Los Angeles!

OH MY GOD! I am coming home today!!!! AHHHHHHHHHHH. I can't believe that my summer is over! WHOA. I have had the most amazing experiences on this trip and made lifetime friends.

Last night in the hostel I was sleeping soundly when suddenly our roommate (he just graduated from Oregon State) sat up and started screaming, "Don't touch that! Don't touch it! NO!" over and over. I assumed that he was sleep talking, but then he got out of bed and started to check all of his stuff. It was kind of scary because I thought he was accusing me of stealing, but apparently he was sleep walking "as usual." Oh the joys of hostel living.

Anyway, I have to go pack and get ready to return to my family! YAY! I am so excited to see you mom and dad and Sean. Mike, I will see you in a few days too! SO EXCITED! Thanks to everyone who sent me messages on this blog and spent time reading it, I hope it was entertaining. I love you all so so so so so much! BYE!

No more classes!?

Oh my gosh!!! I am done with classes! WHOA. Today we gave all of our teachers presents and James Bundy (my modern teacher) got teary-eyed and said we were the only group who had ever given him a present. We made him a t-shirt that said "how did that feel?" (he always says that after a scene) and on the back it said "off you go" (which is always what he says before you start a scene). I will REALLY miss him. He is by far the best acting teacher I have ever had and we all became very close to him.

To celebrate the end of classes today, my acting group (we are called Lorca) went and played an awesome game of laser tag at a local game place. We also rode one of those mechanical bulls...so fun. Tomorrow is open day when parents and friends come to watch us in our classes. I am playing Cassius in a scene from Julius Caesar and Olga in a scene from Chekov's Three Sisters. I can't believe it is already open day! AH! I am sad, but SO excited to go home at the same time. Only a few more meals of fish pie and cabbage.

Time to head back to school and get ready for all the celebrating! Miss you! Oh, and Dad, that parrot article was hilarious!

Monday

The talent show was hilarious! Everyone was so entertaining....no kidding(!), I guess we ARE at an acting school. After the show, we all went out to a dance club and chilled with some British folk--fun fun fun. British people think that Americans are bad dancers and Americans think the same about them, so it is kind of funny to see them interact at clubs.

I can't believe I am coming home so soon! I can't figure out how to read my plane ticket though, so I am going to go to the nearest STA and figure it out. OH, I learned some new funny English phrases! My teacher once said that someone's performance was "the bee's knees" (meaning good) and she told another student to "put some welly" into her performance (meaning gusto or something?). Anyway, that was random.

Alrighty, time for a Question and Answer session with a London director. Cheerio!

One more week!

No worries everyone, I am doing ok. They apparently found 4 more bombs on the tubes in London, which is very scary considering the fact that I will be ON those tubes in a week, but otherwise I am doing well. I only have one more week left!!!!! I can't believe that! It feels like I never lived anywhere else. It is going to be so strange to go back home, but it'll be so wonderful too.

Man, one thing I will NOT miss is the food. Every day we are fed red meat slop on rice and it is so gross. The worst part about it is that it is basically a variation of beef stew, which (as you well know) I hate with a burning passion. The desserts are delicious though, so I just tough it out through dinner to get to the sweet stuff.

Classes have been going well and I am still in awe of my modern acting teacher. I feel like I am a little bit smarter about life every time he speaks. I love it. Tonight we are having a talent show in the main dining hall and I get to see a bunch of my friends sing and dance and all kinds of fun stuff. I'm not performing because I wasn't in the mood to audition, but it should be fun to see the show they've put together.

I think I am going to go try to steal some non-beefy maybe chocolate item right now! Miss you all!

Sunny Sundays

Thank God for Sundays! Today is so beautiful and despite the fact that I have tons of work to do, I feel so content and happy. Yesterday I saw A Midsummer Night's Dream in an outdoor theatre and I really enjoyed it. I have some good friends here who go to Fordham College in New York...they are very laid back theatre people, which I love. Well, this post is small, but I just wanted to say hi. I miss home!

