LA FEE VERTE!!!! and ORLANDO BLOOM! <3
DAY 5...
Hmmm where to start…I shall start with a teaser and not tell about it till the end! HAHA lol
Well in less than 10min apart I got to see Lord of the Rings the musical…walked down like 2 blocks past another theatre and saw ORLANDO BLOOM!!!! :-D!
Sooooo today’s excitement began with getting up and meeting my class, which we headed on the tube to Southwark again (oh and I learned it pronounced Suh-th-ick). We waited a little while and got to go get some star bucks and got to go into the Globe’s gift shop, where I got a postcard and the RING I WANTED!! It’s a sterling silver replica of an ACTUAL ring that they found while excavating the Rose theatre!!! I love it! It says on it in Old French “Pences Pour Moye Dv” or translated it means “think of me, god willing.” Then we got to have a small tour with a guide! He took us up to the 2nd level of the Globe theatre and told us all about the structure, and how it’s the only building in London to have a authentic thatch roof, because its banned. We learned A LOT of neat things about Shakespeare, the Globe, and the area! After showing us that he took us to an area that was the “globe” until it was built…it was pretty much this small hole in the wall theatre! I couldn’t believe it! Lol He was an awesome tour guide person and taught us soooo much, I just hope I can remember everything he said!! I learned that in at the globe they have about 6 weeks to rehearse the show, and don’t do it much on stage, cause everyday there are tours!! So they do it elsewhere… in Shakespeare’s time guess how long they’d have to rehearse…? Was your answer 3 hours? Cause that’s how long they got!!! They’d get a scroll with just their line on it and their only cues were 3 words previous, about 3 days before…they’d learn it and the day of performance have from 10-1 to rehearse, have lunch and do the show by three! that’s 3 hours total for staging fight scenes, dance sequences, staging…and if you think about it the average Shakespeare play lasts about 3hrs time! To me that’s INSANE!!!! Just think about it…you don’t know what happens or is said until you hear the last 3 words as ur cue! INSANE, and they didn’t give stage directions! So literally you would have to listen for what the person is saying like “why are you crying” and before your line act the part! DANNNNNG! Lol We even did a fun thing like that! I and 3 others volunteered to get up and try it! It was SOOOO hard cause u were focusing on finding the last three words you would ignore the rest of the lines and not know whats goin on! It was funny! But I have NO idea how they’d do it…and whats more is that they’d never perform the same show within a week! So they’d have to memorize 12 or so different shows at one time!!! INSANE! Think about it!
We learned how “roles” or “parts” came along! When u had a scroll with your lines on it, It was not the whole play written, just a portion…a part…YOUR PART! Lol and when you have ur part the scroll is rolled up…it is your ROLE! Play on words but that’s where they derived from! Also Romeo and Juliet was not written for the globe…its known because in the play the famous balcony scene didn’t exist… for ex. “But soft! What light through yonder window breaks? It is the East, and Juliet is the sun!” It is talking about Romeo seeing juliet…where you might ask…yonder WINDOW! NOT BALCONY!!! Haha the FAMOUS…WINDOW SCENE!!! Lol haha there were more cool things but that’s as much as I can remember! So after the tour stuff me and a few of my theatre mates went to have lunch at a Greek restaurant. I got a greek salad and a sprite. The greek salad wasn’t what I expected tho…it had no salad lettuce! It was cucumbers, tomatoes, onions, a few green olives (which I gave away), this AMAZING oil dressing and topped with a nice triangle of feta cheese! It was DELICIOUS! And filling too! So after goofing around there we decided to wander the area cause we still had about an hour! So we walked and found the spot where the ACTUAL Globe used to stand! That was neat, and its odd how apartments are there now! Weird…but it happens…we kept walking and found this place called the VINEOPOLIS City of Wine. It was this museum on wines and different drinks, how they originated, and different countries and stuff! It was neat so we ran through real fast and decided to come back later to actually do some wine testing and try absinthe!! Yeah so we headed back and found the group. Then we went on a walking tour with my teacher around Southwark. We saw around where the Hope Theatre used to be, the rose, and the globe. We looked at the remains of Winchester Palace, the Tate Modern Museum, The Golden Hinde (a 16th centuary ship), The Southwark Cathedral, The Clink (prison!) and the London bridge…the funny thing about that bridge is it gets confused with the more elaborate