Massive update because I haven't been able to get on the internet in a few days
Here's a description of the PERFECT night:
Watching Charade (Audrey Hepburn and Cary Grant)
Going to dinner by the canal and having a nice drink with my dinner
Then to Symphony Hall to see CARMEN!!!!!!
And to top the night off, Hearing some AMAZING jazz at The Stage (local pub)
There are more miles of canal in Birmingham than there are in Venice. Theres little canal boats and little floating canal restaurants!! And there's all these little restaurants and pubs along the canal, and a nice little walkway.
The Symphony hall here is HUGE it's like a stadium, with seats all around and 3 balconies. It's beautiful and the acoustics are great. The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra is the best orchestra I have ever heard, hands down. They're even better than the London Symhony. Their old conductor just left last year to take the position as the conductor of the Berlin Symphony Orchestra, so yeah, theyre pretty good.
The Stage, which is the local pub, does a Jazz night every thursday night. There's a band on for awhile, and then later on its just a jazz jam, and anyone can get up and play. The jazz program here at the Conservatoire is really really good, so it's mostly students playing. I just sat there for like 3 hours and listened to increddible musicians playing al kinds of jazz, how much better than that does it get?
I am in York with Anna right now, and the only word for it is Lovely. :) I got on the soonest train to come see her, because she is sad...she has no phone and no internet here!!! I would be so sad and frustrated if I were her. So we are going to see the sights in York tomorrow, Colin is going to come met us :) and we are going to get her phone situation all figured out. I m so excited to be here, it's such an old, beautiful city. I got here around 6:30 pm, so I only caught a glimpse of some of the sights between getting to her room from the station and then dinner in the evening. We went to a mexican vegetarian restaurant for dinner, it was intersting, haha, it reminded me of Ithaca. We did drink a whole pot of tea between the 2 of us! I have been drinking so much tea lately, it's not even funny, haha well, yeah it is. But too much tea actually dehydrates you, so I am feeling the effects of that...yuk. Another stinky thing is that everyone smokes, and there's not really too many rules concerning when and where you can smoke...soooo I have been inhaling a lot of second hand smoke everywhere I am. It's definately taking a toll on my throat, but there's not a whole lot I can do about it, because it's everywhere. But that's about it for bad things in England, haha so I'd say I'm doing pretty well.
I keep finding out little tidbits about Alex from various people... it sucks.... like I was just informed that Leslie stayed the night at his house the other night :/ It's been like a week since everything. GOD, WHAT THE HELL??? a week. That makes me feel like crap, like he's totally not upset about anything, and just moving right along. what the hell? That's my quesiton about all of this. WHY? why didn't I see any of this coming? I'm a pretty intuitive person. what the hell is he doing with her? why the hell won't he talk to me? the last time we talked (and the ONLY time we talked after everything happened) he told me I should just get over it!! he was so friggin mean. And I'm not about to go begging him to talk to me. But what is his problem? When everything happened, he was all like "I don't want to be enemies, you're my best friend, I'm going to come visit you over winter break, blah blah blah" YEAH FUCKING RIGHT, why don't you try talking to me first? Does he think I'm going to get over it easier, and WANT to be freinds with him if he doesn't talk to me? NO. god, he's such a liar. He just tells people what he thinks they want to hear, so they don't get mad or sad, so he can take the easy way out. He is not honest, not even with himself. I sent him a postcard before everything happened, and he should have gotten it by now... so why hasn't he said anything? It was this amazing picture of Mt. Everest...It was right up his mountain-climbing alley. He ONLY cares about himself. Everything was always on HIS time. We hung out when he was done practicing, or when he had the time to do things. I rearranged my whole schedule for him. He never came to see me at my room, well, the two times I was crying and begged him to, he did. I always had to walk by myself to his house and home again.
My dad was right. I give pearls to swine. It's happened a couple of times now. I care too much, and I'm too nice, and I do too many nice things for people who don't deserve it. I think I can help people, and they just keep treating me like crap, either by controlling me, or by not caring at all. The next guy who wants me is going to have to put in some effort. I am going to be much more careful from now on. I want to see that he's a good guy, and I want the fairytale. ::sigh:: I'm sorry for ending this on such a bad note. It's really hard for me to deal with all of this because I am so far away, so for awhile it's easy to forget about...but then I hear/find out something little and its like wham it hits me in the face again. There's a lot of things I don't understand and I never will, because Alex wont talk to me...he never did...not about like how he felt and stuff.
