well a lot has happened since my last post earlier this week, so i will try and be concise, but with pictures and everything im not sure if that will happen......

so i have class monday - wednesday, leaving a long weekend for me to enjoy. my schedule goes a little something like this:
monday: 4-6 european culture and society
tuesday: 2-3 european politics (and a small seminar for an hour after that every other week)
wednesday: 12-1 religion, morals, and symbols (with an hour seminar after)
4-5 london theatre (and then we see a show either that night or thursday night)

so yes, my politics class mainly focuses on germany since 1945 this term. the teacher speaks slowly and this first class was rather boring, but i have hopes for it. my anthropology class, religion, morals, and symbols, is really interesting and it is taught by an elderly hippyish man from the black country. my TA for that class who teaches the seminar is a greek man named michelangelo! which is exciting and he is very animated when he talks to a rather quiet class. my theatre class is great - its only open to americans and our teacher is really great. we saw 'homestead' on wednesday evening which is being shown at the theatre museum right up the road from where 'evita' and 'the lion king' are playing. my teacher actually wrote and directed the play which features a cast of about 8 women. it was wonderful.

thursday morning my friends mary and cailin and i were meeting up in front of our flats to go to bath when i received a phone call from my friend robbie - an aussie from camp for those of you who dont know him. he had told me before that he was trying to get a flight into london from brazil (ah yes, quite the world traveler) on friday, but it turns out he was actually coming thursday morning. which caught me by suprise (i know, im a great person). so anyways, he met us at the waterloo station and the four of us took the train up to salsbury, the home of stonehenge. we had to take a bus ride to stonehenge since its a bit out of the city. when we were driving out there we were picturing walking over a grassy hill and seeing stonehenge - oh what a sight to behold! wait, there it is, on the side of the road. yep, way to go kids.

but it was still cool to see dispite the rainy, windy weather. it is the greatest henge in all the world! what is a henge? well first they built strawhenge, then woodhenge, but a big bad wolf came and blew them all down. we then returned to salsbury mid afternoon in search of lunch, however everything was closed. except for dominoes pizza, quality. after we inhaled our food we hopped back on the train for bath.

once in bath we ran over to the roman baths to take the tour (with cool hearing devices). the roman baths were really neat, especially since most of what they built (especially in way of plumbing and all) is still there and in use. its a pretty big site as well, with possibly more areas however its hard to tell completely since theres a huge city built around it. after the baths we went to find somewhere to eat dinner, and we ended up at the pub the litten tree which was cool and we made friends with the dj. after dinner we went to the backpackers hostel there (my first hostel ever!), dropped off our stuff, then went back to the litten tree for the remainder of the evening.

the next morning we went to breakfast then off to the actual baths in bath that people can use. for 20 pounds you can chill there for 2 hours. we went to the rooftop pool which has amazing views of bath - the pools there are all naturally heated or something, so its quite nice. then we went to the hot bath downstairs for a bit. after that we headed off to the steam rooms - there is a big room with a shower in the center and four round rooms in each quadrant of the larger room which make up the steam rooms. they were intense. its weird when your breath is cool and refreshing. but i really liked them - especially the eucalyptus and mint room. we then returned to the rooftop pool for the remiander of our time.

after all of that excitement, we went to grab lunch (i had my first pasty ever, man the english eat healthy....) then we checked out the abby in the center of town which was beautiful and quite big (those catholics know how to build 'em). then we returned to the train to come back to london.



the past few days robbie and i have been hanging out doing cool things, including hanging out with tom - another camp kid (who, it turns out, lives a few train stops down from me, neato). so yes, thats my story. since its tuesday i only have class tomorrow then its the weekend again, sweet! it hardly feels like im in school (although i am, dont worry, tuition isnt being wasted or anything)

anyways have a lovely evening

ps. happy birthday jake!!