Ol' Julius

I'm not sure where the title for this post came from....I guess I just have Julius Caesar on the brain. Classes have been going great. I have the most amazing modern acting teacher. His name is James Bundy and he is the dean of the Yale Drama School. I can't even describe how much I have learned from this guy in the last two weeks. Everything he says is so clear and understandable and AMAZING. He can take a scene that is already amazing and make it 500 MILLION times better. I feel so lucky to be in his class.

My Shakespeare class is ok, though I am often frustrated by my extremely British and crazy teacher, who is actually an actress, not a teacher. The other day she made me recite my sonnet while kicking a shoe around and swaying back and forth. I am sure there was a lesson to be learned from that exercise, but I would sure like to know what it was! I also have a class called physical where we are doing some really funny exercises with masks.

In other news it is extremely hot here and I am boiling to death as we speak. It is so beautiful though, so that makes up for everything. Alrighty, gotta run and memorize a new sonnet!

Flashback...

Thanks so much for the messages and good thoughts....this week has been crazy and scary. Most of us here at school had no idea what was going on because we do not have internet or television, so we all got extremely scared when we were silenced at lunch for an announcement....definite flashback to September 11th. A lot of our teachers live/have families in London, so everyone was on eggshells that day, but it seems that all is well. I was freaking out because I had been on the tube that blew up only 5 days earlier. Such a scary world right now.

In lighter news, school is great. Today we have a question and answer session with David Schwimmer, who is a BADA alum. Right now I am working on Julius Ceasar and Chekov's Uncle Vanya. We have class everyday from 8am to 6pm, so I am generally exhausted all the time, but having so much fun. I have become friends some kids from Boston College and all kinds of other places in the states.

The things that have been going on lately really make me stop and think about the people that I love. Kisses and hugs to everyone... I hope all is well!

Auditions (dun dun DUN)

Auditions went well, thankfully. Despite what I said earlier, we are not being split into beginning and advanced acting - yay. Instead they are splitting us into 9 different groups of 14 people. We will be doing scenes and working with those 14 people for the entire term. I think this method is a LOT better because it is harder for people to form cliques, etc. My audition was yesterday at 11 a.m. and I find out what group I am in today at 3 p.m. We are having a big party tonight at the school to meet the faculty and get ready for the first day of class.

Last night was really fun and I got to know a lot of people. We went to see "War of the Worlds," which was an ok movie and then we went out to a club. Everybody finally got a chance to relax and dance with each other. I became friends with a random girl named Annika who is from Oxford and she helped me work on a cockney accent. Then she really wanted to have a sword fight with imaginary machetes (no idea how to spell that word), so we did...hahaha. When I read that sentence, I can tell you are thinking "what???" but no worries guys, I escaped the machete fight unharmed. After the club we went back to Balliol and played some serious frisbee (flashback to ICS-awww) out on the lawn and looked at the stars and chatted about the program to come that we all know nothing about.

Tomorrow is July 4th and Michael Simkin is coming to visit me! Have fun in Washington D.C. Mom, Dad, Sean and Mike. I hope you're feeling better Mike!

I made it!

I finally made it to Oxford after many trains, underground tunnels and buses. It is good to hear people speaking English again. On the train ride from Paris I was seated next to a bald Hungarian man with an enormous white beard. He was really nice and we tried to talk, but my Hungarian is rusty. He kept asking "Is London bella?" After lots of sign language and topic changes, I managed to communicate that he would need to change his Euros to pounds and he was grateful. Very nice guy.

My room here at Oxford is exactly like a room in Harry Potter....so exciting! My window overlooks a graveyard though. I originally thought I was next to a resident advisor because there is a huge bag of condoms on the door next to mine, but that room is apparently called the JCR and it is where we have all of our meetings. Jessica Kaplan's room is VERY CREEPY. It used to be the "sick room" so it has a hallway and creepy bathtub room. The whole place makes the hair on your neck stand up....looks like I got lucky.

