Some catching up...

So, I haven't really been on here in a while--I have been occupied, I suppose. After Scotland, I had to catch up on some sleeping, lol.

Let's see, Thursday night was interesting...Eda and I found a Turkish Restaurant not too far from where we live. So, before dinner, we decided to go and get some coffee. Well, Eda realizes that the waiter and chefs speak Turkish, so you could see how happy she was. The waiter ended up inviting Eda and I to share dinner with him and one of the chefs. They brought out like 5 different dishes and kept piling food onto my plate! I couldn't believe how hospitable they were. After a while, the owner came in and started talking to me and Eda...It was so much fun...I sat and talked politics with him for like 2 hours. It was great. All this while being served lots and lots of wine. We ended up staying at the place from about 4 till close at 11. We had a three course dinner with more desert a couple of hours later and between Eda and me probably a bottle and a half of red wine. When we all got up to leave--our bill was on the house. Today, I might actually go back to join a book club they have at the place--I was told there would be lots of lawyers there that I could network with. :) These are the experiences you remember most, I believe.

Saturday I hung out with Clif in Covent Gardens for most of the day--they have a market and street performers on weekends, so it was packed. We went to the Texas Embassy for lunch in Trafalgar square--which was quite an experience. An entire restaurant devoted to cheesy country music and tex-mex. Then we tried to waste some time before going to see "A Mid-summer's Night Dream" at the Novello Theatre. I have now realized why there are so many restaurants in London and why there is a sit-in charge. NO ONE WANTS TO BE OUTSIDE FOR MORE THAN 2 MINUTES AT A TIME. I mean it is just so unpleasant...even if you are bundled up, your face feels like it is about to fall off. So Clif and I were jumping restaurants to get tea and little things like that, just so we wouldn't be outside. We finally made it to the theatre at around 6:30 to see the show at 7:15. I was pleasantly surprised by this performance. It was a modern rendition of MSND, which I thought would be awful, but it really was one of the funniest plays I had ever seen. It was only 5 pounds which I couldn't believe--cheaper than they 12 pound MOVIE tickets and soooo worth it. I think I will see Taming of the Shrew within the next few weeks.

After the play I went to celebrate a birthday of one of the girls at the hostel at a club/bar down the street. It was really fun, I got a chance to meet a lot of people at my place and become better friends with them. It was really nice.

Sunday, I went to the Brick Lane market again with Beth, Julia, and Clif--mostly to get food--I have refused myself from buying anything else, lol. So I got lamb and prawn dumplings again, which were quite good, and a crepe with banana, nutella, and coconut. I was quite tempted to buy some books--I love books--and at the markets you can usually get them quite cheap. I walked by this one stand that was selling all this rebel propoganda---oh I wanted several badly--some anarchist works, communist works--but they were a bit too pricy--about 15 pounds. Another stand I found actually had a lot of stuff that I would have liked to get. It was a guy selling his book collection. He had Kerouac, Kafka, Camus, Sartre, some communism books, some libertarian books and Rand. :) Didn't end up buying anything, though.

Later that night, I joined up with the girls from Bartrams again and we walked to the BAFTAs. Which is the British equivalent to the Grammys, I was told. It was miserable. They put up walls so we couldn't see the red carpet and the closest we got to actually seeing stars was through their cars. We all lined up along the road where they were dropping everyone off. I saw Meryl Streep. That was it. Everyone else had tinted windows. And it was a miserable day. I mean cold and rainy. GROSS. It was the most miserable weather I have EVER been in. My hair was all misty and my fingers and toes were numb. And I mean it was just good enough to be bearable, but teetering on the edge of unbearable. SO AWFUL.

We took the bus back home and I got a nice warm shower.

Yesterday I went to my fun class with Juliette and today I am writing in my blog waiting for it to snow again.

So...until anything else exciting comes up...I am out.