time for a breath!

hi! now its spring break and the last week i've been so busy with my major project and sherlock Holmes i've barley had time to breath much less sleep!( i did sleep but ya know not as much as i'd like) actually last sunday it was so weird i couldn't sleep at all, maybe i got an hour of sleep but it was horrible! i went to bed at a normal hour and just couldn't get my brain to shut up! but that is beside the point
last week was woman in white which i finished on time!! this week was Jack the Ripper and the hound of the Baskervilles and the last day of classes. with the last day of classes we all had presentations to present, a visual narrative. she gave us the project really early in the semester so i had a long time to prepare for it. unlike most times i actually worked the whole time on it, well once i figured out what i was going to do that is. they have free newspapers here and so i decided to use parts of the newspapers in my project. the class is a Gothic literature class and the project had to deal with the themes of Gothic that we saw the most, and the one i saw and wanted to deal with was appearance vs reality, also when i decided to use this theme we had only read Frankenstein which was very much appearance vs reality; but when your working from a newspaper that's kinda hard to portray. i still collected newspapers so i had this huge stack of them in my room, i called myself a newspaper stalker because every time there was someone with a newspaper on the tube i would watch them hoping they would get off the tube before me and leave their newspaper. i felt very creepy. my friends helped me in that some of them that had internships where they would go by tube would bring back the metro because that was a better newspaper then the evening standard, even though they were essentially the same thing. the evening standard is kinda a sensational newspaper which is unfortunate for the people since thats the newspaper most people read but it was good for me. like i said earlier appearance vs reality is very hard to portray out of a newspaper and that was what i wanted to work with, so i had to change my theme none of the other themes seemed to work except the theme of death and the dark side of human nature. this one was perfect at least at this time because of the rebellions in the middle east and how Gaddaffi was killing off all his people and being so bloody. i had so many articles they probably would have covered a rather large bulliten board but since i did not have that large of a space i had to cut the articles down to main points and headlines. in realiy the main prolem i had with this entire project is that they do not have walmart or target or even k-mart here, therefore to find a good board for my project i had to go to so many stores and then i had to go to even more stores to find sticky notes and tacks, for my project i had decided was going to be like a crazy conspirators wall you know where they have newspaper clippings all over the place connected by red string? well that is what i went for just on a much smaller scale, even though i would have loved to have done something that big i just didn't want to pay for something that big. my end project i thought was pretty amazing unfortuantly i didn't have any red string i only had black well one of the other girls let me use some of her black string so that was what i used so i didn't have to go and pay for it somewhere else, they really need walmart over here it would have made it much simpler. the end result looks pretty cool and i might get a picture of it and put it up soon, but that is mainly what i did last week.
one other thing well this was actually when we were on spring break, my jeans decided they wanted to finally get a hole in them but instead of in the knee which i could patch easily they decided to get a hole in an unfortunate place that i could not patch so i had to go and buy some jeans. at first i was lost and confused with their sizes but actually it is much easier then at home! i think it was the second store we went into the first was Prymart which is supposed to be the cheapest but there were so many people it was utter chaos and when we did find the jeans they were all skinny jeans which i didn't want, so we left and the next store we went into ended up being the store i bought my jeans in! when we found the jeans they had two numbers on them one that looked similar to our sizing and another that i found out was the length, when i found a good dark pair that looked about my length i also grabbed my size i thought and tried them on, they fit so perfectly! they are the right length and so far they fit around the waist without a belt! they are long enough which is almost impossible for me to find!!! we shall see how they do after this week of hard wearing, i don't have enough space or weight to bring another pair of jeans so while i'm on my trip these are the only pants i'll be wearing...
which brings us to my spring break trip!!!! i'm going to Ireland!!!!!!!!! so excited! i'll be flying into cork early tomorrow spending the day there and then on st. patricks day i'll be taking a bus up to dublin and meeting with my cousins there and having major fun going to belfast for a day and a half then back to cork to fly home/daniel house (home in london)! i am very supper excited i can't believe that in just one day i will be going somewhere i've wanted to go all my life! so now i must finish getting ready and i will be writing on a notebook to tell you of all the wonderful things i find in ireland! get excited!
from london with love