Tonight we are having a meeting in the JCR and then a big group dinner in the dining hall. The campus is really old and beautiful. The area seems nice too and one of my favorite British eating places, Pret a Manger, is right around the corner. Tomorrow we have auditions, so I better go practice!

OXFORD

Tomorrow morning I take off for Oxford! AH! I am feeling much better now, though I have a pretty bad cough. Hopefully it will clear up soon....I am taking some pills for it. I am excited about the next program, but a little overwhelmed! I will write again when I get there!!!! Miss you all!

Fever in Paris

Well I made it safely to Paris, but realized I had been awake for 42 hours by the time I went to sleep. I woke up thinking I was sleeping on a bunch of pockets and realized I had a fever. Thank God I came to Paris because I called Kate and she and Dan took care of me. Today I feel much much better, but still a little strange. The more I sleep the better, so I am trying to do a lot of that.

Paris is not the same without the group, but it is still amazing and beautiful. Hopefully I can get back into the swing of things tomorrow. Miss you all!

Sniffles

Everybody is gone. I am so sad! How can you go from constant contact with 11 other people for 5 weeks and then suddenly have no one? This is definitely hard to get used to.

I take off for a train to Paris in 20 minutes so I better get going. I will never EVER EVER forget this amazing trip.......hopefully my next entry will be more upbeat.

Hiking in the Alps...

I spent today hiking in the most beautiful mountain ever. Zach and I took off on a train this morning and arrived in Sierre after an hour and hopped on a bus for a small town that starts with a V (can't remember). On the bus ride up the mountain a bunch of French kids were singing some really pretty songs in the back. After the pretty French songs they started singing Maroon 5 and the singing all went downhill from there. Once we got to the little town we headed off on a random trail toward St. Luc. Little did we know that the hike we were about to take would last for hours because of detours, but it was sooooooo worth it.

At one point along the trail we came to a little meadow where it sounded like there were sprinklers and we were a little perplexed. The "sprinklers" were actually thousands of crickets that covered the entire ground and leapt up as we walked. We could literally put our hands out and grab them. After walking through the forest for a while we suddenly came across this enormous meadow with a little wooden shack in the middle and when we turned around, our mouths literally dropped at the view of the Swiss Alps. It was so beautiful. We took millions of pictures and Zach took a video of me running in circles like Maria in "The Sound of Music."

After about three hours we started getting worried because our hike was only supposed to last an hour and we had nothing to eat or drink. We began to hear a tiny tinkling of bells ahead of us, which we hoped meant that a village was near. As we wandered forward we realized that it was a group of cows with cowbells around their necks.....they were so cute! The sound of the bells reminded me of reading Heidi when I was 11 and dreaming of living on a farm in Switzerland. It is funny because everything that happens here is like a story book.

Once we passed the cows we heard the sound of water and got excited to cool off from the heat of the hike. The river turned out to be absolutely freezing so we only put our feet in, but it felt good nevertheless. Finally after TONS of walking, we came upon St. Luc and stumbled into the first restaurant we could find. The food there was SO good! I don't know if it was that good because I was starving or because hiking makes you feel like you've earned it or what, but it was sooooooo delicious. We had warm goat cheese on toast and ham and pepperoni and salad.....yum yum yum.

With full stomachs we wandered over to the bus stop and lay out in a field as we waited for the bus to come. What an amazing day. I am the luckiest girl on the planet. I am smiling as I type this because I am still excited by these adventures. Wow. With that, I think I will go to sleep. Love you all! Goodnight.

Flying high!

Today I jumped off a mountain! Yep yep yep. After some serious convincing, I went paragliding with a bunch of the girls and it was so incredible. You are basically strapped on to a guy who is holding a parachute and you run down this little hill and suddenly take off into the air 4,000 feet above the ground. It was so peaceful and beautiful and the sun was setting and ahhhhhhhhhhhhh it was crazy. I took lots and lots of pictures and even a video. Coolest thing ever! Anyway, I have to work on a paper now....only a few more days of the program left!!!!!

