I See London, I See France, I See KP's Underpants!: I Feel Black Out Drunk on Food

Happy Turkey Day!

Well this week has been a full one. It’s hard to believe that this is my last week of class. The week started off as every other does, with me sleeping in and recovering from the weekend. I then got up and did some homework. I then decided to eat lunch out. I was lost in thought and ended up wondering into Bloomsbury Park. I had lunch there on a bench just thinking about life and reflecting on these past three months. It was a nice way to spend the afternoon. Soon it was time for my last Theatre class. Unfortunately I can’t tell you anything about the class since I zoned out the minute I got there (isn’t it amazing how little we youngsters care about work when we can see the end in sight??). Anyways after class, I came back and got ready for our last play. Our teacher decided to reward us for a good semester and she booked a musical. We went and saw La Cage Aux Folles. It was possibly one of the funniest plays I have ever seen. If you get a chance, you should definitely see it. I laughed so much and the songs were so catchy and upbeat. Soon it was time to retire since the next day was a full one.

On Tuesday I had my morning class, but since that teacher never actually does anything it was pretty pointless. We were out of class before noon. In the afternoon, we had Film class. He gave us our final quiz and of course this was the one book I actually didn’t read since it was a graphic novel (the Watchmen) and I just could not get through it all. I think I only missed one question and luckily he drops the lowest quiz grade, which will be my 9 out of 10 on this quiz. After class our outing was to Elstree Studios. This was a really cool outing except for the fact that it was 13 miles outside of London and we had to walk 15 minutes in the rain to get to the studio once we got there. Anyways, we got to tour the studios and see some sets that were currently under construction. Some of the movies that have been shot there include: Eyes Wide Shut, The Other Boleyn Girl, and the original Star Wars movies. It was quite a cool place to be.

Wednesday brought my last day of my last ever 300 level history class. Since there was only me in class that day my teacher quickly went through Thatcherism and then we headed out to the Portrait Gallery. Afterwards she bought me lunch at the gallery café and we just talked about life. I’m really going to miss her. She is one of my favorite history teachers so far. Then I hopped on the tube and headed over to Harrods to do some Christmas shopping. They have a whole section on the 2nd floor dedicated to Christmas called “Christmas World.” I got to hear lots of different Christmas music while I shopped for some ornaments. Let me tell you when you buy something in Harrods they treat you really nice. They even show you where the nice bathroom is, you know the one you don’t have to pay to go into and that has a bathroom attendant. When I was done at Harrods I hopped back on the tube and went over to Piccadilly Circus. I walked down Regents Street to get to Oxford Street which is a main shopping area. I walked up and down the street buying the rest of the things I needed before I leave. I spent way too much money and was almost late to the weekly meeting. I realized I had been shopping for over 5 hours when I finally got back to Madison House around 5:45. After the weekly meeting, it was of course karaoke time. We headed to the Old Explorer to watch some people sing some songs. I did not perform this week, but don’t worry, I am saving it all up for next week. When the pub closed we headed over to one of our favorite bars in Leicester Square called O’Neil’s. There we just talked, hung out, and listened to some music. We then headed home since the next day was going to be a full one.

With only 4 hours of sleep, I headed off to my final class of 2009 and 1st semester senior year. Professor Pacey had a guest lecturer who was a playwright and TV writer. Everyone really enjoyed this class. We even got to make up story lines for a new TV show of our creation. After class I collapsed into bed for 3 hours. I almost felt bad since so many others were running around, cooking and preparing for Thanksgiving. It was kind of like being at home when Mommy and Masis do all the work and I just show up and eat! Once I had woken, I got to work myself cutting the bread, which was my contribution to our Thanksgiving dinner. At 8 o’clock we all gathered downstairs to have our group Thanksgiving. There were about 25 of us in total and we had enough food to feed 50 people. There was so much. We all had a blast. We even had some toasts given and lots of pictures taken. After dinner, pretty much everyone helped in the clean up process and we got everything cleaned up pretty quickly. While others went out, some of us stayed in and were planning on watching a movie or just relaxing. Before we could decide what we really wanted to do, Trev and Rich decided to do a panty raid on the girls below us. We thought they were joking since they had some wine at dinner. Unfortunately they weren’t. This turned out into the most hilarious and funniest and legit fight. There was wrestling, blocking of doors, pulling and pushing, yelling, and bargaining. It was soooooooo much FUN!!! And soooooo FUNNY!!! I have not been in a fight like that since my youthful tomboy days. It was all in good fun and everyone felt like that had actually worked off all that food we had eaten.