Full of Beans - To Have Loads of Energy

So I’ve received some commentary about how I’m not going into enough detail, so since I just got out of class I though I’d write a little about the academia scene here in Londytown.

We have class four days a week right now (Fridays off, eehee!). The semester is broken into two halves, and for the first half I’m taking two classes and for the second half I’ll be taking one class and doing an internship. Right now I'm taking British Economic Policies and Advertising in the UK. For the second half my class is History of British Pop Culture. Our classes are four hours long since we don’t have them for very many weeks but need to squeeze in a semester’s worth of hours, and after a week of class I’m pretty confident that four hours straight of one subject, two days in a row, is some sort of medieval torture device that has been resurrected for our program. British Econ is interesting but kind of a dry subject in general, and our teacher is crazy and runs on three hours of sleep – she has a really hard time understanding why our eyes are all closing between 9am-12pm. Advertising is a little more manageable because it’s from 1pm-5pm, Alex is in my class, and we watch lots and lots of British commercials and discuss them. They’re very different from American commercials, particularly since British people would prefer to be entertained rather than know what it is they’re supposed to buy. See: Cadbury commercial with a gorilla drumming to Phil Collins music. What?
In terms of my internship, I got an offer from a retail clothing/accessories company that I went on an interview for, but I decided to turn it down and try to do something a little different while I’m here. The company seemed cool and definitely had clothing that I would wear from the looks of things, and my interviewer was extremely friendly, but I felt hesitant about the whole thing. Between working at J.Crew and my past internship working with accessories and such, I’ve done a lot in that area and I think I should expand my horizons. Hopefully I actually get another internship and didn’t just throw away the only company in this country that wants me ☺ Keep your fingers crossed?

I’ve been working on absorbing British culture, starting with Reggie and my excursion to the Royal Opera House to see Sleeping Beauty. We had some difficultly locating the venue, and some trouble locating the tube station thereafter, but the actual ballet was pretty awesome! Reggie was very good at interpreting all the gestures that the fairies were making and how they corresponded to the Disney movie… I had no idea what was going on (I was entertained by the costumes alone) so thank god she was there to go through what had happened in between each act. Towards the end there were some other fairytale characters frolicking about for an extra hour or so, but all in all it was a great night. Reggie, Claire, and I went to see Sister Act, the musical last night, which was hilarious and a pretty close interpretation of the movie. Catchy songs and nun-ensembles dripping with sparkles are clearly the recipe for awesomeness.

Okay, dinnertime now… our kitchen smells like it’s been set on fire. Wonderful. Cheers!