So I’ve come to the end of another school week. My 3rd to be exact. It’s hard to believe that 3 weeks have already flown by. School was alright this week. On Tuesday I went on a SoHo walking tour which was cool. We got to see some old blues joints and learned about the rise of blues. Did you know that though rhythm & blues got its start in America, most of the artist had to come to England to get famous? The English loved the blues movement when the Americans were still ignoring such music. It was very cool to see where artists such as Muddy Waters had played at back in the day.
Jamie and I enjoying a night offI handed in my first history paper on Wednesday. This is the first time in 2 years that I’ve wrote an assignment in history that wasn’t required to be 5 or more pages. A 2 page paper! Can you believe it??? I couldn’t. I wrote about the Elgin Marbles in the British Museum. I won’t bore you with the details of it, so I’ll sum it up in one sentence (albeit a run-on one). Ancient Greeks build Parthenon, English man in the early 1800s gets questionable permission from Turks to take parts of Parthenon mural (aka Marbles), Parliament buys Marbles from English man, and present day Greeks and New Acropolis Museum want Marbles back. Question: Should the Marbles be returned to Greece???? (you are welcome to leave your answer!!!)
Today my Culture by Design class went on an awesome outing to the British Library. Not only does this library have every book printed in the English language (can I move in please???!!!), it also has an awesome museum. The museum, located inside the library, has some real treasures. We saw 1 of the last remaining original copies of the Magna Carter. They also had some cool Beatles memorabilia (see picture) and some of Shakespeare’s original work. The most interesting book in the collection, in my opinion anyway, was the Gutenberg Bible (look mommy, I mentioned the bible). The Guttenberg Bible was the first mass printed bible, printed with the newly invented printing press. Of the thousands made and sold back in the mid-1400s only about 48 survive. Out of the 48, there are only 3 perfect bibles still intact with all its pages. Today, I got to see one of the three. It was awesome. It was in Latin so I didn’t understand a word of it, but to gaze upon it. To look at something I’ve studied many times, and finally comprehend what this printing press and this bible represented was just amazing. I was speechless.
Today my Culture by Design class went on an awesome outing to the British Library. Not only does this library have every book printed in the English language (can I move in please???!!!), it also has an awesome museum. The museum, located inside the library, has some real treasures. We saw 1 of the last remaining original copies of the Magna Carter. They also had some cool Beatles memorabilia (see picture) and some of Shakespeare’s original work. The most interesting book in the collection, in my opinion anyway, was the Gutenberg Bible (look mommy, I mentioned the bible). The Guttenberg Bible was the first mass printed bible, printed with the newly invented printing press. Of the thousands made and sold back in the mid-1400s only about 48 survive. Out of the 48, there are only 3 perfect bibles still intact with all its pages. Today, I got to see one of the three. It was awesome. It was in Latin so I didn’t understand a word of it, but to gaze upon it. To look at something I’ve studied many times, and finally comprehend what this printing press and this bible represented was just amazing. I was speechless.
Statue of Newton
British Library (its huge!)
First version of the Beatles "Yesterday"To end the day, we all went to the theatre. Not just any theatre, I might add, but The Globe Theatre. Shakespeare’s Theatre. Tonight I was a common groundling watching greatness happen. We saw “As You Like It” performed almost as it would have been preformed back in Elizabethan times (except that females actually played the female parts). It was great. I didn’t enjoy standing for 2.5 hours, but when you’re in England and seeing Shakespeare being performed at the Globe Theatre, you can’t complain too much. Luckily it didn’t rain tonight, since the Globe is an open air theatre which means it has no roof. It was a great experience and I can’t wait to give my presentation about it on Monday for Theatre class
Me being a groundling
St. Paul's at Sunset from Globe Theatre
Inside the Globe
Whitney, Hannah, & IOk it’s bedtime for me. I must be up bright and early in order to go to Brighton in the morning. I’ll write again soon.
Much love,
KP
Much love,
KP
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