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Thursday, October 23rd
Thursday mornings consist of my Art and Paper class, and today entailed the completion of my mica book and a little bit of marbling paper.
After class, got lunch with Cody, Rachael, and Michelle, and then we left for the Museum of London. Unfortunately, many of the exhibits were closed, however we were able to tour the four that were still available: London before London, The Great Fire of London, the Roman Galleries, and the Medieval Galleries. I really enjoyed this museum and its historical aspects, as it was really a walk through the timeline of London. We had to examine each gallery, and choose one section to write a paper on.
I particularly enjoyed the Roman and Great Fire exhibit. Here are some of the interesting things I learned:
London Before London
This exhibit had a lot of the prehistoric aspects of the city, and displayed items such as mammoth tusks and partial skeletons, tools, and fossils. I thought this poem displayed on the wall, was rather intriguing.
Routes
Time has frozen this midwinter night.
Outside, the pavement coated with transparent skin.
Inside, I retreat into down, sensing the vibration of polar sheets creeping south,
Burying us a thousand feet under blue ice,
Diverting the river out of the Vale of St. Albans into the London Basin.
Welcome home. Welcome first citizen, chasing reindeer over the hip joint with France,
Tropical and glacial cycles, waves of migrators-
Your long trek north, from below the Sahara, circling a campfire by the Thames,
The hair of wolves over tight backs; dread-lock beards, unpolished eyes, your slow heavy mouths chewing fresh rhinoceros, roasted; no spices.
Unaware that you are dislocating from France as you eat,
That the channel is rising, that my heated body floats above a London of birds and pine forest,
Of open grasslands where gangs of straight-tusked elephants gather in Trafalgar Square.
Hippopotami wallow in the brown marshes of Pall Mall and from Marble Arch,
I gaze longingly on sheets of marigold, meadowsweet, mint.
The Great Fire of London, 1666
The Great Fire is one of the greatest disasters in London’s history, and they really stress education about it here. It reminds me of growing up in Illinois and learning so much about the Great Chicago Fire with Mrs. O’leary’s cow. Here, the fire was not supposedly started by a cow kicking over a lantern, but rather by a baker on Pudding Lane. Houses were all built of wood, and incredibly close together, causing the fire to spread most rapidly. The careless methods of living did not help to contribute to a fire-cautious atmosphere either.
The fire started on September 2, 1666, and in five days destroyed 80% of the city. I also learned about how the fire helped to deplete the great plague, due to the decline in the rat population.
The Roman Galleries
In 54 AD Julius Caesar invaded Britain and took over soon after. The brilliance of the Romans has always fascinated me, and this exhibit showed their influence on London through technology such as paved roads, economics and trade, bridges, baths, entertainment venues, medical efforts, government structure and so on. They were so far ahead of their time, and I find it very interesting. This is the gallery I will be writing my paper on.
After the museum, we browsed through the gift shop, and left to head back home.
I started working a bit on my paper to try to get that out of the way, and Cody sends me an instant message asking if I wanted to go to Hairspray that night because we could get student rush tickets for only 20GBP. It was almost 6:00, so we quick ran to ISH to grab something to eat on the go, and jumped on a tube to the theatre.
As we were booking it down the street, my bag ripped and my sandwich flew out, still perfectly in tact however. I grabbed it off the ground, and Cody asked if I wanted half of hers of if I would eat it, ‘she wouldn’t judge me either way.’ Haha. I thought it was funny. I ended up eating it cuz I picked it up immediately and it was perfectly intact, and there was no way that we had time to stop for anything else. I think I did however bit in to a little piece of gravel toward the bottom. Haha. I’ll live.
We made it to the theatre, and got tickets in row J of the stalls. The seats were AMAZING! We were so close! I absolutely love the movie, and the live performance was awesome as well. The energy presented on stage was amazing, and I really enjoyed the intensity of the singing and the dancing. It was definitely one of those experience where I had so much excitement built up inside of me that I couldn’t find any way to effectively release it. And WOW- I don’t know what it is… but black people can DANCE! Whatever it is, they’ve just got it. It was awesome! By the end of the show, Cody and I were half jumping out of our seats we had so much energy to release.
We quickly got out of the theatre, and left for the back stage door in attempts to get some autographs on our tickets. We got nearly the whole collection: Seaweed, Link, Tracy, Amber, and Edna Turnblad (John Travolta substitute man/woman). I absolutely loved Seaweed, mostly because he was an amazing dancer. Damn! I’m still amazed at their dancing skills! It was also funny because we were talking with ‘Link’ for a few minutes as he signed our tickets and took pictures and such, and he noticed our American accents right away. During the show, he kept falling in and out of the British/American accent, as the story takes place in Baltimore, so I thought this was kind of funny.
We left for the evening to go back to MTH. What an evening... I love that show!
