The Castle and the classes

Sorry that I have not posted in roughly 3 days. It was just that Monday was not very exciting and I felt I could give a blurb about it on Tuesday. However I got back to my room and didn’t really want to write. So now it is Wednesday night and I want to go to bed, so I forcing myself to write for everyone is you know what is happening and so I don’t have to write more on Thursday. I have mentioned that my blog was going to be semi-daily….

Monday- Well we started the day with class and this time it was Drama and art. I can say I have learned more about Vincent Van Gough then I have before. I liked the way that it was presented… Any way after class, plans are made by the minute. Nothing is really set in stone… However Hana, Claire, Chris, Emma, and Jessica and I wanted to try to do some souvenir shopping in Brighton. However we found out that there seems to be more London things then Brighton, Oh well. Because Monday was so beautiful we actually went to the beach and went in the ocean!!! Not far but the waves made sure you knew who was the boss. After getting stones in our flip flops, we were meeting the other half at the Marina. So we were going to catch the #7 bus from the pier. However we walked the wrong way and just ended up taking a forty minute walk to the Marina. It was like a long walk up in Michigan expect we got lost at the marina since we were trying to get to the Casino and the McDonald’s but somewhere took a wrong turn. After meeting up with the group , then splitting up again (I really did not want to gamble and some others didn’t want to either) we all met up again to go to the Pav Tav (Royal Pavilion Tavern) to have a night out. The girls last week met a band there and the band said they would learn Katy Perry’s “California Girls” so that our girls could perform their remix “Brighton Girls.” Well they performed however that band played loud and I don’t think the mics were on…

Look I'm in  the ocean!!

Chris, Emma, Jessica, Hana, Moi

Tuesday- Was our last official day of class. We did Theseus and the Minotaur. I love Greek mythology and I knew this story.  We did things like what would it be like on the boat and what does it look like to be both victory and despair? We were let out of class early so we could get lunch and get ready to a Castle!!! If you go to England, you just have to go to a castle! Well we did. We drove for about an hour and a half to Bodiam Castle. It was very border line magical! There was a moat with ducks everywhere! Also in the moat is a fisherman’s dream. Huge fat, 2 foot long plus carp live there. HUGE!!! After staring at the fish and ducks fight over bread we walked across the bridge and entered Bodiam Castle. You can go in the remains and up to the towers. To get up you have to go up steep winding spiral staircases that can really only allow one person to pass at a time. Also attached to the wall is a dinky metal pipe railing. If you fell and grabbed that, I’m sure it could probably come out of the wall. It was amazing. On the way out I noticed the family that had entered after us: the family with 2 boys and one on a least. Well the older was “walking” the younger boy. I will give you this before castle pictures….

Shh! don't tell but I was sneaky Paparazzi!!!

The girls and Chris in front of Bodiam castle!

Really big Fish!!!

This is looking up, I think...

Some rooms in the castle

And Finally Today- Yesterday Dave had asked us to come meet him to discuss our final project with him. Since everyone called spots my group went first. We then went to “class” where we worked on the project some more and then showed Kate and Dave, testing the projection screen. Later after lunch and debating what to do we went, yep shopping agin. However I think at this point we are all shopped out. I never knew that was possible. We have gotten to the point where we really don’t know what we are doing anymore. I am sure there still is a lot of fun things to do in Brighton but we stopped looking. Speaking of looking this city still has surprises, even if they are subtle, for us. All you have to do is walk in a different direction.After raving about Harvester’s to group all 12 of us were going to meet there and meet Liz’s parents who are here. However since we were meeting at 6, my group still had sometime left so we sat on the beach, watched the billions of seagulls and listened to the annoying carousal organ music. After dinner, a hamburger, my group got together and finalized our project.

Before I go I keep forgetting to tell you that I have roughly been near 3 celebrities.  So you all ready know about Nick Jonas in Les Miserables. However the first celebrity we saw was when we were going the London eye. We are very certain we saw Penn from the magical Penn and Teller act. (I did see a sign advertising to come to their show). Since we were walking past we really did not stop and just sort of assumed it was Penn. I am going to say it was because he was sounded like Penn and had the pony tail. Penn was chilling out against the bridge in a blue shirt.  So I am just going to tell everyone I saw Penn. (Hey Everyone! I saw Penn from Penn and Teller in London! No sigh of Teller though…) and today we walked past a line to get into a Tony Hawk exhibition along the coast. Sorry did not see him just know that he was here. Well things do not get any more exciting… Actually I’m sure they will, one more field trip to go.

Looking down at me!