i can't believe

that I'm going to London on Saturday!
I'm stoked!
even though someone is being skeptical about it but you know what, this trip includes 1) me getting costumes for my photo class 2) fulfills my "Journey" prompt for my Mixed Media class, 3) I already have planned out my Time Arts project 4) Tom is fine with it because we're looking at paintings 5) Martina is also fine with it 6) We're going to the Tate and to 6 or 7 other huge galleries/museums and doing educational things. Hopefully we can go to the wartime museum because after the speaker today I feel like I need to go see their Holocaust wing. Speaking of which, we are also going to go to the Royal College of Art to re-meet up with 2 of the speakers we have had here so far, which also happen to be my 2 favourite lectures to date. 11 am and I'm sitting wide-eyed with my mouth slack and my jaw clenched shut, rock music blasting in my ears and being unable to tear my eyes away from a looped video of the Zapruder film of Kennedy being assassinated.

What a way to start your morning.

Also saw a slide show on the Polish Majdanek Concentration camp near Lublin, where I feel I need to go at some point, somehow, before I return to America. It's hard to look at, but as Nigel said, it shouldn't be forgotten. His slide show also included close up images of men mid-fall who had leaped from the world trade center towers.

anyway, I guess I digressed, but it's not like this trip is for shits and giggles. We're actually doing art-school related things 80-90% of the time, and that's good enough for me.

Laura gave us free coffee today because she had leftover she was going to throw out anyway (in the cafe) so that was nice.

Oh, so last night we went to the New Hotel so I could buy Harris his pint I owed him for helping me with my art project. We got there at half 7 so were the only ones there, which was actually nice because we spent about an hour and a half talking about art before some people from Orchard House showed up. Aiden came too and I have some nice conversation with him and Philip. They came back to Maries House with us to see if people were up. Most were watching a movie but Amber and Beki came down. Beki gave Amber a haircut so now it's short on one side and long on the other with a rat tail in the back. We went back to the Blue Door so we could watch Leprechaun in the Hood with Ice-T haha. It was pretty... well, you can imagine haha.

This morning I watched the sun rise over the mountains and it was pretty surreal.

Nigel was an amazing speaker, as I said, and I was pretty riveted the entire time.

I had lunch with Morgan and Noah, which was rather pleasant.

I'm going to meet up with Stephanie on Monday for lunch/tour and then at 7 Jaime, her boyfriend gets home from work so the 4 of us will probably go out for a bit. Fiana also said she'd text me to meet up and I think she's fairly in the same general area, so that should be nice.

well, we'll see how it all goes