looking bridge that everyone knows London from which is actually called the TOWER bridge, the London bridge is very plain and boring! Lol but yeah! But, when we finished our tour we headed back to Vineopolis to take the tour and wine testing exhibits…We got to try 5 wines of our choice from a TON of countries, the ones I picked were from Argentina, France, Portugal, and Israel! My favorite was the one from Israel called Moscato Di Carmel, or for short Carmel! It was sooo sweet and tasty! I had 2 of that one…I asked for all the sweetest ones and my fav was Carmel, then one from Argentina called Finca El Retrio, it was also quite sweet! We also got to try a Bombay Sapphire Experience, which was a choice of 3 cocktails, I had the sweetest the Summer Sapphire, which was delicious it tasted of kiwi and apple juice…ish! Lol it was quite sweet. The topper of the whole tour was the tasting of AMSINTHE! “La Fée Verte” or the green fairy!! It’s a hallucinogenic alcohol that has been banned from the US since 1912!!! So yeah I tried a small sample of the Czech and the Bohemian styles. The Bohemian was defiantly the better of the 2 tastes…the Czech was CRAZY!!! Lol the bohemian tasted like a semi-sweet black licorice! It is a drink that is PREPAIRED…taking it straight from the bottle is NASTY! The guy let us try barely a sip of what it taste like if you didn’t prepare it…lets just say I thought the Czech was going to burn through my mouth and the bohemian was just SOOOO strong! Yuck…but we learned the 2 ways to prepare, either burning a spoon of sugar and caramelizing it then pouring water over it and mixing it all into about 1 ½ inches of the liquor. The other way is to pour water over a cube of sugar to melt it almost and mix. It was a cool learning experience, but I didn’t like the taste…after that we went to the bottle buying section. They guys got absinthe, and I got a bottle of Carmel which was only like 6LBS! But I’m saving that for a special occasion…don’t know what yet…but something! Mmm can’t wait! So after that we headed back to our dorms to drop stuff off, then cought the tube again to go to the theatre...at the stop we had to wait like 3 min till the next train, and i look across the tracks and on the other side are these 2 very handsome european men looking at me...so i did a look, look away, look...then the one winked right before the trin drove by...they got on the train still looking at me as im waiting on the platform outside, and as the train takes away both of them smile at me and the one noded his head (like a whats up nod) lol so i smiled back, and then they were gone...funny and made my self esteem go up! YEAH! lol and i thought i looked TERRIBLE today! woot...its prolly just the DAMN cleavage! haha but yeah so we took the tub and then went to the Lord of the Rings theatre to see if we could get discounted student tickets for the show and we did! We got like 6 rows up on the center of the grand circle! In this theatre there was the stalls or orchestra, the grand circle, the upper circle, and the balcony!!! It was HUGE! The tickets we got were normally 60LBS!!! YEAH we were happy! Lol soo nice theatres in London you can actually bring drinks in, they sell it like vendors too! Also on broadway or in America you’d get a program/playbill and then can buy a souvenir program…well in London you have to buy a program or souvenir program! Nothings included! Yeah that was kinda sad so I got the program which was real nice (although I have souvenir programs for most of the shows I’ve gone to see in the past :-/ oh well what can u do) So we saw the show which had AMAZING technical effects but bad storyline and acting really…idk Most of the cast was the ORIGIONAL cast which was REAL COOL but it still wasn’t that good…the singing was Fabulous…but not much to the songs…it was like Flashy, but hollow…I loved the technical spider it was HUGE and walked right out on stage, I loved the flying system effects, the lighting was AMAZING, oh and the springs on the ORCS feet were neat, cause they did like awesome flips and stuff…but they show itself was putting EVERYONE around me to sleep…it was quite amusing actually! Ahha so after the show was over as we were headed back to the tube station we saw like a mob of screaming girls outside a theatre, when we got closer we realize the theatre was for the play In Celebrate, which ORLANDO BLOOM is currently in!!! So once this clicked we RAN over and got a GREAT glimpse of him!!! I was only like 5 feet away if that!!! I tried taking pictures but my camera’s gay and I only got one and its dark and only of like the side of his face…but still I was next to him!!! And let me tell you…SO MUCH HOTTER IN PERSON!!! Oh yes! Lol so after he drove away with his body guards lol we headed on the tube all giddy and came back, where I made a sandwich…and here I am!
