Week 2

Day 12: We will actually update more often from now on. We've had a busy week...


So...we got settled into our routine a little this week:

Monday-Class 11-1, 3-8
Tuesday-Class 11-12, 3-4
Wednesday-Class 2-5
Thursday thru Sunday-Free for internship work and fun!

We are both just barely started in our internships and really put in the full 20 hours/week starting this week. More on that later this week.

After our first class sessions this week, it looks like we have more work ahead of us than we thought. Books to read, papers to write, presentations to give, and (cue dramatic music and nostalgic images of B.F.A. Review)...a portfolio to create...but in general, we should learn a ton about British culture by study and actual interaction in the theatre and out. We mentioned the Fringe Theatre class show in the last post. Well, we have found an audition space and have well over 75-100 responses from excited auditionees all over the world. Looks like it's actually going to happen! We'll keep you updated.

The highlight of the week was Friday's field trip to Bath and Stonehenge! The most important thing to note about this day was that the weather was absolutely miserable. It was a thick, misty rain that wasn't really rain, windy, and freezing....yuck! But we still had a great time. 200 students from CAPA on 4 coaches invading some ancient rocks with 200 umbrellas and 200 less-than-sunny dispostions! Our 45 minute stop at Stonehenge quickly turned into a 15 minute stop as students ran back to the dry coach after a few quick pictures. The current structure is not that impressive--roped off from the tourists who have chipped away at it for years and worn down by weather and time--but you could just feel the history. It floored us to think just how old it was and how amazing its construction was. (Even if it was aliens!)

Then on to Bath--a very old Roman city with a natural hot spring under it. We toured the ruins of the original Roman baths and walked the hyper modern streets lined with pubs and shops (everything from Jane Austen's works on sale to GAP). We had our first fish and chips...simply WONDERFUL...and tasted the local water from the spring...supposed to have medicinal effects but tasted like dirty pennies...Sara is going to upload some pictures later this week! Back on the coach and back to the city!

We also saw two more West End shows! Wicked and The Lion King. They were brilliant, but both used full British accents which was a little odd. We had dead center floor seats for student price at both shows (be jealous!) and can't wait to see more!

This weekend was purely chilling. Blake checked out a few local markets and will be returning when he has a little more time. Sara took a day trip to Oxford which she will post about sometime soon. We'll stop babbling now...lots of reading to do for class...but now that Blake has the password to this blog and we need to kill time between classes each day, expect more postings (AND PICTURES!)

Cheers!