My bonnie lies over the ocean/my bonnie lies over the sea...
Tonight we saw our first theatrical production in London (http://www.oldvictheatre.com/whatson.php?id=37) and it was AMAZING!! It was a panto (that's pantomime for all you kids at home) and it was hysterical! Stephen Fry took topical humor and local issues and turned the age old story of Cinderella on its head. I want to write so much more but I am wiped from the day which consisted of a walking tour around to local cheap shopping and the king's cross and st.pancras train stations, an introduction to Shakespeare's sonnets, an introduction to our academic responsibilities and such, an introduction to our Alexander teachers and what to expect with those sessions AND last but not least Cinderella. I can't wait to start class. :)
oh, one more thing before I go.. today Richard talked about one of my biggest fears: being completely alone. Here we (I) have to face the fact that there is no one here but a few friends. No family (at least not in my case). That's a scary thought. We have a cultural excursion every Tuesday and THIS Tuesday we're going to have to draw places out of a hat and go solo. The more I think about it the more okay with it I become. One of the reasons I wanted to come so badly was to test myself. More and more I find things within myself that are unsatisfactory. There are certain ways I deal with things that seem to rub people the wrong way and part of that is my problem but more and more I realize that I also have to learn to let me be me. I can't always apologize for myself if I feel in my heart that I'm right. Then again I'm trying to learn to reign certain impulses in. In the end I think it's being happy with yourself, whoever that might be.
Okay that's enough for tonight... right now I'm in a good place... AND just in case you're wondering, here's my soundtrack:
Explosions in the Sky
Signal Hill
Iron & Wine
Secondhand Serenade
Alicia Keys
What a Great Audience (haha not just a shameless plug for Chris, I promise- I really like them)
Dashboard Confessional (yeah I dunno they chill me out)
It varies but for the most part this is what I'm listening to. It's nice to break from showtunes once in a while. That is my soundtrack, but i'll leave you with my mantra lol. In the words of Alicia Keys:
I don't worry 'cause
Everything's going to be alright
oh, one more thing before I go.. today Richard talked about one of my biggest fears: being completely alone. Here we (I) have to face the fact that there is no one here but a few friends. No family (at least not in my case). That's a scary thought. We have a cultural excursion every Tuesday and THIS Tuesday we're going to have to draw places out of a hat and go solo. The more I think about it the more okay with it I become. One of the reasons I wanted to come so badly was to test myself. More and more I find things within myself that are unsatisfactory. There are certain ways I deal with things that seem to rub people the wrong way and part of that is my problem but more and more I realize that I also have to learn to let me be me. I can't always apologize for myself if I feel in my heart that I'm right. Then again I'm trying to learn to reign certain impulses in. In the end I think it's being happy with yourself, whoever that might be.
Okay that's enough for tonight... right now I'm in a good place... AND just in case you're wondering, here's my soundtrack:
Explosions in the Sky
Signal Hill
Iron & Wine
Secondhand Serenade
Alicia Keys
What a Great Audience (haha not just a shameless plug for Chris, I promise- I really like them)
Dashboard Confessional (yeah I dunno they chill me out)
It varies but for the most part this is what I'm listening to. It's nice to break from showtunes once in a while. That is my soundtrack, but i'll leave you with my mantra lol. In the words of Alicia Keys:
I don't worry 'cause
Everything's going to be alright