"Jenna Goes to London" Comming to a Theatre Near You

don't even believe the stuff that happens here.

This seems to be the week that everyone comes to visit because its spring break time, so things have been a little crazy around here. Last night, Everyone started to get ready to go out clubbing (like usual). I had a sore throat and a stomach ache... so I really wasn't going anywhere. After everyone was good and ready, they left and I started to crawl into bed.

Shortly after one of the boys from downstairs, Matti, came to check on me. Not even five minutes later there is a knock on my door and open it to a girl hysterically crying. I know this girl only on a first name, passing in the hallway type of girl, and shes not exactly my favorite girl either. None the less, she needed to go to the ER because she had an ovarian cyst burst and I was the one she wanted to come with her. So of course, I'm panicing, and Matti's like ill go call a cab. So the three of us went. They took her right away and started all these tests. Me and Matti sat in the waiting room for three hours before anyone told us anything. When we finally got to see her, she was hooked up to an IV, pretty much passed out in a gown, curled in a ball on several pain killers, laying on a sheet with blood on it. Me and Matti are quite the comedians so we did our best to entertain her until the nurse came back and said they needed to do another pelvic exam. As we walked out, Matti's like.. wow I'm impressed, I didn't think you could handle that.... and of course I started crying. sigh i was really scared. She looked pretty bad and they just kept talking about surgery and appendicitis and I don't know. Well we sat in the ER for two more hours until they released her with pain killers for the night so she could return the next day for more tests. We start to walk home in the freezing cold in the early evening... and this is where Matti informs me that my shoes are on the wrong feet. I guess I'm just not that good in the state of emergency.

Earlier that day, when I went downstairs to go to class, I find my classmates running around like trapped mice in the dormitory. In order to get to the rest of the buildings we each have to swipe a card in order to go around these caged turnstiles, and they just weren't working. All the doors are locked until 9am, so one of the people that work the front desk were like ... here go out the window...I was like??? yea,... whatever.... but we did and then had to come in the main entrance of the building to get to the refectory and class.. ughh

Last night I saw this play called Man Of Mode at the National Theatre. We got off at the Embankment tube station and walked across the most beautiful bridge I've ever been on. The site of St Paul's Cathedral and the London Eye were amazing. We walked passed the coolest skate area under a parking garage along a strip of really nice shops.

We met with the marketing directors about how they market their plays and how we think they could market these plays to teenagers. It was very interesting being in a board room at the top of the National Theatre.

The play was an extremely modern, flashy version of an old British play. It was hard to follow because not only were the British accents so harsh, it was in OLD British. My professor said some of those words probably don't even exist anymore. It was pretty good though.

The kids from UNH (Matti and gang) went to see Equus, the play that has harry potter in the nude. Monmouth wants to go see it, but IDK how much I wanna see a psycho erotic play about a boy and horses.. I just don't see it.

The night before that I traveled to Covent Garden to see Gershwin's Porgy and Bess. We were in the Balcony straight over the stage. It was weird looking down, but it was fine. The first half dragged a lot, but the second half was really good. That's the play that has "Summertime"as its' theme. It was a sad play about a poor black country town, not at all what I expected.

We leave for Milan next Thursday, so I wouldn't be able to talk to you guys again until the 17th. After Milan we are going to Venice and then Rome. From there we are flying to Athens and then taking a cruise through the islands. Right now I feel pretty sick but I am hoping to feel better soon.

Hope everyone else is doing well. Happy Spring Break.

Love Jenna.