But, to continue with my thoughts, travels, etc I am going to attempt to summarize/share everything I have done in the last few weeks without boring everyone. I have also been trying to do my best to write down things in my personal journal so as to remember what I have done (because it is A LOT!)
The first few days we were here I had more reading than I have had in any of my classes at Dickinson, and as much as we all dreaded sitting in our rooms night after night staring at PDFs on a computer screen I realize that in order to truly appreciate this city and all it has to offer I need to learn the history, the variety of cultures, and its roots to understand what a magnificent metropolis I am living in. Now that I feel like I have the basics down, and am beginning to feel more comfortable with the surrounding area I safely can board the tube and travel it wherever my little heart desires. I also am beginning to practice for cooking on my own for once I get to Norwich (okay, my friend Patsy is practicing cooking and I clean up afterwards, but it's a step).
Since it has been quite some time since my last blog post I am going to try and list some of my highlights:
-National Theater
~Watch this Space: an amazing outdoor dance/theater area for free!
~Backstage tour of EVERYTHING! (it employs approximately 860 people--maybe I'll become one of them someday...)
-Southbank
~Nothing in particular, but there are lots of cool street performers
~Oh and I finally rode the carousel!!!
-Regents and St. James Parks
~Absolutely beautiful (no pictures yet, but they're coming...)
-Stonehenge
~After my 4th grade P.A.C.E. project it was thrilling to finally see it in person
-Bath
~Although Bath was designed to be a tourist city I think it was my favorite place. I wandered around by myself for hours finding random alleys and small empty parks all over the area. During my wandering a came across a Catholic church so went into pray. I have been to a lot of churches since I have been here, but most of them have had monuments, shrines, etc. Not this one though. It was one of the most beautiful churches I have ever been to. I sat there for an extended period of time thinking about how lucky I am to be in such an amazing place and to have this opportunity.
-St. Paul's Cathedral
~The interior is absolutely breathtaking. Too incredible for words (and sadly unable to be photographed)
~I also climbed to the top of the dome and had THE MOST AMAZING view of the city!
-Buckingham Palace
~I went at night when no one else was there and it was all lit up, and sadly I did not have my camera with me, so I have no evidence however I found a photo online that I hope allows you to see how super exciting it was!
-Victoria and Alberts Museum
~The exhibits were amazing, I probably will go into more detail about this particular museum when I return possible tomorrow
So, those were just a few of the things I've done. I promise to try and keep up with this more regularly. Look forward to thoughts from my journal on dance, art, and other random things from my mind. In the meantime I have put up ALL of my photos that I've uploaded so far on photobucket. Click here: http://s848.photobucket.com/albums/ab42/apower13/ to see them and I will try and update them as regularly as I can (hopefully more than this blog)
Until then..
xo.
-A.