Watching Charade (Audrey Hepburn and Cary Grant)
Going to dinner by the canal and having a nice drink with my dinner
Then to Symphony Hall to see CARMEN!!!!!!
And to top the night off, Hearing some AMAZING jazz at The Stage (local pub)
There are more miles of canal in Birmingham than there are in Venice. Theres little canal boats and little floating canal restaurants!! And there's all these little restaurants and pubs along the canal, and a nice little walkway.
The Symphony hall here is HUGE it's like a stadium, with seats all around and 3 balconies. It's beautiful and the acoustics are great. The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra is the best orchestra I have ever heard, hands down. They're even better than the London Symhony. Their old conductor just left last year to take the position as the conductor of the Berlin Symphony Orchestra, so yeah, theyre pretty good.
The Stage, which is the local pub, does a Jazz night every thursday night. There's a band on for awhile, and then later on its just a jazz jam, and anyone can get up and play. The jazz program here at the Conservatoire is really really good, so it's mostly students playing. I just sat there for like 3 hours and listened to increddible musicians playing al kinds of jazz, how much better than that does it get?
I am in York with Anna right now, and the only word for it is Lovely. :) I got on the soonest train to come see her, because she is sad...she has no phone and no internet here!!! I would be so sad and frustrated if I were her. So we are going to see the sights in York tomorrow, Colin is going to come met us :) and we are going to get her phone situation all figured out. I m so excited to be here, it's such an old, beautiful city. I got here around 6:30 pm, so I only caught a glimpse of some of the sights between getting to her room from the station and then dinner in the evening. We went to a mexican vegetarian restaurant for dinner, it was intersting, haha, it reminded me of Ithaca. We did drink a whole pot of tea between the 2 of us! I have been drinking so much tea lately, it's not even funny, haha well, yeah it is. But too much tea actually dehydrates you, so I am feeling the effects of that...yuk. Another stinky thing is that everyone smokes, and there's not really too many rules concerning when and where you can smoke...soooo I have been inhaling a lot of second hand smoke everywhere I am. It's definately taking a toll on my throat, but there's not a whole lot I can do about it, because it's everywhere. But that's about it for bad things in England, haha so I'd say I'm doing pretty well.
I keep finding out little tidbits about Alex from various people... it sucks.... like I was just informed that Leslie stayed the night at his house the other night :/ It's been like a week since everything. GOD, WHAT THE HELL??? a week. That makes me feel like crap, like he's totally not upset about anything, and just moving right along. what the hell? That's my quesiton about all of this. WHY? why didn't I see any of this coming? I'm a pretty intuitive person. what the hell is he doing with her? why the hell won't he talk to me? the last time we talked (and the ONLY time we talked after everything happened) he told me I should just get over it!! he was so friggin mean. And I'm not about to go begging him to talk to me. But what is his problem? When everything happened, he was all like "I don't want to be enemies, you're my best friend, I'm going to come visit you over winter break, blah blah blah" YEAH FUCKING RIGHT, why don't you try talking to me first? Does he think I'm going to get over it easier, and WANT to be freinds with him if he doesn't talk to me? NO. god, he's such a liar. He just tells people what he thinks they want to hear, so they don't get mad or sad, so he can take the easy way out. He is not honest, not even with himself. I sent him a postcard before everything happened, and he should have gotten it by now... so why hasn't he said anything? It was this amazing picture of Mt. Everest...It was right up his mountain-climbing alley. He ONLY cares about himself. Everything was always on HIS time. We hung out when he was done practicing, or when he had the time to do things. I rearranged my whole schedule for him. He never came to see me at my room, well, the two times I was crying and begged him to, he did. I always had to walk by myself to his house and home again.
My dad was right. I give pearls to swine. It's happened a couple of times now. I care too much, and I'm too nice, and I do too many nice things for people who don't deserve it. I think I can help people, and they just keep treating me like crap, either by controlling me, or by not caring at all. The next guy who wants me is going to have to put in some effort. I am going to be much more careful from now on. I want to see that he's a good guy, and I want the fairytale. ::sigh:: I'm sorry for ending this on such a bad note. It's really hard for me to deal with all of this because I am so far away, so for awhile it's easy to forget about...but then I hear/find out something little and its like wham it hits me in the face again. There's a lot of things I don't understand and I never will, because Alex wont talk to me...he never did...not about like how he felt and stuff.