This past week has been crazy fun. Things here are really starting to come together, and I'm adjusting to the fact that I actually live here now. We've had 2 more sunny days! Well, by sunny I mean you can actually see the sun, that's pretty much as good as it gets here. Also, it has only rained almost every day... oh how I love the rain. I love how everything I touch is always wet or damp- who needs things to be dry?
I saw a play called "39 Steps" this past week. Loved it. Loved it. Hilarious play. It is a parody of the Alfred Hitchcock film, but they put in so many allusions to his other movies. Granted, if you haven't seen those movies, you may not enjoy it as much as I did. This was four person cast, playing multiple roles, and seriously one of the most clever things I have ever seen. See it.
Yesterday I went to see Platform 9 3/4 from the Harry Potter books. Really quite anti-climatic for me. Plus, the London transit system raped my Oyster card balance just to get there. Oh London transit and I are not on speaking terms right now. Anyway, so we went to the Harry Potter thing, which I was excited for- even though I've never read the books and don't really enjoy the movies. Why did I waste my money? Good question my friends. I did this for you. Those of you who I know are Harry Potter freaks. Thank me later. Ok, the Harry Potter thing is not the point. After we visited the platform, and took pictures like big dorks, we went to (drumroll please) The British Library! A-mazing. I kid you not. The best part of my trip thus far. Ok, I'll explain. So in the library they have this exhibit of extremely old writings- novels, manuscripts, bibles, the Magna Carta, sacred texts of all different religions. I saw Beowolf, the manuscript of Alice in Wonderland (Alice Underground), Tess of D'Ubervilles (which by the way was originally entitled Daughter of D'Ubervilles, but Hardy crossed it out and wrote Tess), I saw handwritten notes from Virgina Woolf, Sylvia Plath... ugh.. they were the coolest things I've ever seen. THEN, I saw the Beatles exhibit. I stood there listening to Yesterday while reading the handwritten lyrics of Yesterday, I Wanna Hold Your Hand, songs that hadn't been recorded!! Things were scribbled on the backs of scrap paper and things were crossed out and moved and uh! it was the most amazing thing I've ever seen. Hands down the coolest thing I've seen on this trip. It was just... I don't know how to explain it. Fuck you Disney Land- The British Library: Where dreams come true.
Last night was my Historical Pub Walk. All this means is we went to old pubs that we would never have found on our own. Needless to say, it was awesome. Love the extra four ounces and the higher alcohol content. We went to three pubs, all of which were so different from the pubs we usually go to (which all look basically the same anyway). Then, of course, it was Wednesday night, so we went to the Union. Oh the Union, where I embarrass myself on a weekly basis. This time however, my friend Caroline and I managed to meet three guys who play football (they kept saying soccer for our benefit, even though we tried to tell them we knew it was football) and these nice boys asked us if we wanted to go to a club with them, but first they rounded up some more of their friends, aka the entire team. So there we are walking with this group of gorgeous footballers (ok, so the gorgeous part definitely didn't apply to all of them, but it's my story) about to go to this club- and then we find out that there is an hours queue in front, so we turn around (we were only at the bus stop) and walk back to the Union. Apparently, we "gots to go next week." Highly doubt it will happen, but they were fun guys. Great night. Rough morning.
Oh my trip to Windsor! One of the best little towns on the planet. The castle was so beautiful and very interesting. We were given these little audio tour things that told us everything we could possibly want to know. St. George's Cathedral is one of the most gorgeous buildings I've ever been in. I saw where William Shakespeare lived, and at the castle I witnessed a little changing of the guard- btw, not that interesting. They stare at each other for a half hour.
Unfortunately, I didn't get to meet the Queen or William and Harry. Thus Harry and I haven't made any concrete plans for our future nuptials. I had fish and chips (again) at this cute pub and proceeded to get a little tipsy before the walk to Eton College (where both the princes went to school) then Kate and I stopped at a pub on the way back. Best field trip of my life. Our tour guide, Britt, knows everything about everything. EVERYTHING. She is taking us to Camden and Little Venice this Saturday and I can't wait.
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