Alrighty, a quick weekly update before the extensive stuff:
Monday – gross early class that takes forever to get through, got a email saying afternoon class was cancelled, so postponed my gym visit and did 1000 situps instead, watched a show before my noon class, then hit the gym, pizza night in the house (I gorged… again. oops), writing
Tuesday – slept in, 1000 situps, stupid convo (I'll complain about that later), talked about tentative plans for long weekend, gym, class, dinner, writing
Wednesday – no class, woohoo! Woke up for gym, didn’t feel so hot so I took a day off and only did 500 situps, then got pretty and ran some errands, checked out a hotel, bought Phantom tickets, went to dinner, went to theater with Jessica and Diana to see Phantom of the Opera– we had amazing seats (6 rows back, dead center, super cheap, show = win)
Thursday: slept in a bit, got my situps out of the way, had class, tired to go to the gym but it was packed, came back and watched Psych, had dinner, wrote, tried to go to bed early, but it was just a night of heinous loudness and events. Ugh.
Friday- I got 3 hours of sleep, went to my interview, got the internship (woohoo!), watched a show, did my humanities study guides, hit the gym, rested, went out clubbing- one of the girls knew a promoter so we got into some fancy ones for freeSaturday- super lazy day, ended up finally catching up on sleep, got some humanities studying done and watched The Brothers Grimm with some people in the house that night
Sunday- Chinese New Year in Trafalgar Square, delicious Chinese food for lunch, more studying, called it a night fairly early. Humanities midterm tomorrow- blegh
Alright, as my most recent blog updated (and from all the recent news) Egypt was cancelled. A huge bummer, because honestly- that would have made for an absolutely amazing trip. However, after a ton of deliberation (and some ridiculously long convocation conversations with the entire London group) we finally came to a conclusion! But first, let me just have a mini-rant about the aforementioned convocation. It was seriously amazing how some people in the group were so unappreciative of all the work that was being put into rescheduling our group trip- I mean, they were treating our program directors like it was their fault that Egypt decided to erupt in riots. I swear, sitting through that conversation in which people kept demanding money back so they could plan their own trips, as opposed to thanking our directors for all the work they put into planning for a new trip… ugh, it was aggravating and plain rude.
Anyhow, moving on. We’re over that.
So, the news? Well, our group is now going to Istanbul and Ephesus at the end of the semester! Seriously, I’m excited. We get to hit the Asian side as well, meaning- 2 continents! During this trip, they’ve packed it full of fun stuff, such as visits to palaces and mosques, a trip to Prince’s Islands, and Egyptian spice bazaar, and boat trip on the Bosphorus, a trip to a Turkish bath, and time in the Grand Bazaar. And that’s only about half of what is planned. Seriously, this is going to be a trip to remember and I can only give massive amounts of love towards our program directors who planned this brilliant trip on such short notice and so quickly. Anyhow, missing out on Egypt and the pyramids was definitely sad, but this is going to be a fantastic trip.
Talking about trips, I’ve got to plan my long weekend. Originally I was planning on just staying in London, but some people have recently planned Madrid and Morocco, which sounds quite fun (albeit a little shady what with Morocco possibly being hit with the whole Egypt-riot syndrome), but it’s an idea. Budapest was also brought up. Now it’s just finding a few people to go with on this trip… I’m keeping my fingers crossed that I figure this out soon. Any travel ideas? Let me know! I might just stay in London, too, since I'll be coming back for 3 more months...
Also this week- I had my interview at a literary agency for my internship when I return to London in May. Originally I was looking into publishing companies, but Jenny (basically our program director’s second-in-command) got me an interview with an actual literary agency. That is- these are the kinds of people I need to impress and get in with in order to publish my own books. So, after a horrible night’s sleep (as referenced above), I got ready, made it to my interview, which is in a lovely place called Covent Garden, and… got the internship! Probably one of the most exciting things that could’ve happened to me this semester, so I am extremely excited about this… especially since this will give me background and possibly an in for my own writing career. The agent that interviewed me was completely down to earth and even told me to send my stuff her way when it’s ready. Really… I wanted to do a ridiculous happy dance in the room right then and there. Anyhow, 2011 is looking to be a promising year!
Finally, went to Chinese New Year in Trafalgar Square. It was a fun little outing and a reprieve from studying on Sunday. Saw some fireworks, got some delicious food, saw some cool lion and dragon dances, and the likes. I like having 2 new years in a single year...
Anyhow, that's it for now! Tune in next week.
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