Saturday, July 13, 2013

London Day 17

Our first night in Stratford wasn’t excessively exciting. It was fun to go out to a couple bars with Kaitlyn, Lorin, and Andrew. I have a few pictures from then that you can see. I also made a video, but Facebook was being slow about uploading it. Probably will have to wait till I get back to the states and transfer it over to the desktop.






Yesterday we had class outside by the Avon. It was really nice to watch duckies and such. Swans really are mean. One was terrorizing the other winged creatures. We visited Shakespeare’s Birthplace, which was really interesting. Though, the start of it was kind of…Well, Kaitlyn said it best by comparing it to a Disney attraction tour with the way the videos were staged. After that I went out to lunch with Katie, Kaitlyn, and Lorin. It was really good and I was kind of happy to have a salad. I’m somewhat afraid to step on a scale once I’m back in the states. Geh… We then went to New Place/Nash’s House, which was where Shakespeare lived with his family. That was great too. After that we came back and waited till it was 5pm to go out to dinner. After the dinner we then went and saw the play Titus Andronicus.





















So…you want to know about the play? It was GREAT. It was very intriguing. I was kind of worried because I’m relatively squeamish when it comes to blood and gore and whatnot, but it was actually quite comedic. In a dark way. It was kind of unexpected. There were liberties taken in the play that were good. They swapped around verses and their transitions were great. Certain scenes were REALLY something. The ending was…omg…that ending…so dark…SO GOOD. It isn’t the kind of play I just want to write my opinion out in words on. There is just so much I would love to tell people about, so just feel free to ask me about it when I am back in the states and I’m not exhausted from being almost at the end of the trip and having done a presentation today.

Right, so I did my Shakespeare presentation today. We will be seeing As You Like It tonight. We have had free time for quite the amount of time today. No more official blog entries to do, which is nice. I will have to start working on a review of either Titus or the one tonight, but we’ll see after tonight.


Sorry my blogs have gotten more and more boring over time. I’m just so tired at this point and everything is just kind of coming to a close. I don’t feel much time to actually write out fun and humorous posts. Anyway, I will see if I can update tomorrow. It’ll be crazy since we go to a Heathrow hotel tomorrow before we fly out Monday morning.

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