Nestle

I just got back from our last site visit...NESTLE! It was the best venue we have been too....hehehehe. They fed us a three course meal! Most places don't even give us water! We got a salad, chicken with mushrooms and noodles and the most amazing sorbets. I haven't eaten that well in a loooooong time. Afterwards we got to shop for any Swiss chocolate that we wanted!!!! So fun! I felt like Augustus Gloop in Willy Wonka.

The sun is shining as usual here and the birds are chirping and Geneva is still as amazing as it was the first day. Tonight I am doing the most amazing thing on the planet, but I will not give it away for now to keep up the suspense......

Last night we all went out to a pub and had delicious sandwiches and laughed about good times. On the way back to the hotel I jumped into Lake Geneva in my clothes because it was so hot. It was a full moon and the water was so refreshing. I think I have found Heaven.

SO wierd!

Christiana was searching the net and randomly found this picture of our group at the European Broadcast Union....we visited them on Friday!!! Visit this site http://www.ebu.ch/en/union/news/2005/tcm_6-38578.php to see a picture....I am on the left, but you can barely see me. This is so funny!

Kayaking

How do I even begin to describe the day I have just had....? After sleeping in and having a delicious breakfast, I went kayaking on Lake Geneva with a bunch of people from the group. I could not stop gasping at the scenery. There was an enormous tree growing in the middle of the lake so we kayaked over. When I got to the tree (kind of like a willow), I paddled through some of the branches and underneath into this little area where the water was crystal clear and the sun was shining through the canopy..........SO AMAZING. The air was perfect, the water was perfect, the tree was perfect...AHGHHHH! How have I never seen these things before??? After staring at the tree for a good amount of time, I paddled out to the rest of the group and we connected our kayaks and swam around in the cool water. It was so refreshing and surreal. We kept asking each other "WHERE ARE WE?.....oh, that's right.....SWITZERLAND!"

Afterwards we took a bus back to the hotel and ate bread and cheese and cookies outside in the sun with a view of the mountains. I have never been more relaxed in my entire life. Then Michele, Zach and I wandered down to the lake to feed the ducks, but ended up swimming again and chatting on a bench in the fresh air.

Tonight we are going to a popular club in Laussane (do not know how to spell that), which should be fun. I think I will go lounge around now and take a nap....I can't believe I am saying all of this! I am in frikin GENEVA! Miss you all and I hope L.A. is sunny for you too.

Also, happy graduation, SEAN!!!

MONTREUX!

We are here! Our hotel is amazing. We get washing machines, free internet, free breakfast and a deck with a view of the Swiss Alps!!! It is so amazing. Everything here in Switzerland is so green, I love it! I am so tired, so I will sign off, but I miss you all!

Last Leg

Today is our last day in Prague and then we only have Geneva left. To celebrate, we are going on a boat cruise for dinner. It makes me VERY sad to think that this trip is nearly over.

Today we visited Burson Marsteller, a PR firm, and Ceska Television. Prague venues are especially difficult because of language differences and sometimes we have to have an interpreter. I am super excited for tonight....I get excited every night!! We got another homework assignment today though and I really really really don't want to do it. Oh well. Miss you all!

Black Light Theatre

Dobre Den!

I went to a black light theatre last night and had such an awesome time!!!!! It is basically theatre without spoken words performed in black light. All of the acts corresponded with Beatles songs coincidentally, so it was super fun to sing along and hear some familiar tunes. It is wierd how much you end up missing the music back home. Afterwards, Christiana, Zach and I had an amazing dinner. I got a goat cheese salad with cranberries, lettuce and toast.....SO GOOD.

We are about to visit the Prague Post, which is an English newspaper here that was established by some students from UCSB....should be interesting. Tonight we are seeing another black light show...this time it is Alice in Wonderland. Talk to ya'll soon!

Finally got a picture on here!

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This is a picture of some of us eating hotdogs in the freezing London air. I am not sure why I am having so much trouble with these pictures....but this one is pretty good!

