I'm so excited about my project for American Postmodernism. I get to color. I'm also watching a lot of fun movies like: Alice in Wonderland, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, The Matrix, as well as, looking at poetry, literature and art from the post modern era. Here are a few of the entries I'm working on at the moment: (I really like my Alice in Wonderland entry)

It is the busy time in the semester. However it doesn't seem as busy as normal, probably because I don't have garments to do and boards or art projects to construct. It's still warm here, I can still wonder the streets in town in my flip-flops. :)

I've also decided that I really like cooking and can't wait to have my own kitchen. I've made dinner for other people twice recently, once for the guys (Aaron, Paul, and Cheese) and once for Aaron and his girlfriend (Lucy). For the guys I made pasta, with spicy tomato sauce and cheese, steam heated some veggies, made some toast and cut up a baguette and melted cheese on top of it. Then for desert we had the left over cake that I made for Megan's Birthday when she was here and some cookie dough ice cream.

For Aaron and Lucy I made spicy Mexican fajitas. Aaron and I got 4 chicken breasts, 2 green peppers, 2 red peppers, 1 yellow pepper and 2 white onions as well as salsa and a packet of spices/tortillas. Aaron cut up the chicken while I cut up the peppers and onions, then I threw as much of it as would fit into my frying pan with a little olive oil and cooked it until everything tasted done. We had some left over peppers and onions, in the future probably 1 onion, 1 red and 1 green pepper would have been about perfect. It was good though, I am going to have to make these when I get home. :)

I did use some of the extra veggies and onions last night, I made pasta, and sauteed some of the peppers and onions with a little bit of olive oil, salt and pepper. It was also good. :)

Unfortunately I keep burning myself when I cook, I've burned the my right hand a couple times on my fingers on either the frying pan or the toaster and today when I made grill cheese I burned my lip and one of my fingers on the cheese. :( Ah well... everything I've cooked thus far has turned out ok so that's always a plus. :) I also have gotten really good at scrambled eggs. I should try different things, expand my knowledge and I'm sure I will be making dinner for the guys at least once or twice more.

I'm thinking and I mentioned it to Aaron and Cheese that the guys and I should take a picnic (as in pack a picnic) and go out to Herne Bay in early december. :P It might be cold but it would also be nice to see it... lol.

Also I was thinking of making homemade chicken noodle soup at some point. But along those lines, maybe if it gets cold we could have a soup and grill cheese night. :)

But before I go planning too many dinner parties and social engagements (speaking of which at some point the guys and I are going to see Tim Burton's Nightmare Before Christmas, Rocky Horror Picture Show, and the New Christmas Carol Movie that comes out November 5th) But as I was saying before I go planning too much I need to get this work load done. This weekend: I have 7 entries in my reflective log to do, 6 papers to work on, 4 articles to read, some drawing to accomplish and some movies to see. :)

So I think that is all for now I should definitely get back to work. (It's so hard to get motivated these days)

On completely unrelated note I did purchase from a street vendor a nice blue and silver belt today. :)

Also, Also on a further unrelated note... I had an amazing dream last night and even though I was woken up at 8am this morning I just went right back to sleep and back to the dream again. And it seemed so real if only it were possible. sigh...

Alas now I must insist that I do some work...

I booked my Hostel... for Paris.

Now I just have to decide what I am going to see in the 3 1/2 days I am going to be there. :)

List of Paris Attractions I want to see:
Louvre Museum (9 Euros)
Museum of Fashion and Textiles (8 Euros)
Arc de Triomphe
The Palace of Versailles (16 Euros)
Notre Dame Cathedral (7.50 Euros)
Bateaux Parisiens River Cruise (11 Euros)
Eiffel Tower (stairs to the second floor - 4.50 Euros, Elevator to the top 11.80 Euros)
Palace de Bastille (? Euros)
Champs Elysees
Red Light District
Moulin Rouge
Place Vendome
and probably many more which I will research later. :)

There is trouble in river city as the saying goes... you know like Harold Hill, Music Man kind of trouble... except mine is always the same, it's boyish trouble... sigh... what's a person to do... I suppose I should just forget about it, what do you say to that....

Anyway, I have booked my trip to Paris, all except for the Hostel/Hotel, I just haven't found a decent location-price ratio yet... I'm super excited though. :) Look at me telling you all about it when I haven't even told you when I'm going. Silly me... :P

I leave Wednesday November 25th in the afternoon. I take a bus to London, walk to the train station (Kings Cross... yes I will take a picture of Platform 9 3/4) and I catch the Eurostar around 6pm where I shall arrive in Paris around 9:15pm. I am staying until Sunday morning 11/29, where I will catch the Eurostar around 9:13am and arrive back in London around 11am. Then hang out until 5pm where I will catch the National Express bus back to Canterbury.

