A Cultural Day

Today began by waking up to find out information for Mamma Mia. We found out that there is no student discounts, but if you go the day of, you can get cheap tickets the day of as long as you are in the front of the line. We decided that next Wednesday will be the best day to see it. Afterwards, we went by STA to find out travel information and then to see about Phantom of the Opera tickets. Jordan, Amanda, Natalie, and I then walked to Trafalgar's Square to enjoy our lunch on the steps outside the National Gallery. It was such a sunny and warm day today! We then decided that it would be nice to walk to Big Ben to get to the Thames. Our final destination was the Tate Modern Gallery to get to Art History class. As we were walking to Big Ben, we saw the street that the Prime Minister lives on and we saw the War Cabinet Rooms from WWII. It is so cool to realize how close everything actually is once you are walking and not riding the Tube.

Natalie isn't in the GST class, so we took her on the Thames walk towards the Tate. It was such a great day to take a walk today. Once we were across from the Tate, we got to walk over the Millenium Bridge, which is a walking bridge over the Thames. We got to the Tate early, so we decided to find a place to get dinner. We walked by the Globe Theater (YAY!) and found a nice cute restaurant called Pizza Express that we would go to after class. We then walked back to the Tate Modern and had class. The Tate is arranged thematically instead of chronologically, which bothered me a bit because I like things organized and in order. There was some great pieces of art there, but there were a few that just puzzled me, but I guess that is how it is in a modern art gallery. Overall, it was really interesting and I enjoyed most of the things that I saw. We ate at Pizza Express where I got a pepperoni pizza and we got gelato for dessert (amazing!). After dinner, we rushed over to the theatre and saw the play Over There. The playwright is called the bad boy of British theatre, so there was a lot of controversial issues in the short play...a bit of puzzling, awkward, and hilarious scenes, but I thought the guys did a really great job. I have class until 12:30 tomorrow and then I plan to come back to the flat and try to get a lot of work done. I really want to have a laid back weekend before Spring Break in ITALY!