Touristing and Mozart

Saturday was the first day of class. We won’t usually have class on Saturdays, but this has been kind of a crazy week. I’m taking Shakespeare and a Victorian Literature class called, “The Woman Question”, about the place of women during that time. It’s actually pretty interesting. Anyway, I’m such a nerd and I totally am excited for my classes (except for the homework part). We have one classroom in the place that we’re staying in, so we just have to go down the stairs to get to class.

We finished the Theatre Walk that we had started the day before, and saw cool places like Leicester (pronounced “Lester”) Square (some of the spelling/pronunciations are so weird here) where you can buy half-price theatre tickets on the day of the show, Trafalgar Square, Piccadilly Circus, which is kind of London’s version of Time Square, London’s Chinatown, and so much that I could keep going on forever. And even if this is lame, we all took a quick stop at McDonalds to see how their McFlurry's measured up (kinda melty).


We ate dinner at "Kahns", an Indian Restaurant that is just down the street from us. And I discovered that I love Indian Food.

Last night we went to a concert of Mozart’s Requiem at an old church called St. Martin’s-in-the-Field.
It was incredible. The acoustics were so so amazing, and the orchestra/choir was good, and it was all just such a neat experience even though we paid for the cheap balcony tickets and couldn’t see a thing. I love Mozart. And I’m so glad that I re-watched Amadeus with Dad just before coming here because it just made it even that more powerful to me.