First day of class

Today was the first day of our classes over at the ACCENT center.  I had only one class today, but we met at two different times.  First part was from 9:30 until 11am, and then we had a three hour break until our next part from 2-3:30pm.  This was my "Drama in London" course of the four courses that I will be taking while I am here.  It seems like it will be interesting: we mostly will just be reading various plays, discussing them, and then going to watch them at theatres around the city.  Which is cool!  And the professor seems nice and funny too, which is a bonus.  Today we learned a little about the background history of Elizabethian theatre in London (the time when Shakespeare's plays started gaining popularity).  The first show we will be seeing though is next week and it's called Fragments, which is pieces of Samuel Beckett's plays all together in one show.  That should be interesting...Beckett seems kind of weird.

In between my classes (during my three hour break), I got a coffee and then sat in a nearby square/park type thing and read for a little while.  Then, spent the last hour in the British Museum (which is right down the street from where my classes are) checking out the American exhibit they have going on right now, with some pieces from Pollack, Hopper, and a few others whose names I don't remember (oops!).  It was pretty awesome.  Mostly just because of the fact that I don't really even mind going to class here because I'm going to class in London.  Everything is made more amazing whenever I remember where I am, and where I am going to be studying for the next four months.  It's still pretty surreal.

Oh!  And another (yummy) discovery was made today: there is this chain restaurant all around the city called "Pret-A-Manger."  I have been hearing good things about it (it's cheap, yummy, and organic)...so I decided to pick  up a sandwich on the way home today from class.  SO GOOD!  I had a smoked salmon and lemon and butter sandwich on whole wheat bread for only 2 pounds 85.  It was delicious!!  My tummy is very pleased with this new discovery.  :)