Happy October!
As of today, I have been in London for a full month. This is the longest time I've ever been out of my own country.
So, do I still love London as much as I did when I first moved over here? Has the weather gotten to me yet? Am I sick of Shakespeare?
I do still love London. I love it a whole lot. It's easier, now that I've been here for a while, to see the problems that underlie this city and country. But nowhere is perfect, and so I'm still happy to take London's flaws with all it's beauty and culture and richness.
Weather? Not yet. Actually, the weather has been beautiful, especially this past week. It's meant to rain tomorrow, but I don't really mind. I say bring it on- I have my umbrella and we've had an awful lot of sunshine lately anyways.
Am I sick of Billy Shakes? ...A little bit, I admit. You know that you've been reading a lot of Shakespeare and older plays when you can read through King Lear and understand a pretty fair portion of all of the story without the annotations that most editions come with. Word.
Yesterday and today haven't been all that new, to be honest. I've been stressed, there's a lot of work to do, and it's harder to get through a day of classes- I'm a whole lot more tired, all day, and acting takes a whole lot of energy. We're getting there.
Oh yeah, I read King Lear tonight. That play has a whole lot of feelings... Wow. It's an intense tragedy. Some say, apparently, that this is Shakespeare's finest tragedy. I would argue that you can legitimately make that argument if your version of a tragedy is judged by the amount of mean, ill-spirited, evil people and the cruelest ways to drive someone to insanity or death.
We went out to a pub, and everyone was pretty happy chatting with each other, but I didn't feel much like talking. Most of us BADA students have gotten a Shakespeare app on our phones, myself included, that includes all of Shakespeare's works. So, I sat at the pub, wearing Alex's hat and enjoying a ginger ale while I read the play. We were still there when I finished... At least I was surrounded by friends as I sat there gaping at the intensity that is King Lear.
All that aside, it's time for the weekend. It's a welcome one.
Fight on, friends.
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