Sorry I haven't written in a while. Ha, what's exciting after going to Oxford??? Well let me catch you up to present day, Monica is at Oxford and having a good time. She went early Sunday morning, yes early, very early for someone who wanted to sleep in!

But since I last wrote I have been doing homework... and just for laughs more homework. Every two weeks I have to read three novels and a play, but they are all due on the same week so I never do anything but read. I read the first half of the novels the first week, and the second half the following. The novels aren't bad, I actually am reading more interesting novels than at home... though I will be reading The Tempest AGAIN this semester. This makes three semesters in a row... I cannot do it again. I finished Oliver Twist, Moll Flanders and now am working on Wuthering Heights. I'm having a good time though, I enjoy my classes and the discussions. Tuesday is a hard day because I'm in class for 6 hours straight, it wasn't that I was starving by the end, but I had trouble staying awake by the end of it... its all very interesting but 6 hours straight! I'll need to plan my Tuesday better so I am more attentive in class next week. My favorite course is Scriptwriting, the class goes by way too fast. Last week we watched interviews with the cast of Vera Drake and watched the scene where she is arrested. The director did not tell her what was going to happen at the end of the scene, or anyone, so everyone's reactions were genuine. It made me think of Narnia, when Lucy first looks at the land of Narnia and the director made her close her eyes, and when she opened them he started filming and her reactions were genuine. And of course there is a M*A*S*H reference here, when Radar told the OR that Henry had died, but not even he knew what he was going to be saying... those reactions are the best, and I love when a director pulls something like that.

Anyway, Wednesday was interesting, but also annoying. We (flat mates and I) decided to go to The Globe to see The Comedy of Errors. Great, sounds like a good time. They had class until 5pm, I was done at 2pm, so we agreed to meet at the Kingston train station after their class. I went to Kingston and was waiting for them, but they decided to go back to the dorms to drop off their bags. They didn't think to call me and tell me this. They got on at Hampton Wick, and I met them on the train. We got to Waterloo at like 6:30ish... yeah late. They wanted food, so we stopped at McDonalds and Burger King, yes I broke my rule about stopping at an American fast food restaurant. By the time we got to the Globe, it was 7:15ish. Awesome. The show was sold out. We sat by the Thames and tried to figure out what to do, and of course eating was the answer. A guy told us that there is some restaurants about 5 minutes down the Thames. Cool. Um dude, it was 15 minutes! And we (I mean I) walk fast. But we found this pub/restaurant, Studio 60 and I got a brownie ice cream thing... it was good. We sat there for like an hour, probably more just doing some good old flat mate bonding, not that we need it. After that we walked the Thames and saw Big Ben, London Eye and that area all lit up, and it was very nice.

A few nights later we taught Martin how to make a grill cheese sandwich and that was exciting. My flat mates and I have been going insane over grill cheese and tomato soup. It's such an easy meal to make, but if one of us has it, then guaranteed someone else will have it. The British don't have grill cheese though, I would have thought they would- it's basically toast and they love toast.

Oh my flat mates and I are also going to Valenica, Spain for reading week. I mean the girls of course, we are spending a week with Kathleen's friend! So glad all of us speak Spanish...