AMAZING DAY!!!
WORD OF THE DAY: Absinthe -an illegal drink in the US! Hehehe
OOO and just like they drive on the left side of the road, they walk on the left side of the sidewalk so “stay to the left!” lol random fact of the day! J
I miss my London mates! They had to go on duty this week till about Sunday I believe :-/ miss those crazy’s!! lol
Tomorrow’s plans are regular classes at 10 and 2, then later tomorrow night we’re seeing the modern play “Kean.” I don’t know much about it, but it seems to be quite interesting! So that’s the game plan! O and I need to do laundry…but don’t have time! Lol
This weekend it looks like we’re planning the Paris/Rome trip for next weekend, and this weekend maybe Scotland! Tues we got tickets to see Spamalot! Woot!
YEPYEP soooooo much excitement….oh and I got to see St. Paul’s, not inside yet, but the outside…and all I could think of was “to kill outside St. Paul’s, requires a lot of BALLS!” lol -J&H lol loved that show! Haha yepyep! <3
Well hope all is well miss and LOVE YoU!
~*HeLeNe*~
Hmmm where to start…I shall start with a teaser and not tell about it till the end! HAHA lol
Well in less than 10min apart I got to see Lord of the Rings the musical…walked down like 2 blocks past another theatre and saw ORLANDO BLOOM!!!! :-D!
Sooooo today’s excitement began with getting up and meeting my class, which we headed on the tube to Southwark again (oh and I learned it pronounced Suh-th-ick). We waited a little while and got to go get some star bucks and got to go into the Globe’s gift shop, where I got a postcard and the RING I WANTED!! It’s a sterling silver replica of an ACTUAL ring that they found while excavating the Rose theatre!!! I love it! It says on it in Old French “Pences Pour Moye Dv” or translated it means “think of me, god willing.” Then we got to have a small tour with a guide! He took us up to the 2nd level of the Globe theatre and told us all about the structure, and how it’s the only building in London to have a authentic thatch roof, because its banned. We learned A LOT of neat things about Shakespeare, the Globe, and the area! After showing us that he took us to an area that was the “globe” until it was built…it was pretty much this small hole in the wall theatre! I couldn’t believe it! Lol He was an awesome tour guide person and taught us soooo much, I just hope I can remember everything he said!! I learned that in at the globe they have about 6 weeks to rehearse the show, and don’t do it much on stage, cause everyday there are tours!! So they do it elsewhere… in Shakespeare’s time guess how long they’d have to rehearse…? Was your answer 3 hours? Cause that’s how long they got!!! They’d get a scroll with just their line on it and their only cues were 3 words previous, about 3 days before…they’d learn it and the day of performance have from 10-1 to rehearse, have lunch and do the show by three! that’s 3 hours total for staging fight scenes, dance sequences, staging…and if you think about it the average Shakespeare play lasts about 3hrs time! To me that’s INSANE!!!! Just think about it…you don’t know what happens or is said until you hear the last 3 words as ur cue! INSANE, and they didn’t give stage directions! So literally you would have to listen for what the person is saying like “why are you crying” and before your line act the part! DANNNNNG! Lol We even did a fun thing like that! I and 3 others volunteered to get up and try it! It was SOOOO hard cause u were focusing on finding the last three words you would ignore the rest of the lines and not know whats goin on! It was funny! But I have NO idea how they’d do it…and whats more is that they’d never perform the same show within a week! So they’d have to memorize 12 or so different shows at one time!!! INSANE! Think about it!
