Tuesday night we saw Twelfth Night with the same cast that we saw in Comedy of Errors. I was worried because I didn't like Comedy of Errors really. However, Twelfth Night was great! It was really funny and the guy who played Malvolio was hilarious! I think it was just that the actors were better for the roles they played in this one than in the other one. I really enjoyed it :)
Yesterday we had our last class. We took our finals and talked about some things that we've learned about theater and perspective from being here. It was really fun but sad at the same time. Then I came home and tried to eat up some of my food. Then me, Brittany, Brighton, and Holly went to see the matinee of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe in the 360 theater. It was pretty good. It was definitely geared towards kids but I was fun and they projected things on the tent all around the theater which was cool. I liked it but it wasn't in my top 5. After that I ran down to Picadilly Circus to meet Meghan at Goucho's for dinner. It was amazing! It's this super expensive place around the corner from Picadilly Circus and Meghan really wanted some steak so I went with her. I got roast beef tortellini and it was delicious! It was also the cheapest thing on the menu but I highly recommend eating here once if you have some extra money for a fancy dinner! It was so good :) Then we walked around for a little bit and went to M&M World and got some treats for our shows that night. Then I met Abby at Mama Mia and Meghan went to Les Miserables. Me and Abby were super excited about Mama Mia because we love the movie and we love Abba! And it was amazing! It was one of the funnest shows I've ever been to! There were a couple songs in it that they didn't put in the movie but other than that it was pretty much exactly the same. It was so much cooler live though. Then after the show they sang 3 more songs and every one got up and was dancing and clapping and singing and me and Abby were having the time of our lives! They old ladies next to us were singing along and they all had pins on that said "Laura's Hen Party 2012" and they were so cute! It was like being at a concert and I absolutely loved it :) Then when we came home we had a little dance party downstairs that included the Biebs, 1D, Abba, Ke$ha, and Miley. Haha, it was so much fun! Then some of us went upstairs and watched She's the Man while we painted our nails and talked. It seriously was so great! By the time I went to bed it was after 3am but it was totally worth it because some of us are leaving today so that was our last night all together.
Today I just packed and cleaned up and now I'm blogging so I can be all caught up before my two week trip around Europe. I won't have my computer so I'll blog about that when I get home. I'm going to miss London so much! I really don't want to leave and I'm going to miss living with such great roomies! Seriously, I haven't had this much fun with a group of girls ever in my life. These last six weeks went by so fast and I can't believe we are done! It's crazy. I feel like this trip has been really good for me, too. I was so surprised by how easy it was for me to make friends with the girls on this trip. I have had the hardest time making friends at BYU so I was expecting to just deal with the girls here and do a lot on my own. In elementary school I was verbally and emotionally bullied which made it really hard to make friends. So being in new social situations is really hard because I assume that people I don't know don't want to be friends with me. So going out to BYU all by myself was really hard and my freshmen year was the hardest year of my life. Over the past 3 years I've built up a wall and have made it really hard for people to get to know me. I do a lot of things by myself and the few friends I have I either made my freshmen year before the wall or I made by accident. This past year I've been working on trying to break down that wall. I just haven't been feeling like myself. In high school I was so bubbly and confident in myself and I'm sure if you told any of my friends at BYU that they would be surprised. Anyways, so I was assuming that coming to London would be no different than my past three years at BYU and boy was I wrong. I have made some really good friends and everyone here was so accepting of everyone. I think my wall has finally come down and I feel like my old self again. I haven't felt this good and this normal since high school and it's so great! Hopefully all of us will stay friends and I think we will because we've all formed some really good relationships. I'm so grateful for all of the girls I've met on this trip and the friendships we have formed :) Overall, this trip was really life changing for me I guess in a sense because I feel like a different person. But really I'm just back to being me :)
Also I've realized that my heart really does belong to music and the theater. That's where my passion is and I don't know how but I'm going to pursue my dreams :)
My knight in shining armor :)
This is Abby with "Cone-man." Hahaha, he sits on the street and sings songs through this big traffic cone and we've seen him almost every time we have gone to Picadilly or Leicester!
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