Today we had our first Shakespeare class. It was rather good. The professor, Jean, is amazing. Really funny, she has us laughing for the whole two hours. After class we had a Programme meeting, which are every Monday at noon. We went over our schedule for the week and theatre tickets were handed out. Wednesday we go to the Globe to see The Merry Wives of Windsor and Thursday we see Turandot, the last of Bretch's plays, never performed in his lifetime. We dont lik...

so, its been a while. so sorry. this last week in a nutshell: Tuesday: we had academic orientation at the AHA Centre where we got to meet our professors (well, most of them at least, two couldn't make it) and hear them talk about why we should take their class. I am taking four classes: Britain Today, the required class for everyone. It's labeled as an IPE class (international political economy) and we will be looking mostly at British Political History; Shak...

We are offically moved into our house! Our host family, the Nixsons, are wonderful. We were welcomed very warmly by the whole family right at the front door! John and Anne are the parents, John is a social worker and Anne teaches at a vocational college. Charley (Charlotte) is 16 and in 11th grade. Jessie (Jessica) is nearly 11 and is in 5th grade ( i think- they do it a bit differently here). There is a third daughter, Sophie- she is 21, done with school and li...

Before I begin updating again, I must make an apology. Apparently I made some spelling typos in my last post that my mother was so kind (and quick) to point out to me. Now, I know that being in college means that I should know how to spell by now, but I would also like to point out that I was jet-lagged and using a foregin keyboard. So I beg your forgiveness and hope you will keep reading. That said and done, read on about the adventure we had last night after w...

Hello all!! well, we have offically had our first day in London! Megs and I flew out of SLC to Chicago and then after 3 hours sitting in O'hare, we took off for London, only to sit another hour in the plane because of the nasty rain Chicago was having. It was a bit of a bumpy ride, but we got here safe and sound. We spent two hours in the airport going through immigration and customs and such. after we were totally through we took the tube to our hotel, where...