Jazz Club...

We listened to some live jazz last night that would make you want to lounge around and listen to music for the rest of your life. The trombone player was drunk though and ended up falling flat on his face and hitting his teeth. It was a bit scary, but the night continued on.

Today we wandered over to the Prague Castle and then walked through a beautiful park that looks over the whole city. We all get along so well! It is great to have 11 new friends. We chatted about funny things we did when we were little and I had a couple of stories to throw in there.

Music is a huge deal here in Prague so we are all trying to take advantage of that and see as many concerts as we can. I think I am going to go to the black light theatre too because that is apparently a Prague-ish thing to do....haha.....should be interesting.

I am feeling kind of sick today so I think I am going to go lie down for a bit. Hope all is well in L.A. and everywhere else (depending on who is reading this). Toods!

The most beautiful city in the world!!!!

Another city, another completely different keyboard. If for some reason you see a z where there should be a y, it is because this keyboard is sooooooo wierd. Anyway, I am in Prague! After a long travel day (always frustrating because we have to keep 11 girls together for extended periods of time) we arrived at our hotel. The hotel is actually kind of scary because everything in it is so sterile and uniform. I am used to it now though. My new roomies are cool.....I am rooming with Christiana, Mom!

Today we went to Radio Free Europe and the U.S. Embassy. The Charles Bridge is so amazing. I took a million pictures from every angle...wish you had been there Ann! Tonight we are going to a jazz club. AHHHHHH I have to go!!! Talk to you later!!!!!

Nooooooo!

Ah! Everything is so hectic!!! We are leaving for Prague in a few minutes and I have been rushing around like a crazy person! Paris went by WAY too fast! I didn't even get a chance to shop at all. Yesterday I caught a pigeon though...very exciting. My bag is literally exploding with stuff and I haven't even bought anything. In each city I get progressively messier about how I pack.

I spent my last day here in venues and then went to Notre Dame and a boat ride on the River Seine (now I know how to spell it) with some wine and good friends. I am so sad to be leaving. Ah! I really have to go!!! I want to write more, but nooooooooooo! Love you all!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MIKE!!!!!!!

I haven't been able to get online to say happy birthday to my 20-year-old brother!!!! Hope things in Washington D.C. are going well Mike!

Paris is a blast. This leg of the trip is passing by so fast! It felt like we were in London for so long and now our time in Paris is flying by. Yesterday I went to the Louvre to see the Venus de Milo and Mona Lisa (and LOTS of other things!) with my friends Zach, Michele and Lizzy. After that we wandered over to Napoleon's grave and stopped at a cafe on the way. I ordered THE most disgusting sandwich ever and pouted about losing 10 Euros for it, especially since the food here is generally so good. After Napoleon's grave we lay down in a nearby garden and soaked in the sun until it suddenly started raining. We started to walk back to our hotel and proceeded to get extremely lost. I don't know what we did so wrong, but it took us a good 2 hours to find our way back home...we even ran into Christen again!

Anyway, by the time we got back we were hungry again so we got some gelatos. Oh my sweet God they were so delicious. Mom you would die for the gelatos here! There was a guy in the gelato shop though who was from Los Angeles and he was hitting on Michele. He was wearing rollerblades and made everyone uncomfortable. He gave Michele his card and he is apparently a lawyer.....kinda like DAD...hehehehe!!!!! Michele is half Japanese and for some reason the French are very perplexed about her ethnicity. People always come up and hit on her and ask her where she is from and call her "China Lady." It is pretty awkward for all of us.

Well, I am off to Versailles for the day!!!! OH, I haven't been able to figure out how to put pictures on here, but I am working on it....no worries though because I am taking tons and tons of pictures!!!!! BYE!

Bonjour!!!!!

