so im done with school. i finished my final essay on wednesday, turned them into my professors yesterday, gave copies to the international office today - so yah, im done. weird! its almost mid december and im not starting to stress out because of finals...i dont have any! its a weird feeling, but nice too

yesterday afternoon i went into central london with mary adn we walked around town, including going to the opera house to try and get tickets for the ballet on saturday (theyre doing sleeping beauty). however, its wicked sold out, except for two seats at the very top all the way to the side. they're "listening" seats because you cant actually see the stage. so instead we got tickets for the nutcracker on thrusday! sweet, so christmasy

we then went to arcadias uk office in nottinghill which was nice and everyone there is so friendly. we got the last two tickets they had for ice skating at the sommerst house for today! so yes, in a few hours i will be ice skating for the first time in years, yes!

that night we went to see 'billy elliott' which was really good. the music is by elton john, so of course it would be good. the kids were cute too - this is the first show ive seen here where half of the cast is under the age of 14, so that was cool. something that wasnt cool though was at the end of intermission while the band was randomly playing stuff, one of the guys playing the trumpet (i think) started playing a little bit of a song from 'spamalot' like their orchestra does when the second act starts. so that was mean of him, because then i wanted to go see ''spamalot''

so its friday today, which means that a week from today = my last full day in england! weird!