Classy mc class class
So this week was my first week of classes at (the) LSE and so far things are going pretty well. I'm taking interesting courses, and each class is small with the professor teaching the seminar group directly (not some graduate student like at NYU or UofT) so you get a great sense of the material. Plus every student is assigned a personal tutor who is semi-responsible for them and is a full-time member of staff. My tutor is Maurice Fraiser, a political economist who worked for the Tory government in the 80's, was educated at the Lycee Francais in London, and speaks Greek on top of perfect French and English. He also owns a publishing company that makes all the summit works for the G8 and UN Summits, so hopefully there is a possible job opportunity there for next year! anyways, he's super cool and last night was my programme (english spelling now, I know nerdy)'s party at the pub on campus which was very fun and all the professors were there having a beer with the students and discussing god knows what. I really like the English education system, where the professors are so much more involved in your study then back in the US. At NYU I never saw a prof outside of lecture. not once. so this is great.
Then I also got invited to a benefit for the National Theatre that did a preview screening of The History Boys before the film gets released in about 2 weeks here in the UK. It was really fun. Champagne, met some nice people, got to talk to James Corden who plays Timms in the play and is bloody hilarious. All the other actors stayed backstage though until they were introduced briefly, I think they're having a tough time coming to terms with the fact that after 2 1/2 years of working together, it's finally over :-(. The film was good, although still not as good as the play.
Its gotten much colder already, which means that this weekend I have to try and see some things in London that I've been meaning to see and won't be able to in the winter. Also before LSE coursework seriously takes over my life. I'm also taking French in addition to my EU courses, so hopefully I can achieve some level of competence with the damn language. Everyone at LSE speaks french, it's crazy. There's tons of Belgians, Luxembourg-ians?, and French people at the school and so they're always speaking to each other en francais and I wish I could understand all of it. Hopefully I'll be good by the end of June, but who knows.
Nothing much else to report. Miss the fam and friends back home, although I'm slowly adding to my score of British friends, which is good! yey! Anyways, cheers and lots of love
Liz
Then I also got invited to a benefit for the National Theatre that did a preview screening of The History Boys before the film gets released in about 2 weeks here in the UK. It was really fun. Champagne, met some nice people, got to talk to James Corden who plays Timms in the play and is bloody hilarious. All the other actors stayed backstage though until they were introduced briefly, I think they're having a tough time coming to terms with the fact that after 2 1/2 years of working together, it's finally over :-(. The film was good, although still not as good as the play.
Its gotten much colder already, which means that this weekend I have to try and see some things in London that I've been meaning to see and won't be able to in the winter. Also before LSE coursework seriously takes over my life. I'm also taking French in addition to my EU courses, so hopefully I can achieve some level of competence with the damn language. Everyone at LSE speaks french, it's crazy. There's tons of Belgians, Luxembourg-ians?, and French people at the school and so they're always speaking to each other en francais and I wish I could understand all of it. Hopefully I'll be good by the end of June, but who knows.
Nothing much else to report. Miss the fam and friends back home, although I'm slowly adding to my score of British friends, which is good! yey! Anyways, cheers and lots of love
Liz