Thursday mornings consist of my Art and Paper class, and today entailed the completion of my mica book and a little bit of marbling paper.
After class, got lunch with Cody, Rachael, and Michelle, and then we left for the Museum of London. Unfortunately, many of the exhibits were closed, however we were able to tour the four that were still available: London before London, The Great Fire of London, the Roman Galleries, and the Medieval Galleries. I really enjoyed this museum and its historical aspects, as it was really a walk through the timeline of London. We had to examine each gallery, and choose one section to write a paper on.
I particularly enjoyed the Roman and Great Fire exhibit. Here are some of the interesting things I learned:
London Before London
This exhibit had a lot of the prehistoric aspects of the city, and displayed items such as mammoth tusks and partial skeletons, tools, and fossils. I thought this poem displayed on the wall, was rather intriguing.
Routes
Time has frozen this midwinter night.
Outside, the pavement coated with transparent skin.
Inside, I retreat into down, sensing the vibration of polar sheets creeping south,
Burying us a thousand feet under blue ice,
Diverting the river out of the Vale of St. Albans into the London Basin.
Welcome home. Welcome first citizen, chasing reindeer over the hip joint with France,
Tropical and glacial cycles, waves of migrators-
Your long trek north, from below the Sahara, circling a campfire by the Thames,
The hair of wolves over tight backs; dread-lock beards, unpolished eyes, your slow heavy mouths chewing fresh rhinoceros, roasted; no spices.
Unaware that you are dislocating from France as you eat,
That the channel is rising, that my heated body floats above a London of birds and pine forest,
Of open grasslands where gangs of straight-tusked elephants gather in Trafalgar Square.
Hippopotami wallow in the brown marshes of Pall Mall and from Marble Arch,
I gaze longingly on sheets of marigold, meadowsweet, mint.
The Great Fire of London, 1666
The Great Fire is one of the greatest disasters in London’s history, and they really stress education about it here. It reminds me of growing up in Illinois and learning so much about the Great Chicago Fire with Mrs. O’leary’s cow. Here, the fire was not supposedly started by a cow kicking over a lantern, but rather by a baker on Pudding Lane. Houses were all built of wood, and incredibly close together, causing the fire to spread most rapidly. The careless methods of living did not help to contribute to a fire-cautious atmosphere either.
The fire started on September 2, 1666, and in five days destroyed 80% of the city. I also learned about how the fire helped to deplete the great plague, due to the decline in the rat population.
The Roman Galleries
In 54 AD Julius Caesar invaded Britain and took over soon after. The brilliance of the Romans has always fascinated me, and this exhibit showed their influence on London through technology such as paved roads, economics and trade, bridges, baths, entertainment venues, medical efforts, government structure and so on. They were so far ahead of their time, and I find it very interesting. This is the gallery I will be writing my paper on.
After the museum, we browsed through the gift shop, and left to head back home.
I started working a bit on my paper to try to get that out of the way, and Cody sends me an instant message asking if I wanted to go to Hairspray that night because we could get student rush tickets for only 20GBP. It was almost 6:00, so we quick ran to ISH to grab something to eat on the go, and jumped on a tube to the theatre.
As we were booking it down the street, my bag ripped and my sandwich flew out, still perfectly in tact however. I grabbed it off the ground, and Cody asked if I wanted half of hers of if I would eat it, ‘she wouldn’t judge me either way.’ Haha. I thought it was funny. I ended up eating it cuz I picked it up immediately and it was perfectly intact, and there was no way that we had time to stop for anything else. I think I did however bit in to a little piece of gravel toward the bottom. Haha. I’ll live.
We made it to the theatre, and got tickets in row J of the stalls. The seats were AMAZING! We were so close! I absolutely love the movie, and the live performance was awesome as well. The energy presented on stage was amazing, and I really enjoyed the intensity of the singing and the dancing. It was definitely one of those experience where I had so much excitement built up inside of me that I couldn’t find any way to effectively release it. And WOW- I don’t know what it is… but black people can DANCE! Whatever it is, they’ve just got it. It was awesome! By the end of the show, Cody and I were half jumping out of our seats we had so much energy to release.
We quickly got out of the theatre, and left for the back stage door in attempts to get some autographs on our tickets. We got nearly the whole collection: Seaweed, Link, Tracy, Amber, and Edna Turnblad (John Travolta substitute man/woman). I absolutely loved Seaweed, mostly because he was an amazing dancer. Damn! I’m still amazed at their dancing skills! It was also funny because we were talking with ‘Link’ for a few minutes as he signed our tickets and took pictures and such, and he noticed our American accents right away. During the show, he kept falling in and out of the British/American accent, as the story takes place in Baltimore, so I thought this was kind of funny.
We left for the evening to go back to MTH. What an evening... I love that show!
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