British Museum

Turns out kevin spacey was meeting Willy for dinner. I’m a pretty good detective, living on baker street has worn off. Did the whole class thing yesterday, including a slight bit of homework. The parents came around 3:15 after class so we could run over to the british museum while it was still open.

I took them to the two main improtant things: the rosetta stone and the elgin marbles. They are quite astounding, but I am going to assume you know what they are to save me from rambling, since i am far behind on these posts (My sincere apologogies to you all, especially the rice girl). Then we wandered throughout other rooms of the museum until they closed at 5:30. We did see this really interesting sculpture made from the pith of reeds depicting some sort of Indian goddess, I believe. Her name may have started with a D( sarah rice this is where you come in and share the wealth of knowledge you have about a country i know nothing about). Anyway it was great. I also saw drawings by this man whose name I can’t remember besides the fact that I repeated it to myself a billion times…agadihr something? I shall look it up now. Avigdor Arikha. He was an abstract painter who started to turn towards realism later on in life, and though I don’t like abstract art (shocking I know, an art history major should be all over it), I really liked his newer work. He has a very interesting style. This is why I will not be an artist. I do not have a style, I merely draw what I see, and no matter how good or bad it is, we have photos for that sort of thing now. Reason number 345221 I should have been born centuries ago..in England.

We went to the museum tavern across the street afterwards and I had a chicken pie, quite British. Mom had fish and chips, dad had the roast of the day (chicken), and he also made friends with the Spanish bartender. Best of all though, was that this pub had a dumbwaiter! What a genious invention. That is something I want in my house. No matter how small it is, I want a dumbwaiter. Even if it just goes from the bottom to the top of my one room shack, it will be useful and exciting…for….changing light bulbs. Yes. And things of that nature.

After dindins, we went to Harrods, which is lovely but intimidating. We did not stay too long and we certainly didn’t buy anything. This is where I left the parents.

Laura then came over with her friend Caitlin who is staying with her for a while so we talked about London and life and crisps for a while, until they left and I began my homework. Then my other friend came because we need to start planning out our fall break. We are mainly going to stay in the UK, so if anyone has ideas on where I should go, let me know. As of now, i am making a pilgrimage to Doune Castle, where Monty Python was filmed, because, let's face it, i am a strange person.