Today we started off the day by frantically ripping apart the aparment looking for our one roommate, Melda's wallet.We were trying to get out the door to go down and wait in line at the Royal Opera House in an attempt to get cheap tickets to see Macbeth. We ended up not finding her wallet, but we did find out that we didn't have to go down to the Royal Opera House until 3:30 to get tickets. I had class at 2 but my roommates were still able to get me a ticket later on.
For class today, we took a trip to Greenwhich (pronounced Grenich!) which was another part of town outside London where we got to visit things like the University of Greenwhich campus, the Maritime Museum (which was actually very pretty, and old!- built in the 1600s!) and we also were able to see the great Prime Meridian Line! The line that separates the two hemispheres, West Longitute from East Longitude. We all took a picture standing on the line, one foot in the west hemisphere and one foot in the east hemisphere, which was kind of cool.
After class I was able to meet up with my friends in Covent Gardens (where most of the theatres and the Royal Opera House are located). From there we all got dinner at a small Italian restaurant, got a little dessert, and then headed over to the Opera House. Once we were there we checked out the place, including the fancy bar, where I decided to "live in the moment" and get a martini at the bar (which cost me 5 pounds and wasn't even in a fancy martini glass!-totally defeated my purpose). Then we found our seats, which weren't too bad, just pretty high up. Macbeth was an entire Opera sung completely in Italian (which I guess I should have expected lol) so there were subtitles throughout the entire 3 hour show, but I was actually able to follow along quite easily! Since I read the play in high school, the story started coming back to me piece by piece as the Opera progressed.
I must say, we have been doing a pretty good job of finding something different and unique to do each day we've been here in London! Which is good, especially since tomorrow starts my internship where I will be working every day, and not have as much free time to do activities all the time. But I am excited for my internship, it sounds really interesting and right up my ally as far as accounting goes. It is a bummer though that I'll be working over 30 hours a week and not getting paid! I guess we'll just have to wait and see how it goes tomorrow!
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