kelsey, and I had dinner. It was fun to walk around and look at the different restaurants. I think we might go back to try Korean food. I had Hot and Sour Soup. The stuff at home is better but it wasn’t bad. Nothing can be as bad as Rainbow Garden soup. They get everything else so well, it baffles me why they get soup so wrong.
When we got back Erin and I doubled on laundry and shared a machine. She offered to pay for the dryer but I told her I’d be doing my laundry anyway so not to worry about. Then Aubrey came over and we booked our trip to…. *drum roll* … STONEHENGE! I knew I would find someone who would want to go. It’s only £49 for the whole trip whereas if we had taken the train it would have been over £100. Not cool. It’ll be an all day trip to Stonehenge and Bath. Yes, we have already gone to Bath but this will give us more time to see the parts we didn’t before. Aubrey and I really wanted to roam around the city more than we got to before with everyone else. This is going to be awesome. I am so excited. We have to get up early but we can sleep on the bus and it’ll be so worth it.
See you all tomorrow!
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