How Many of the 50 States Can YOU Name?

This was the game of the evening last night, and I am pleased to announce that I was able to get all 50 in about 5-10 minutes… My wonderful British flatmates, however, took a full two hours between about 6 of them to get 48 states! And with a bit of help from me, I might add! I will say that I was thoroughly entertained, however. They were coming up with such states that I’d never known were states like… New England, East Virginia, Nantucket, and even Miami. Haha, we all had a good laugh at that one.

So school is in full force… kinda. I just finished my first week and it would seem that this semester is going to consist of me attending overly long lectures/seminars once a week and reading so many plays that I won’t know what to do with myself. Fortunately I have the next five or six days to read a play, Poetics by Aristotle, and memorize a sonnet. Oh, BUT, I’m so excited because I have an audition for a short play on Saturday! And I signed up for 2 more auditions so hopefully I’ll get cast in something! If I don’t, I think I might try to work backstage anyway and see if I can get involved.

I almost completely missed one of my classes today though. This was a bit of an adventure. So I was supposed to have my Classical Theater class at 2pm until 4pm on Thursdays and its supposed to be in this new little building that has been built on the FAR end of campus. It literally took me almost 20 minutes just to walk down there from my flat! So I get there right at 2pm, and no one is there except for this guy who’s in one of my other theater classes. So we start chatting and we’re both wondering where everyone is. Twenty minutes goes by and still no one has shown up. So we’re both getting a little bit worried and we look around in all the rest of the class rooms, but to no avail. So we go to the library to check emails and make sure we didn’t miss some important announcement, but again no luck. Running out of options, we go over to the Literature office, the professors office, and finally the office of Undergrad Programs. The nice guy there, who had no idea what was going on, suggested we go check the drama studio. So, by this time its about 3pm and we’re walking to the drama studio. In the drama studio we find a piece of paper saying that the Classical Theater class is in the green room! So we both walked into class an hour late! It kinda sucked, but at least we were in it together.

Everything else seems to be going well. I’ve been getting along splendidly with my flatmates. Last night, me and a few of the girls all shoved ourselves into my dorm room and attempted to watch Gosford Park on my laptop. Haha, shoving five of us on my bed that’s just about the right size for me alone was quite amusing. It was good bonding experience, though. And then we ended up talking to these guys through my window (I’m on the 3^rd floor) who were walking around in the street outside. The only reason they caught our attention was because one of them was dressed up in a cow suit! Why, you ask? I have no idea. I don’t think he knew either. It was funny though, because he heard my accent and immediately said “you’re not from around here!” To which I promptly replied, in the worst and most posh British accent I could muster, “Oh but I am! I was just affecting an American accent!” I don’t have any idea if he believed me (probably not) but we all got a good laugh out of it. Anna and Emma were telling me that they can hear themselves starting to get a bit of an American accent already. I’m spreading the American love!