I am going to weigh a million pounds at the end of this trip!! The crepes and baguettes are so delicious!!!! We eat about a thousand times a day too. Today we went to BusinessWeek and then we chatted with a man who works at a communications firm in Belgium. Afterwards we had dinner and I met up with Christen Faltermeier!!!! It was so fun to see her!!!! We wandered around and I marveled at her fluent French. Tomorrow we are having a picnic under the Eiffel Tower and then we are going on a boat ride down the Sienne. I can't believe that I am even typing these places!!! I gotta run to bed! J'taime!

The Eiffel Tower

Please excuse any typos that may occur in this blog, the keyboards here in France have the letters in different places and I am finding it very hard to type. After a fun ride in the train today, the group arrived in Paris. Our hotel is adorable and very French. I only have one roommate while all of the other girls have two. This is especially good here because the rooms are incredibly small.

In the afternoon a bunch of us went to the very top of the Eiffel Tower. France is amazing!!!! I know I say that everything I have seen is "amazing," but it really truly is!!! All the buildings here are so old and intricate. Afterwards we all got ice cream and wandered around the town. The weather is absolutely perfect. It is just the right amount of hot and cold. Tomorrow I hope I can shop around because there are such great shops around here. Anyway, I gotta run and unpack some stuff for tomorrow. Toodles!

Leaving London with a sigh....

Tomorrow we take the train to Paris. I am very sad to be leaving London. I love it so much here! Today we visited the French newspaper "Le Monde" so we are already in gear for French media. I am glad that I will be back in London in July though.

Over the weekend I went to Bath, which is west (I think) of London and explored the ancient Roman baths in the center of the city with my friends Zach and Justin. Everything in the city was so old and beautiful. I got to touch the hot spring water and light a candle in an incredibly old abbey next to the baths. The churches in England are breath-taking. After the baths I ordered an extremely interesting lunch that was basically sausage, eggs and bacon piled onto a hotdog bun. It is kind of funny because practically every meal here has bread, cheese and sausage. After Bath, we drove out to Stonehendge! It is really hard to describe how awesome it is. I thought that the mass amounts of tourists would ruin the experience, but everyone somehow knew to be quiet when they approached the stones. The best part was the rolling hills. After looking at the stones, we lay down in the grass and watched the clouds. It was so peaceful. I can't believe that I am able to say I have been there!

Tonight we are having a group dinner and then we are going to a taping of a British television comedy. Later we will probably go to a pub. I miss London already! Anyway, the internet cafe man is giving me the eye, so I better sign off. I miss you all and I wish I could take you to all of these amazing places! Love you!

Notting Hill...

Well the pea coat Mom sent me got here on Friday just in time for a beautiful 80-degree Saturday (haha), but I imagine I will need the coat some time during this trip so all is well. Today we wandered around Notting Hill looking at shops and eating fresh fruit and pastries. It was an amazing day. The sun was shining, the wind was blowing and the antique stores were so fun....plus I got some presents! Last night we celebrated our first finished week abroad at a party at the London School of Economics. The kids there had just finished their finals so everyone was in a social mood. I had a long conversation with an Austrian guy about how to imitate an American accent. He was not very good at it, but his attempts were hilarious. He said that my British accent was a hick version so we had some fun making fun of each other. I also met people from Ireland, Texas and Scotland. The mix of cultures was great. It is interesting to hear about how Americans are perceived in different parts of the world.

Today is Sean's 18th birthday!!!!! Happy birthday Sean! I love you and miss you so much! I hope you have fun celebrating! I'm thinking of you!

The London Eye!

Yay for internet cafes!!! I just got out of a meeting at Channel 4, one of the more artsy television stations in London and I am sitting outside of Victoria Station waiting for our next meeting with a London PR firm. Last night I got to see "Guys and Dolls" starring Ewan McGregor at the Picadilly Theatre!!!! We had to wait for a long time for back row tickets, but it was definitely worth it. I was a bit dirty though because I had spent literally the entire day getting lost in a random part of London and trying to get back to my flat. I was so proud of myself because I figured out the tube connections to get back to Crawford House (where I live), but when I got out of the station I accidentally got on the wrong coach and was taken all the way into the theatre district. At that point I had spent an hour trying to get home so I decided to catch a cab, but since my friend had been scammed by a cab guy earlier in the trip, I caught another coach and spent another hour doodling around on coaches. In the end I made it home though, so all was well. Tonight we are going on the London Eye, which is this huge ferris wheel in the middle of London.
Friday is high tea at Harrod's (bet you're jealous mom!) and hopefully I will get to see Regent's park like Dad suggested.