Still need to find a Hostel for Saturday.

Anyway... I just need to stop thinking about boys... and this weekend I'm going to research and write papers... :) Then next week is reading week. :)

I'm presently Planning my trip to France. :)

It is occurring the last weekend in November. I am going to take a Bus to London Wednesday evening. Catch the Eurostar Train at Kings Cross Station (yes I will take a picture of platform 9 3/4) and arrive in Paris at some hour of the morning on Thursday. :P Depending on the hour I might watch the sunrise over Paris. Then I will be spending Thursday and Friday with Liz and Adi. Saturday I shall probably be on my own, and then I will head back Sunday morning. Spend some time Sunday with Liz and Adi in London before catching the 5pm bus back to Canterbury. :)

It sounds awesome. :)

I want to try and see:
Eiffel Tower
Basilica
Champs-Élysées and the Arc de Triomphe
Notre Dame
Louvre
Red Light District
Versaille
and probably many more sights...

Hello again,

Wow I feel like I have not written to you in quite some time. Well Megan came to visit this week and I have now been to London twice. :)

Megan arrived last Saturday around 3:30pm and so I did a bit of shopping and browsing around beforehand. We then went to London last Sunday for Brunch with Jean and Adi, which was really nice. Brunch was excellent, though I do not think I will ever get used to the English breakfast... it is just too meaty. We then walked through Hyde Park which was massive and nicely manicured. I really liked the Serpentine, and we saw Adi's chairs which apparently you have to pay 1 pound to sit in, ridiculous. Adi then took Megan and I to see Buckingham Palace, which as you might imagine was gorgeous and had copious amounts of beautiful architecture. :) (All that gold) He left us at Piccadilly Circus, which is a huge multi-street intersection with a cute statue of a cupid type figure in the sort of middle which our guide this past Friday told us that it is the meeting spot of lovers. From here though, Megan and I made our way to the Pedestrian bridge which crosses the Thames and there we saw the London Eye, Big Ben and Parliament. We also saw where the Aquarium is and The art museum was displaying the Dali exhibit at the time, which would be cool to see. We then crossed another bridge and walked right next to Big Ben and Parliament, saw Westminster Abbey and then made our way back to Victoria Coaching Station (which is where we took the National Express Bus), via Starbucks of course.

Megan came with me to all my classes, she found Shakespeare and Ethics to be the most boring probably... but that doesn't surprise me because the way shakespeare is taught and the fact that we are studying Romeo and Juliet at the moment (it is understandable) and ethics, well that whole subject is a bit dry so...

Speaking of classes... I have do some reading today for American Postmodernism, We are watching R&J tomorrow and taking notes, Ethics I need to look at Blackboard and probably read/take notes, British History I need to determin what I am doing my 2000 word paper on and what subjects I am using for my inclass essay, then I need to research. Same goes for Modern Britian, I need to decide my second 2000 word essay topic and begin researching.

Well anyway, this past Thursday, Megan and I spent most of the day shopping... though I did show her around the Cathedral which she like me thought it was extremely gorgeous. :) But we did accomplish getting gifts for people and I actually found gifts that people would probably really like. (so when I get my allowance not this week but next week I can go ahead and buy stuff again)

Friday I went to London again, with my group for our required field trip. And I have to say that it was not as cool as when Megan and I went, and I'm not talking about London... because London in my opinion is a really cute city. But traveling in a group is really not possible. So I look forward to going back on my own. I want to go to some of the museums since they're free. :) And I would love to do a bit of shopping here and there. I did get a cute Guardman Bear and I named him Phillip. :P lol.

I baked a cake when I got back from London on Saturday and Megan had made me dinner which was super sweet of her... and on a side note when I have a kitchen, cooking is really relaxing and enjoyable. (so far, everyone ... which is mostly Megan.... loves my Cooking) But anyway back to Cake, It was a chocolate Cake with Vanilla Icing and I used blue piping icing to write HAPPY B-DAY MEGAN and draw crazy designs around it. :)

We didn't do much yesterday, got to sleep in, had cake, Megan packed, we walked around town, Megan picked up some last minute things and then we trudged with her suitcases down to the Bus Station... After I put her on the bus... I came back here and relaxed. :) (She should be flying out in less than two hours, I have hope she has a good and safe trip home and I'm glad she came to visit. :) Thanks Megan for visiting.)

Anyway, that's all for now, going to get dressed then probably head into town.... return library books then do some browsing. :) Later, must clean, read, laundry, etc...

And by today, it is now yesterday and I mean today or (when I wake up after this nice thing called sleep) So in between my cleaning, figuring out plans for Paris next month, reading, and laundry I will write to you and hopefully work on writing captions to my pictures as well. :)

Goodnight.