Monday 2/25- Class with Mark and Andrew, Lunch, then we went to Trafalgar Square to the National Gallery, one of my favorite places in London. We went and looked at paintings by Hogarth and Turner that dealt with London identity.
Turner
I think I love the National Gallery so much because it is so unique to London. To be able to walk into a building, free of charge and just go sit and look at Monet and Van Gogh is amazing to me. I've done it several times since being here and I'd say it's probably one of my favorite moments of living here.
Tale of Genji Chapter 19
Tuesday 2/26- With Andrew we went to the Foundling Hospital, an orphanage school of sorts. Then we went to the British Museum to see the Elgin Marbles again. After that Kristyn and I went up and looked at the Asian Art we hadn't gotten to last time we were there and I saw a portion of the Tale of Genji, a story that I had studied to great extent in my art history course last semester. It was amazing to see it after studying it for so long.
In the Beginning was the End
That night we went and saw a strange "sight specific" promenade show called In the Beginning was the End. It was bizarre but very intriguing,
I can't really describe it in a blog post.
Wednesday 2/27- We had a visit from the Program director in Chicago and a dinner buffet with her in the back classroom which was nice.
Mmm yummy!
Thursday- Before class I had extra time to spare and I went to Chipotle which was delicious, walked over my bridge and went to the National Gallery. That night we went and saw a production of Hamlet at the ruins of the historic Rose theatre. It was pretty weird to be in the foundations of a bank building freezing to death watching Hamlet- but it was awesome!
Hamlet at The Rose
Friday- I went to see Port at the National Theatre- it was for my independent play- I really enjoyed it!
Port at The National Theatre
SO... that's it for week five, because on Saturday I went to Windsor, Stonehenge and Bath! If you missed the video check it out here:
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