My weekend

This weekend we had aimed to get some rest. We don't seem to be very good at that, though. Each night when we got home, we were exhausted and our feet hurt from all the walking. We had a good time, as usual.

Thursday, after classes were finished, I matched up with Maike and Andrew. We walked around the area near the college and went from bookstore to bookstore. For our final projects in Theatre, we have to choose a play and do all of the design work. Now, Andrew and I aren't even arty. C'mon now, we're a science major and a comm major. We don't do theatre design. Maike doesn't know anything about theatre, but at least she's artsy! So, we spent a long time searching for play texts, none of us coming back with anything.

Friday I went back out with those two in search of shoes. Amazingly, after over half of a semester in Europe, I have yet to purchase any new tennis shoes. Even after an entire afternoon of searching, again I came up emptyhanded - almost. I did buy a really great new shirt at the H & M on Oxford Street. In the evening I saw Sam Shepard's Buried Child. I really enjoyed it. It was very disturbing onstage, but it was a fantastic production, very effective.

Saturday I went with my roommates to the British Museum. It is very large, but not really all that interesting. There is nothing British about it. All of the artifacts on display were "borrowed" from other countries. It was exciting to see the Rosetta Stone, but that was not enough to keep me entertained for an entire visit to the museum. I was not alone in my sentiments. Maike was ready to leave even before I was.

Sunday morning we went to church, again at Calvary Chapel. I suppose you could call that my church in London. Then, Maike and I headed out on our own. We walked to Harrod's which is a larger department store than I had even imagined could exist. They have rooms for butchers, rooms for tea, rooms for games, rooms for clothes, room for stationary, for shoes, for cooking supplies, for Egyptian goods, and on and on the list goes. We didn't buy anything because it's all way overpriced, but it was still fun to look. After that we went to the Victoria and Albert Museum, which is very cool, and we spent most of our time in the Black British Style exhibit. Since it was Halloween, we figured we ought to celebrate somehow, so watched Harry Potter with the rest of the Drury folk.

It gets dark sooo early here now. By 5:00, it's already almost pitch black. That makes it very hard to sit through my last classes. I feel like they should be over much sooner than they are. Apparently it will soon start getting dark at 3:00 in the afternoon. That's going to be rough.

I'm off now to curl up in bed with a good book and a cup of tea.:)