We learned how “roles” or “parts” came along! When u had a scroll with your lines on it, It was not the whole play written, just a portion…a part…YOUR PART! Lol and when you have ur part the scroll is rolled up…it is your ROLE! Play on words but that’s where they derived from! Also Romeo and Juliet was not written for the globe…its known because in the play the famous balcony scene didn’t exist… for ex. “But soft! What light through yonder window breaks? It is the East, and Juliet is the sun!” It is talking about Romeo seeing juliet…where you might ask…yonder WINDOW! NOT BALCONY!!! Haha the FAMOUS…WINDOW SCENE!!! Lol haha there were more cool things but that’s as much as I can remember! So after the tour stuff me and a few of my theatre mates went to have lunch at a Greek restaurant. I got a greek salad and a sprite. The greek salad wasn’t what I expected tho…it had no salad lettuce! It was cucumbers, tomatoes, onions, a few green olives (which I gave away), this AMAZING oil dressing and topped with a nice triangle of feta cheese! It was DELICIOUS! And filling too! So after goofing around there we decided to wander the area cause we still had about an hour! So we walked and found the spot where the ACTUAL Globe used to stand! That was neat, and its odd how apartments are there now! Weird…but it happens…we kept walking and found this place called the VINEOPOLIS City of Wine. It was this museum on wines and different drinks, how they originated, and different countries and stuff! It was neat so we ran through real fast and decided to come back later to actually do some wine testing and try absinthe!! Yeah so we headed back and found the group. Then we went on a walking tour with my teacher around Southwark. We saw around where the Hope Theatre used to be, the rose, and the globe. We looked at the remains of Winchester Palace, the Tate Modern Museum, The Golden Hinde (a 16th centuary ship), The Southwark Cathedral, The Clink (prison!) and the London bridge…the funny thing about that bridge is it gets confused with the more elaborate looking bridge that everyone knows London from which is actually called the TOWER bridge, the London bridge is very plain and boring! Lol but yeah! But, when we finished our tour we headed back to Vineopolis to take the tour and wine testing exhibits…We got to try 5 wines of our choice from a TON of countries, the ones I picked were from Argentina, France, Portugal, and Israel! My favorite was the one from Israel called Moscato Di Carmel, or for short Carmel! It was sooo sweet and tasty! I had 2 of that one…I asked for all the sweetest ones and my fav was Carmel, then one from Argentina called Finca El Retrio, it was also quite sweet! We also got to try a Bombay Sapphire Experience, which was a choice of 3 cocktails, I had the sweetest the Summer Sapphire, which was delicious it tasted of kiwi and apple juice…ish! Lol it was quite sweet. The topper of the whole tour was the tasting of AMSINTHE! “La Fée Verte” or the green fairy!! It’s a hallucinogenic alcohol that has been banned from the US since 1912!!! So yeah I tried a small sample of the Czech and the Bohemian styles. The Bohemian was defiantly the better of the 2 tastes…the Czech was CRAZY!!! Lol the bohemian tasted like a semi-sweet black licorice! It is a drink that is PREPAIRED…taking it straight from the bottle is NASTY! The guy let us try barely a sip of what it taste like if you didn’t prepare it…lets just say I thought the Czech was going to burn through my mouth and the bohemian was just SOOOO strong! Yuck…but we learned the 2 ways to prepare, either burning a spoon of sugar and caramelizing it then pouring water over it and mixing it all into about 1 ½ inches of the liquor. The other way is to pour water over a cube of sugar to melt it almost and mix. It was a cool learning experience, but I didn’t like the taste…after that we went to the bottle buying section. They guys got absinthe, and I got a bottle of Carmel which was