Well, I've missed several days. What has happened in that time...I'll try to remember.
Okay, since my last entry (I had to go back and re-read to see where I left off) I went to the cemetary where William Blake is buried. I don't actually know anything about him other than he was a poet and, I guess, a painter. I went with a girl in my group who didn't want to go alone. It was a pretty cemetary and a pretty day. We ended up getting to Twelfth Night late, however, because we got confused about the time. We had been thinking it was at 2:30 when it was actually 2, the only reason we knew otherwise was because I'd pulled out my ticket and saw the correct time. This was at 1:30 when we still hadn't gotten on the bus that takes approximately 35 minutes to get us in the general area and a 6 min walk to the theater. We somehow got there only 5 minutes late and though we had to wait in the foyer (sp?) for a break in the performance they seated us without any problem. After the performance I went with a group of girls to Primark and bought a pair of jeans because...I need jeans and they were 8 pounds (equating $12), I also bought shoes for 2 pounds ($3). I kinda wish we had Primark in the states, they have good basic clothes for really cheap, plain t-shirts, plain jeans and plain shoes -not very high quality but durable enough for what it is. And still better quality than most things you get in the States for much more than that. Like Down East shirts, they're good staples but the quality is junk unless you're careful and the shirt is about $12. They have the same types of shirts here but so much cheaper and better constructed. I was pretty much exhausted after that so I just did some homework and chilled out.
Friday, we went as a group to Kew gardens, it was quite pretty. It's like a major park with greenhouses, a pagoda and ponds and such. I'd say it was like Buchart but not really. For one, there were a lot less flowers and for another I think it was a lot bigger. I just kept thinking that it would be more suitable for my sister or mom to go there, they probably would have appreciated it more though I wasn't exactly bored myself. After that I went and did some much needed laundering, bought a ticket for a tour of Bath and Stonehenge for the following day and printed my confirmation information in the computer lab at Metrogate while I did my laundry. Then, I went with some girls on my floor to a YSA (Young Single Adult) dance they were having in the cultural hall of Hyde Park's family history center/chapel/church building. Quite fun.
Saturday was the tour to Bath and Stonehenge. We had few occurances that changed plans for us, apparently there was a big accident on the road to Stonehenge so they took us to Bath first (when normally it would be the other way around) and then the windshiel wipers were having issues so they had to pull into a rest stop and fix it which gave us less time in Bath. We went to the Roman Baths (it was included in the tour price) on audio tours which I rushed through so I could get on to other things. Then, Shelby, Martha and I went to the Bath Fashion Museum which actually turned out to be a bit dissappointing. It was smaller than the fashion exhibit at the V&A plus we had to pay. They did have some really great pieces though. I still have flashes of awe when I look at the clothes and realize how small people were back then and how these are not just museum pieces but actual garments people wore and lived in. Except for the newer stuff that maybe a model turned around a catwalk before they got put in the museum. We had time to get a pasty at a shop (I got a chicken and vegetable pasty, very tasty. Like a chicken pot pie only in a really flaky butter filled crust). Unfortunately I'd woken up with a bad sore throat and it didn't go away the whole day, I ended up sleeping a lot on the bus. Stonehenge was cool though it was incredibly cold and windy and I felt like crap. It was about the same size as I had imagined though a lot of people tend to say it's smaller than they imagined. We got home around 6ish and I did homework and went to bed.
This morning I woke up feeling really overheated and miserable so I ended up not going to church and just slept for several hours after making myself some scrambled eggs and toast so I wouldn't be taking ibuprophen on an empty stomach. Lots and lots of sleep. I felt better, my sore throat went away. I think tonight I will take nyquil, I only have one little packet thing though. I worked on memorizing 15 lines of Shakespeare for class tomorrow. I don't know if I'll be able to remember it, fevered mind and all that. Tomorrow we have class and I think I will chill out most of the day unless I can find something to do. I haven't gone to an extra play yet, there's a couple I still want to go to but I don't know that I will find people who want to go too.
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