There is so much for me to learn here.  So many new people, new things to do and places to explore, new fashions, new traffic, new accents...new to me, old to the world. 

This week I went to the High Society collection, a museum exhibit on hallucinatory drugs.  A lot of the exhibit covered things I'd learned about before (the opium trade between England and India during the colonial era, the prohibition era)...but with eye-popping posters and lots of equipment (needles, pipes, etc.).  It was a very crowded exhibit and I had a momentary thought that perhaps some of the younger Camden folks present were picking up tips...  (Photos: Prohibition Era flasks disguised as cigars, Moral and Physical Thermometer for Liquids, Assorted...)

 

The full-year students, Group W, performed a show this week called Product by Mark Ravenhill.  It was really impressive.  The work was well chosen and the acting was truthful.  The humor was brought out well by the physicality of the actors.  I was particularly impressed by Zuri and Mariel, who seemed the most at home in the environment, their voices, and with the humor.  Having been written by a British playwright, I'm sure the humor would have struck them more or less at different points than the American students.  Marina and I returned the second night it was performed to usher and, although we were not able to see the show ourselves, we could hear the laughter outside and the full-years said that the laugh lines were totally different the second performance. 

We went to a jazz club on Friday night where a guy Leo met last weekend was the DJ.  The music was techno jazz...not really my style...but it was fun!  I mean, we're a bunch of American girls in London at a night club on a Friday night--how could that not be fun?

This week we see Frankenstein, adapted from Mary Shelley's novel.  We'll also see another performance on Thursday and have a master class on Friday!  Also, we will be told what shows we will be performing in in April!  So there will be a lot to write about next Sunday!