LONDON SO FAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My blog has now turned into "My London Life" temperarily. But I don't wanna make another blog. So, anyway, you can read about London here, because it is, technically, still part of film school.

Anyway, London is awesome!!!!!! Absolutely incredible!!! And I actually recognize where I am in the city, which is an incredible feat for me.

Anyway, here's a run-down of the past week.

We got here last Thursday, and we walked around a lot. We got groceries, went to orientation, and then went to Leicester Square, a square with tons of "theatres" and "cinemas" and watched the celebrities arrive for the "Django Unchained" premiere. That was awesome. I didn't see very well, but I did see Tarantino up close. So that's cool.

The other female writer, Sonia, and I have our own flat, and all 4 guys are downstairs. Our flat is really nice, and we have 3 red British phone booths right outside our window. And when it snows, the snow looks awesome next to the red color! Colour, actually.

My classes are awesome. We have a lot of writing to do and a lot of watching movies, and they're just incredible. I forgot how much I love writing until now. I realized how incredibly much I've missed it!

So far, we've been to the British Museum, the London Bridge, we've seen Parliament and Big Ben, Westminister Abbey, and Hampton Court.

We went to Hampton Court today, which was Cardinal Wolsey's palace in the time of Henry VIII. It was absolutely, incredibly, beautiful!! It was snowing all day, so everything was covered in snow, and big fluffy flakes were falling. It was great!

Walking around the palace made me feel like I was living in the 1500s. The sound of the floor. The gardens. The snow! Everything! It was like going back in time. It was so, so awesome!

We've also gone to our first play for our class, The 39 Steps, which is a book and a Hitchcock film, so the play was a hilarious murder/spy mystery, and also an homage to Hitchcock. It was amazing. There was a part where the characters were on the run, and the Psycho theme started playing. And the play had 4 actors, and they all (except the main character) played every character, which was I guess like 100 characters or something. If not 100, then a lot!

Umm, what else? We've been taking the Tube. It's awesome. It's the Underground, which is the subway system here. It's really fast and I feel cool cause I'm taking the Tube. I feel like a proper Londoner.

So, yeah, it's been great. And I kind of want to move here! Seriously.

So here's some things I learned: there are these crossings that have black and white striped lights by them, and you just cross. And the cars have to stop for you. And these are called zebra crossings. But Brits say zebra like Debra with a "z." So that's cool.

Some slang I've learned or  words that are called other words are:

Advice- which is a receipt
Lead- a leash. Like "keep your dog on leads."
Spitting- drizzling rain
"Give me a bell"- Which means call me. Cute!
Note- A GBP bill

And that might be it so far. And I love "You're winding me up, aren't you?" Which is like, "you're messing with me!"

Oh, and we have tea breaks in our class. Where we take fifteen or twenty minutes and go get tea. Seriously! I love this place!