An Amazing Weekend

Four day weekends are back! Well, for most people anyways because they have finished their practicums. But I have decided to go a few extra times and so that is what I did Friday. It was the last day of their term and so the day was really chill and I spent most of it painting rainforest tribal symbols on faces, which was really fun. After practicum Jordan, Amanda, Kinsey, Natalie and I had a lovely night planned. We found a deal online where we could get dinner at a swanky restaurant and tickets to Spring Awakening! This was the first play we saw with our theater class, but since then it has moved to a bigger theater and is getting lots of publicity so I was so excited to see it again. It was INCREDIBLE! It was probably better than the first time I saw it and it was really really good then. After the show we walked over to Picadelly Circus, my new favorite place, to get Cinabon to take back to the flats. This was a great way to start my weekend!

Saturday was pretty boring. I did some work in the morning, but then met up with Jordan at Big Ben in the afternoon. We're trying to get pictures of Big Ben at every hour, on the hour so we can then make them into a clock (we're so artsy!). We met at 4, got that, and then wandered around waiting for 5. It was a gorgeous day and it was fun to walk around Parliment and down Whitehall. We even stopped at 10 Downing Street to say Hey! to Gorden Brown. Sunday was also pretty boring, I didn't actually ever leave the flats because it looked like rain, but that's London for ya.

Monday was a looooong day, but a really really great one. We had planned on going to Parliment, but they are in recess for Easter, so instead a group of us went to hang out in St. James park. It was so nice to chill and relax and breath in the fresh air. This was also necessary because a few of us (Megan, Casey, Amanda, Jordan, Bo and I) had a long night in store. We really wanted to watch UNC in the NCAA finals and there is a sports bar here in London that shows the games. So after seminar, a quick dinner, and a play (Dancing at Lughnasa; I really liked it and the theater was kind of cool), we headed over to Sports Cafe for the game. It started at 2:20 a.m. and finished around 5, and we loved every minute of it. It was so much fun to hang out with other Carolina fans (luckily no Michagen fans were present) and watch the same game I'm sure most of you were watching. Although we haven't exactly slept since then and will probably crash later today, it was all worth it to get to sing the Carolina fight song (Casey taught it to me) on a bus in London.