Frustrating Morning, but Mother Courage was AMAZING!

Yesterday I didn’t do much because I didn’t go to bed until 5 AM the night before! I made sure I finished one of my long reviews before I went to sleep (friday) so that I didn’t have to worry about submitting it on time (due on Saturday). So when I went to sleep I had the rough draft of my Inherit the Wind review finished and I e-mailed it to Ben so he could proofread it for me.

So naturally I didn’t set an alarm (for Saturday) because we had the whole day off and I thought it would be nice to not have to wake up to an alarm. When I woke up, I looked at the clock and it was 4 PM! I’ve never slept that late in my life. I guess I’m still jetlagged. I got up and finished my Inherit the Wind review, and did a mini-review for The Woman in Black. a lot of us went out for a nice dinner to a place called Prezzo which is right down the block, really convenient. The dinner was great and it was nice to dress up a little since I haven’t at all on this trip. When I came back to the room I watched 2 episodes of Ugly Betty and 2 episodes of Private Practice :P

This morning (12/6) was a bit annoying to say the least. Patsy asked us on Friday if everyone wanted to go for a meal to talk about the shows and whatnot either before or after the show today (Sunday). We decided then that we would do lunch at 1 PM. APPARENTLY the lunch was moved to 12, but the e-mail wasn’t sent out until 9ish this morning. I didn’t have my alarm set until 11:30 because I anticipated going to lunch at 1!! Faryn and I get a knock on the door at 11:25 that everyone is leaving at 11:30. I was so pissed off that nobody let us know earlier.

I figured Steve might not know that the time was changed wither, so Faryn went upstairs to see if they were up while I was getting ready, but him, Randy, Emily, and Amy left without us. To say the least I was pissed off by this whole situation, and of coarse Faryn and I were the only ones out of the loop, and 20 minutes late. I still don’t understand why the lunch was moved to 12 when the show didn’t start until 2:30! Whatever, I could go on and on about this, but there is no point venting here.

Anyway, we say Mother Courage and her Children, which starred Fiona Shaw who is Aunt Petunia in Harry Potter. Patsy says she’s one of the biggest stage stars in London. The show was AMAZING! I loved it so much. The special effects as well as the music were great, and Fiona Shaw was spectacular. I’m probably going to write a review about it, but haven’t decided if I’m going to do a long one or a short one.

That’s another thing! Patsy lessened our work load! Now we only have to do THREE long reviews instead of 4 AND she got rid of the deadlines! I’m probably going to write things right after the shows anyway, but this way I don’t have to stress about getting them in on time.

That’s pretty much it for now. I’m in my room just killing time, and Faryn is out with some of her friends that are here on term abroad. I’m still pissed about this morning though. But the show definitely cheered me up!

Impressionist Paintings and Our Crazy Running Late Fiasco!

I actually got some sleep last night. I think I’m getting used to these shitty beds! Wooh!

Today (12/3) at 1 we went to the National Gallery in Trafalgar Square which had a lot of famous paintings including Monet and Van Gogh!! The impressionists are some of my favorites, it was so great to see some of the paintings I’ve been familiar with for so long and actually see them up close. The textures, for example, were so great! The museum had a lot of medieval and renaissance paintings as well, but they were mostly of Jesus and Mary so it was getting a little redundant if you catch my drift.

Afterwards we went around the corner to the National Portrait Gallery which was mostly photographs from today. There were pictures of a lot of English celebrities, like Keira Knightly, Kate Moss, and Twiggy which was cool to see. There were some disturbing pictures too, like a woman with a stab wound in Rwanda that I couldn’t look at for too long because it was just so sad. The woman in the picture was crying and it make me really upset :( we had the rest of the afternoon off, so the lot of us went back to the room until the show that night. We also stopped in some church between the museums, but I really can’t remember the significance to be honest! Hehe. It was pretty boring compared to the others.

So being the irresponsible group that I guess we are, Myself, Faryn, Steve, Randy, Emily, Amy, and Kamara as well, we were running late getting to Covent Garden where the Woman in Black was showing at the Fortune Theater. We got off the train around 7:45, which was the time we were supposed to be at the theater! Then after running around like maniacs not knowing where this theater was, we finally made it. But we were late and the show had already started. Since the show already started Patsy left our tickets at the box-office for us, which wouldn’t seem like a big deal right?

So we get to the box-office and I tell them who we are and they say they have our tickets. The man counts the tickets and there are only 6 tickets although there are 7 of us!! We were like shit what the hell do we do!? Steve said he would wait out here until things got figured out (despite the fact that we didn’t know if things would get figured out).

The rest of us wait until we are aloud in the theater which takes a good 10-15 minutes. Luckily one of the ushers filled us in on what we missed before showing us our seats. We finally sit down and Patsy immediately notices that Steve is missing. Randy tells her what happens and she immediately gets out of her seat! Next thing we know she’s back and said she got it figured out, thankfully. Apparently the theater didn’t print out the last ticket and she didn’t notice because she kept it in a stack. Nevertheless, Patsy called Steve, and he he came into the show during intermission.

Despite the fiasco, the play was okay. I enjoyed it and I was scared at times, but it wasn’t my favorite. We walked around afterwards because none of us had really eaten anything, and we ended up walking around forever because the restaurants close so early here. Finally we find a really good Italian restaurant. We played never have I ever and it was a cute, bonding experience. we took the bus back instead of the tube for the first time because the tube stops running after 12. Overall it was a good day, which was definitely what I needed after the previous day. Onward to shopping tomorrow!!