The First Week

So I've completed my first week of classes and also I'm trying to put off my homework (even though it's 1 am and I should definitely be working on it) so guess what that means? New blog post! Yay?
Everything is going pretty well. I've got my first bit of homework due tomorrow in my Scene Study class--we're focusing on Christopher Marlowe's Edward II and my homework is to write what happens in scenes 12-25 (or whatever scene the play ends on) from the perspective of one of the characters. I'm interpreting that as meaning I should just write a monologue that's just devoid of motion. I'm probably wrong, but whatever-monologue it is!
Honestly I'm loving it here and I'm loving my course so far. It's really great to be surrounded by a group of people who will go from fawning over Marina Abramovic one second to discussing Tom Stoppard the next. I've not had that happen in a long while, so I'm cherishing now that it's happening. Plus some of the people I've met here are willing to go see Madame Butterfly and Die Fledermaus with me, which is wonderful! I've not been to the opera in far too long.
It's interesting too that some of the things I've been learning are very similar to what I learned at Gustavus. Especially cool is that our work in my Acting and Voice classes thus far overlaps a great deal with things Henry taught me in my acting classes at GAC. So props to Henry (and GAC in general) for that!
As for what I've been doing here aside from classes, I must say I've had quite a fun time. I went to a street food fair in Shoreditch with some friends I met at International Orientation and managed to mind some real KC Barbeque! The guy who made it was even from Kansas City and went to school in Lawrence! It was all very exciting and delicious. Unfortunately it was served on a bun and either I accidentally ate some of the bun or the sauce had gluten in it because I ended up waking up at 6am the next morning having a terrible gluten reaction. Not as bad as I've had before (THANK GOODNESS) but still not a pleasant morning for me. After the food fair, some of us went to meet up with a few of the lovely kids from my course at a pub. I enjoy it when we all go for drinks together--it's nice to get to know my classmates in a non academic setting.
Sunday was then spent recovering from both the previous night and from my gluten reaction, thus I got nothing done. Today was far more productive though--I set up TWO new bank accounts so now I can easily access my money over here, I got my homework done (well, I will before I go to bed), AND I booked a ticket to see the American Psycho musical in December (which reminds me, if anyone knows of a person with spare tickets please let me know--I've a friend who would appreciate it!).
I'm excited for this upcoming week--one of lectures this week is going to be lead by the Senior Reader at the Royal Court Theatre and our homework was to come up with two questions for her. One of mine is going to be "Will you please give me a job?"
I may even come prepared with my CV just in case. Who knows.