June 9

We had our first day of theater today and there are 6 people in my class, and 4 in her other class. She is from London, loves to talk, and she hates musicals, what?! It'll be a rough session. She sprung the news that we would go to our first of NINE shows that night, NINE! We also had to choose a play to do some presentation thingy on, so I chose Enron, because that's kind of tying actuarial science back to theater...kind of.

I also need to vent about this really, really, stupid kid in my class named Rob. He's really annoying and, gosh, he's so dumb. He though that he would be studying in Valencia in the summer, but Valencia filled up so he came to London instead. His parents, however, had already booked a flight to Madrid, so he was expected to fly out Thursday night. See the problem? How are you going to go to the show, and write a review on it, if you're not here, oh, and what about class the next day?! Stupid. "It was planned before I even came over here," so? "They won't excuse the absence," course not. "Maybe I'll just drop it," and take what?! Seriously dude, you're missing a whole class, that's 4 hours, you won't even be here on Friday, no on wants you in their class if you missed 1/5 of the classes already. He's dumb. I can't stand it.

The show we went to see is called The Threepenny Opera and it doesn't really have a plot, and it was really weird, really sexual, really vulgar, and super, super weird. The set was on a rotating stage, which was pretty cool, and the band was on stage the whole time as well. The set wasn't really a set, it was some plywood with paper, that they'd break through, and a staircase, and that's about it. Honestly, it was super weird. I enjoyed it, definitely, when I could understand their accents, but I noticed myself watching the background more than the main characters. That could just be the techie in me, though, but I really enjoyed how weird it was.