Wed - I gave in my script for theater SUPER excited for my plot and writing, thinking that my Theater-nazi teacher will LOVE it and I'm an AMAZING writer, the best script writer EVER despite the fact that I've never written one before. Turns out, no I am not the best one "ever" I wasn't even the best writer sitting at my table. She and my class tore the script apart, at one point attacking me personally by calling me sexist. Me? The girl who told people she would specifically come to Shul just to take the Torah from the Ark if they didn't pass it to the girls' side??? Needless to say I choked back tears (like a boss) and silently killed her in my head. Back to the drawing board.
Wed night was play night and we saw The Playboy of the Western World - an Irish play featuring the lovely Robert Sheehan of Misfits fame. We sat literally front row and the play had a LOT of action, not to mention spitting and sweating so that was nice. I started getting into Misfits after falling in love with Robert and now I have something do at work!
Thursday - Thursday night my friend Jackson and I hit up a pub called Waxey O'Connor's. It's one pub with 6 floors and each floor is a different theme. Except the themes are THAT different so I think it was all the same and then they just put signs up that said "Cottage" "Wild West" "Outdoors". It was in an...interesting area as well. I think it was West End and right smack dab in the middle of the red light district. And by red light I mean gay nightclubs. Like, everywhere you looked there were places called Pride and Natural and The Closet. However, there was this yogurt shop called Snog which is apparently a homosexual yogurt shop. How does one make a yogurt shop homosexual you ask? Well stock it with gay employees, have rainbow flashing lights on the ceiling and have most of your clientele be dancers from the clubs next door. The yogurt was surprisingly sweet for being sugar and fat free ("A snog is fat free and good for you!"). After the yogurt, Jackson and I decided to go to Karaoke night at the Ish bar since we hadn't done that in a while. We sang an awful rendition of Katy Perry's Hot and Cold. Seriously, during the song Jackson decided he was going to stop singing and just yell the words. After the song however this British man comes up to us is like "you have the voice...of an angel" and I was like "cool thanks" so he puts his hands on my shoulders and slowly brings me closer (I thought he was whispering in my ear) and kisses the side of my head. So I'm like wait what the actual fuck? And he walks away. So that was weird.
Shabbat - This weekend I went to Brighton with JSOC. I was a little nervous since I didn't know anyone else going but I really wanted to see Brighton so I just hopped on the bus. Fortunately, I did meet some very nice people and Brighton is freaking GORGEOUS. Our hotel was RIGHT on the beach. Seriously, Sat morning I woke up to see the sunrise over the ocean. Everything is so bright and colorful, i was in love.
Friday night I sat with some people who were surprised to learn that I didn't know anyone there beforehand since I kept saying hello to people (or the people I remembered the names of from the bus). It was weird that most of the students there weren't religious. They all had their phones and laptops which whatever, do what you want I don't care (or as one boy said to me "you're religious?? But you don't have that like...judgmental face when I talk to you") but it is a Jewish trip so...it was more like NCSY.
Saturday, none of the cool people I met the night before decided to come back and it was sad. But I got to explore the beach and boardwalk which was amazing. I'm definitely going back when my sister comes.
Sat night I went to see Ides of March with Molly. I needed some non-social time after talking to billions of new people. It was a pretty nice movie, how can you go wrong with Ryan Gosling? After the movie we got ice cream and met some ah,
interesting Brits:
Me: Exclusively
Man: What do you recommend?
Me: Um, Elle and Marie Claire are good, why?
Man: Do they have pics of naked chicks in them?
Me: No, what you're looking for is porn.
Man: Oh ok...what are you doing in London? What are you studying?
Me: Journalism
Man: Are you gonna write something about me being like a sex pedophile or something?
Me: Yes
Man: Have a good night!
Sunday - I woke up ungodly early to volunteer at Camley Street for MITZVAAHHH DAYYYY. YAY. A day when there's a ton of volunteering and free shirts around London which was pretty rad. I was the photographer which was awesome since that meant I didn't have to get into the pond and pull out garbage (damn!). It was mostly 16 year olds volunteering which made me feel super old. But I met the Mitzvah Day photographer who said he'd love to get my pics so hopefully they're good enough to go on their website, which could be great if I don't make it as a script writer.
Yesterday - It was another Internship class in which we learned about Reverse Culture Shock (going back and hating America). I also learned that graduate school here is only one year AND you don't have to take the GRE's. Which sets it for me. I'm definitely coming back. Although I don't graduate for another 2 years so I guess I have time to decide. But yes, I'll be back.
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