Greetings to my friends and family. This week's email is a much happier one and filled with pictures (and there was much rejoicing). The best news is that Brena came down from st. andrews and spent several days with me and of course we had an awesome time. She had a conference at the British museum last wednesday and needed to get education stuff from other museums in london for her project. Thursday we went to camden market and spent way too much time shopping, but it was fun and I bought an awesome hat. (see 1st pic)
Friday we spent ALL day in museums. We got to the British museum around 9am to stand in line to get tickets to see the terracotta army exhibit. It's a hugely popular exhibit since this is the first time the terracotta army has ever been outside of china. Pre-purchased tickets have been sold out since last march, but 500 tickets are available each day for that day purchase, normally they are sold out by 11am. The museum has also extended the exhibits hours so it stays open till midnight. We got tickets for 10pm. We wandered around the British museum, found some things that we loved and needed pictures with (pictures 2&3) then we had lunch and went to Tate Modern. We spent several hours there and were feeling a bit silly so we took a bunch of pictures with the large art instillation there now (it's a giant crack running the full length of the entrance hall). I have to admit that I was not a fan of the crack at first, but by the time we left it had grown on me, not for the artist's original purpose of course (which was something to do with political and social rifts), but as inspirations for our own artwork in photography. (pics 4-9 is only a small sample of the fun we had) It was some crackin' good times! After that we went back to the british museum to see the terracotta army (which was very awesome) and got home very late.
Saturday we got a late start on the musuem going so did not spend a lot of time at the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Natural History museum but still had a great deal of fun (pics 10-13)
Sunday I had to spend the whole day filming in the studio with my Video Tech 3 group so Brena and Jessica went off and had fun without me. Filming went ok. I do like the group I'm in, but it took us forever to get properly started and we each had to get a project done with setting up lights and props etc and the project HAD to be edited IN CAMERA which was SO FRUSTRATING so the end result was everyone being kinda grumpy and a so-so finished project for me. We watched everyone's films today in class though and mine was definitely not the worst project so that's comforting. I'll add it into my next email and you guys can judge for yourselves. The last picture is of Michael and his caterpillar cake that I told you about in the previous email.
That's my news for now, now I get to go work on my screenplay that's due wednesday!