Oh Bugger, What a Week!

As I pop The Beatles' "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" into my computer for a listen, I feel this is a good time as any to relay the happenings of the past week.

I have a lot to say seeing is that it's been a while since my last post...I hope I can remember all of it.

I guess I will start with the earliest memory: So my school's "study abroad" program (not including European exchange students, odd enough) went on a day trip to Brighton, a city by the sea...i suppose that's the song "By the Sea" from Sweeney Todd referred to (courtesy of my musical theater friend, Ali), because there is no other evidence of beach life in England at all. It reminds me of Coney Island in that its one of those turn of the century towns re-configured in the '80s for tourists and has never been redone. Okay back to the story, so thinking we need water-proof shoes, I wear my sperry topsiders, heavy boating boots. Of course something has to happen to them. As expected while chilling by the ocean side with a few friends, a wave crashed into my boots, filling my entire show with salt water. I was forced to walk around Brighton and a little of Kingston in my bright red Virgin Atlantic complimentary socks, with little planes on them. Let's just say I can't wear those socks anymore :/
Other stories are shorter, I assure you...
Kingston has a really awesome underground live music scene, which is inspiring me everyday to pursue in one way or other some aspect of the music world.

In Harry Potter news: On a day trip to Oxford, I went to Christ Church College, the location for several scenes of the first movie. I have pictures (stay tuned for my pictures on facebook, they are coming soon).

So Finally this past Sunday, before catching the Second Part to Henry the Fourth (which in my opinion, despite my company's opinion, wasn't as entertaining to me as the first, although it did allow for quite a few laughs), my study abroad comrade and long friend from high school, Laura and I had lunch at Harrods, London's famous department store. After spending an afternoon there, I am quite convinced of its renown. THE PLACE IS A MUSEUM of expensive items ranging from clothes to food to furniture to anything you can think of really. I will go back, prepared with a camera and more money ;)

So there you go, woah, that was a lot. I'm seriously considering a different approach to this "blog" thing.
Well at least these happenings are entertaining my Swedish friend and flatmate, Cecilia a great deal.

Globe Trotting

I know I said I would only do a post a week, but I just can't keep this down for another minute.

Sooooo Saturday, as I mentioned in the video post, I went to London for the first time! I went with my school for an Orientation activity, in which we were split into teams and had to not only answer London trivia, but also find the landmark that went with the question and take a creative picture with it. After spending a good 4 hours just running to several locations around the city, let's just say, I appreciate tourists a lot more now than ever before. I thank all the locals who did their best to help my group.

As I have noted in my first post, one of my top goals while studying in England, is to cram in as much Shakespeare as I can handle, which includes viewing a performance at The Globe Theater in London’s South bank. The Globe Theater was in fact one of the original outdoor public theaters in Shakespeare’s time utilized by the companies who performed his works. And it so happens that The Globe’s season is almost over, seeing as that it is an outdoor theater.
Lately, I’ve been trying this new thing where I just do things spontaneously. Heck, why not, I’m in another country! So when the activity ended, I made the Impromptu decision to go with a few newly met friends to the Globe just to see if I could get to see a show before I cannot for a while. And sure enough, we got it only having to pay 5 pounds (don’t even ask me what that is in American dollars)! We saw Henry IV part 1 as a groundling! Groundlings were members of the audience that could not afford to sit in the seated areas and thus stood in the pit where they proceeded to interact with the players as often as they wished. A student pretty much shares the same salary as the groundlings back in the day, so my newly met friends and I saw this 3-hour (with intermission) play standing the entire time. It was worth it though. What I thought was going to be a very long and dusty History play (my first), turned out to be a well-spirited and entertaining show!
And just when my night could not get any better, who else was on the train, but none other than one of the actors in the show.
Yea, so I’m going back next weekend. I need to see the second part along with Merry Wives of Winsor and Bedlam (not by Shakespeare).
I know exactly what you guys are thinking, ‘Theater Nerd”, to which I say AMEN!
Well all I can say it keep on reading that is if this didn’t scare you off
All the best

Brit-eo 1

Keep Calm, Carry On Luggage

Welp, the time has finally come! Thanks to a really nice person who let me use his computer (since I am not paying for Wifi for 5 seconds pshhh) I am making sure that all of you (1 or 2 readers I'm assuming) have a new post to read.
The sun is coming on the New Jersey horizon, as I am waiting to board.  At first, as I parted from my parents to enter security, I had a huge pit in my stomach.  The only thing that was going through my mind was "WHY AM I DOING THIS?". But suddenly I sat at my gate and the first thing I saw on the Airport TV screen was TCM's Now Playing the Show talking about films from classic to contemporary and I automatically knew why I was doing this!
Now all I can think about is "British Theater and Performing Arts Here I Come!"
Alright I think I have used up this generous guy's computer enough...
The next time you hear from me, I will be in London
See You Across the Pond!
Your Blogger!

God Save the Queen...I'm Coming to London Town!

Mid 1960's, America had a British Invasion, in which some of Britannia's best musicians traveled west, "across the pond", changing the face of music as Americans knew it.
2010, I'm returning the favor! Well, with a more theatrical focus, I should say. This fall, I come to London (technically Kingston, which is only a short train ride away, I assure you) to study and take full advantage of the city that birthed English speaking theater.
What better place to find Shakespeare in the land that "kept his bones"?!
But don't worry your little heads, I'm not going to bore you with too much of my enthusiasm for the dramatic arts.
I also want to learn and experience music in the country that was home to legendary bands and artists such as The Rolling Stones, David Bowie, the Sex Pistols, The Kinks, Elton John, and the Beatles, to name a few.

At the end of my studies in London, I will be reuniting with my roots in Hungary.  While struggling to master my family's native tongue of Hungarian, I'll be interning with one of my father's closest relative on the ways of documentary film making.

My intention is to illustrate to all you readers out there what happens while I immerse myself in said medias along with my pursuit of other arts, enlightenment, history, TEA, delicious food, drinks, and Harry Potter!
(Don't worry, there will be plenty of picture and videos along the way)
And you thought I was leaving you all out of this...