All the girls are pretty much getting along, though there is some clique stuff happening. We just don't even have enough time to get annoyed with each other, so that is good.

Anyway, I really hope you feel better soon Sean, it worries me that you are still sick. Sleep and rest and read blogs alllllll day to get better ok? Love you all! Cheerio!

Cheerio!

I made it to London! When I got to the terminal in Los Angeles, I could hardly sit still from excitement. The plane was HUGE....it had a staircase up to first class (they call it "upper class"), beds in the front and TV's for every seat. As I was walking onto the plane with one of the other girls from the program (Adrienne), I saw a police officer walking with a passenger and assumed he was some British rockstar. NOPE, he was a criminal. The cop handed an attendant information about how to manage a parolee or something.....it was quite amusing and a bit scary. The "rockstar" incident didn't stop me from being excited though and I ended up staying awake for the entire 10 hour flight despite numerous attempts to sleep...I experienced some serious jetlag the next day for that.

Anyway, London is amazing and I couldn't be happier. The weather here is a lot like it is in Seattle, so basically I am freezing. With all the walking that we have to do though, I have managed to keep pretty warm. Yesterday we visited Westminster Abbey and had lunch at a local pub where everyone was watching an intense football game (yes, yes, I mean soccer). The waiters seemed a bit annoyed that we were distracting them from the TV to get some food. I guess there are a ton of big football games going on right now.....? I am kind of clueless in that area. At night we walked to The Globe Theatre and saw an amazing production of Pericles.

Today has been pretty tame because I am still getting over being so sleepy. We went to Saint John's Cathedral this morning to watch the choir boys sing. The church is amazing, especially when the sun comes out for a moment and shines through the stained glass. After that we walked to Hyde Park to watch some people rant at Speaker's Corner where anyone can discuss issues and basically scream at each other in public. Lunch was a sausage-ish thing as usual and then we wandered around London looking for a coat for me.

Well, it seems my half hour at this internet cafe is up. I miss you Mom, Dad, Sean and Mike and I hope everything is going well! Kisses and hugs!

Today is the big day!

It is official. I am finally leaving! Yes, yes it is true. I toured around Whittier yesterday and said goodbye to my family. Sean played some guitar for me last night as I fell asleep. I love my brothers so much. I'll miss you too Mom and Dad!!! My flight is at 5:30pm today through Virgin Atlantic. We should be arriving in London at 11:45am so I better sleep on the plane (though I highly doubt I'll be able to). I have to memorize a Shakespeare sonnet on the flight because I am worried I won't have any other time to work on it before BADA starts on July 1st. I also have to make sure I know my monologue. On the first day of BADA we audition for the instructors again and they place us in either the advanced acting group or the beginning group. Man, I do NOT want to be in the beginning group.

We don't really have a meeting place at the airport today. I assume I am supposed to just go to the gate and find them. I'm sure it'll be fine. There are 11 girls, one guy and three professors going on the trip. Hopefully we'll all get along!!!

Alrighty, it is time for me to wrap up some odds and ends and annoy my mom...hehehe. I will miss all of you so much! Hope your summers go well! OH, also, if you would like to contact me while I am gone, my email address is dcahill@usc.edu. I won't have my laptop but there are plenty of internet cafes. You can also comment on this blog without a password now. Ok, I'm off!

A new blog!!!

Hi Mom, Dad, Sean, Mike and everyone else!

I made this blog so that when I am in Europe I can post pictures and blurbs and you guys can see what I am up to. I hope to take millions of pictures, so get ready! I'm going to miss you all so much!

This is me!

This is me!
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