only like 6LBS! But I’m saving that for a special occasion…don’t know what yet…but something! Mmm can’t wait! So after that we headed back to our dorms to drop stuff off, then cought the tube again to go to the theatre...at the stop we had to wait like 3 min till the next train, and i look across the tracks and on the other side are these 2 very handsome european men looking at me...so i did a look, look away, look...then the one winked right before the trin drove by...they got on the train still looking at me as im waiting on the platform outside, and as the train takes away both of them smile at me and the one noded his head (like a whats up nod) lol so i smiled back, and then they were gone...funny and made my self esteem go up! YEAH! lol and i thought i looked TERRIBLE today! woot...its prolly just the DAMN cleavage! haha but yeah so we took the tub and then went to the Lord of the Rings theatre to see if we could get discounted student tickets for the show and we did! We got like 6 rows up on the center of the grand circle! In this theatre there was the stalls or orchestra, the grand circle, the upper circle, and the balcony!!! It was HUGE! The tickets we got were normally 60LBS!!! YEAH we were happy! Lol soo nice theatres in London you can actually bring drinks in, they sell it like vendors too! Also on broadway or in America you’d get a program/playbill and then can buy a souvenir program…well in London you have to buy a program or souvenir program! Nothings included! Yeah that was kinda sad so I got the program which was real nice (although I have souvenir programs for most of the shows I’ve gone to see in the past :-/ oh well what can u do) So we saw the show which had AMAZING technical effects but bad storyline and acting really…idk Most of the cast was the ORIGIONAL cast which was REAL COOL but it still wasn’t that good…the singing was Fabulous…but not much to the songs…it was like Flashy, but hollow…I loved the technical spider it was HUGE and walked right out on stage, I loved the flying system effects, the lighting was AMAZING, oh and the springs on the ORCS feet were neat, cause they did like awesome flips and stuff…but they show itself was putting EVERYONE around me to sleep…it was quite amusing actually! Ahha so after the show was over as we were headed back to the tube station we saw like a mob of screaming girls outside a theatre, when we got closer we realize the theatre was for the play In Celebrate, which ORLANDO BLOOM is currently in!!! So once this clicked we RAN over and got a GREAT glimpse of him!!! I was only like 5 feet away if that!!! I tried taking pictures but my camera’s gay and I only got one and its dark and only of like the side of his face…but still I was next to him!!! And let me tell you…SO MUCH HOTTER IN PERSON!!! Oh yes! Lol so after he drove away with his body guards lol we headed on the tube all giddy and came back, where I made a sandwich…and here I am!
AMAZING DAY!!!
WORD OF THE DAY: Absinthe -an illegal drink in the US! Hehehe
OOO and just like they drive on the left side of the road, they walk on the left side of the sidewalk so “stay to the left!” lol random fact of the day! J
I miss my London mates! They had to go on duty this week till about Sunday I believe :-/ miss those crazy’s!! lol
Tomorrow’s plans are regular classes at 10 and 2, then later tomorrow night we’re seeing the modern play “Kean.” I don’t know much about it, but it seems to be quite interesting! So that’s the game plan! O and I need to do laundry…but don’t have time! Lol
This weekend it looks like we’re planning the Paris/Rome trip for next weekend, and this weekend maybe Scotland! Tues we got tickets to see Spamalot! Woot!
YEPYEP soooooo much excitement….oh and I got to see St. Paul’s, not inside yet, but the outside…and all I could think of was “to kill outside St. Paul’s, requires a lot of BALLS!” lol -J&H lol loved that show! Haha yepyep! <3
Well hope all is well miss and LOVE YoU!
~*HeLeNe*~