happiness in concert and grass form...

matt berry in all his glory...whata man, whata man!!!!!

ok so, since coming to england i have acquired a taste for certain british things like tea, corny english soap operas (hollyoaks), public transportation, new ways to say 'garage' and 'aluminuim', and ENGLISH COMEDY SHOWS!!!!!!!

so since being here i have become huge fans of the mighty boosh (which is nothing new if you have even glanced at my blog before), the it crowd, snuffbox, and garth marenghi's darkplace. basically everytime i watch these shows i cry because i love them so and they just make me laugh. ok enough of that lets get down of the heart of this blog.

the day that my mom came (oh yeah my mama showed up on thursday..she got here fine and yeah!) me and some people had tickets to go see a concert in central london. the guy doing the concert is in basically all 0f my new favourite shows and we were all pretty positive that his friends (all his co-stars in the shows) would show up to support him. WE WERE SO RIGHT!

me and richard ayoade (he is in the it crowd, saboo from mighty boosh, and garth marenghi) he is half norwegian...we totally bonded!!!!! ( and the it crowd is coming over to the states, and he is the only original cast member going with it....)me and rich fulcher!!!! basically the most amazing ever. he is bob fossil and other characters from the mighty boosh and from snuffbox.

these pictures arent the best...but they will have to do. the cast of garth marenghi on screen with matt berry singing in front of them, so brilliant.matt berry is known for his powerful point...and as you can see he is doing it in this picture. the power of the point is unreal. and then there is rich dancing on the other side with no skill at all...and thats what he is known for!

after the show we waited around to see if we could get matt berry to sign our ticket stubs and take a picture...but alas he never came out. he gave us the slip. but that was ok because we had met two other BRILLIANT people...oh yeah. so after the show we bebopped over to trafalgar square because....

THE CITY HAD LAID DOWN SOD IN THE WHOLE SQUARE TO PROMOTE VILLAGE LONDON!!!!!!! it was brilliant! it was so insane to see grass in trafalgar, it made me soooo happy!!!!!!

so we went there and hung out for a bit there were people everywhere just haning out on the grass, we basically thought it was awesome!

hanging out on the grass...looking cool!!!!

trafalgar in the day time. the grass was only there for about 2 days to promote something, they also put a beach in kew gardens....london is genius, crazy...but genius!thought i would throw this one in as well, mama and drury lane. do you know the muffin man?

ok so this blog is all over the place, i know. and i know many (or basically all) dont care that i met these people...but believe you me, my life has been changed!!!!! ok so now my mama is here and she is gonna be hanging out with me until i leave london... thats a long time, good thing that my sister and dad come in a week to take us away to italy for a small tour of the country!!!!!!

ps. i still have 2 exams to sit for, hopefully i have time to study and pass, thank goodness i am on a pass fail system!!!! and mary is coming soon as well, on TUESDAY!!!! yeah oh yeah...and we are gonna go see wicked again with my mama! oh and i saw mary poppins in the west end last night...and i am pretty sure bert winked at me at the end of one of the dance pieces, and he was goooooooood lookin!

school.....school.....school....and wait, yeah.......more school!

things that sum up my life right now:





1.rain
2.school
3. odd sleeping habits
4. the start of a cold
5.school
6.school


basically if you havent caught on. i have a lot of school work that i have to do. classes are over but i have papers to write and finals to take. basically my life for the past week has been trying to write this paper for my politics in the uk class. its only supposed to be 1500 words but for some odd reason i CANT for the life of my write this paper. i end up just blankly staring at my computer screen and next thing i know 5 hours of my life has passed and i have one word on my paper done. its odd. FINALLY yesterday after just looking at my computer for 4 days without any progress i pounded out 1000 words of my paper. so odd. so once i finish up my paper today i am gonna turn it in tomorrow and then i get to begin studying for an exam that i have the day that my mama shows up!

gotta love the fog.... thanks to everyone who thought that i took this picture!!! you are too kind!

anways other than this my life is not exciting at all, i have been having really weird sleeping habits lately that are a hard to shake. ONE night i had too much tea before i went to bed and it made me stay up unitl like 4 in the morning and get up at noon....and now i cant shake that stupid pattern. it only takes one time to do something like that. everytime that i set my alarm to wake up earlier to try and reset myself i sleep through my alarm or hit the off button and not snooze....oh why is this my life???

oh actually this saturday i have a friend coming to visit, his name is alex and i have known him since high schoo. he is a german kid that came to study abroad in bozeman and jessica and i befriended him and now that i am over here he is gonna come visit. if i had been planning better i was gonna go visit him, but knowing me i never got around to it while jessica managed to see him thrice!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! goodness, i dropped the ball on that.

ok well i better get back to writing my paper on ireland and the good friday agreement with tony blair!!! hopefully my life gets more interesting and i can inform you all about it!

my time in england is winding down....

howard moon...jazz maverick. basically this is my desktop wallpaper at the moment. all my icons are in the right hand corner in a sort of pyramid style. its pretty brilliant. i thought you would all like an insight into my life...

ok so! as you all now i am finishing my time here in london, tear. but as everything comes to a close i get to celebrate and have fun! i officially ended my classes this past thursday, it was very anti-climatic. but it feels really good to be done with classes, now comes the hard part......

EXAMS... but thats another story for another day.

so i guess the real news is that after we finished our classes on friday, may 4th, we took (lack of a better word) booze cruise up and down the thames. it was brilliant. it was a four hour float up to hampton court palace and we turned around somewhere...maybe around teddington and then flipped around and went back past kingston and went up the river farther. it was so much fun! it was almost all the year longers and then a lot of spring semester students. right away we were not fans of the spring semester students, i mean we all felt a strong bit of seniority over them all...and just yeah. and a big bonus was that we were even fed dinner, you cant beat a good plate of fish n'chips! genius.
philip (my instructor from first semester and 1/3 of the study abroad staff), me, and amaya on the yarmouthe belle

jen montague another third of the study abroad staff showing her gangstah side....

us floating by hampton court palace, for anyone that i have taken to hcp you will recognise this as the part that king william of orange had redone from the tudor style by sir christopher wren...and i am a loser. hey anybody watching the tudors on showtime or hbo??? its a goodn'!amaya and myself dancing to YMCA...could we be any cooler? the answer is of course no....you can not be.dancing with the advisors...jen, philip, and amayajen and i doing a brilliant dance move...dont be jealous, its not worth it. you cant recreate this sort of magic!

so anyways the boat trip was a huge success and it gave us a chance to say goodbye to some people and finally be on a boat on the thames cause for about 9 months now i have been totally jealous of everyone else who gets too....now i wont be jealous anymore cause i have done it too!!!!! good for me! anyways sorry this blog is kinda lame but oh well...its better than nothing right?

my next few weeks are gonna be filled with getting a paper written and studying like a fied for my exams before my mama gets here on the 24 may. anyways i hope everyone is enjoying spring!!!!!!!!!

(what a lame ending)