The past few days have been busy, full of events and activities, yet such blast. Wednesday was a basic old day of class, nothing too special, expect that we went over our assignment- a paper due the same day as two others I have. A little daunting that two of my classes, one right after each other too a significant portion of time to talk about these papers, both make up 50% of my grade, but it was good cause it really got me to kick start working on them. Today I did nearly half of my art and society paper, and am currently in the process of looking up a few of the 18 resources I need for my Olympics paper. They're coming along slow, but at least I have a head start. I'm forcing myself to keep working this weekend until I have at least 5 of the resources down...we'll see how that goes.

Thursday was excellent. I woke up to an email saying that my 2 hour seminar for the day was cancelled so I only needed to go to my hour long lecture. 2 classes cancelled in one week....I don't hate it. After class, I came back and got dressed because we had our tickets to see Matilda. The show was fantastic! Our seats were really, really up there in the theater, but we could nearly everything going onstage- well worth the 25 pounds. The stage was beautiful, the kids were great (over half the cast was probably under the age of ten) and it was surprisingly hysterical. It strayed a little from the movie, mostly regarding Matilda's magic tricks, but definitely made up for it in the casting. Mr. Wormwood was a hoot, and the Trunchible (played by a man in drag) was unbelievably funny. In the movie no one ever liked the Trunchible, but she hands down stole the show. I would absolutely see it over again- now I know why every performance so far has been sold out.

Friday day, like most other Fridays since I don't have class, was relaxing and pretty standard. Woke up, went for a run in the very cold weather, and began organizing my thoughts for the papers I'm working on today. Friday night Ariel, Mackenzie and I went to see a comedy show in Soho. The comedy club was located inside of a casino- Ariel and Mackenzie had to go through a long sign in process because they were under the age of 21, but me being the big girl I am got to go right on in. Overall, the show was pretty good. The first two were good, but the headliner- an 84 year old Jewish man, stole the show. He was a hoot, saying all sorts of things you would never expect and 84 year old to say. We finished our night with some Ben and Jerrys (a habit far to frequent) and called it a night. A good change of something new and different to entertain our weekend.

As I mentioned earlier, today was spent mostly lounging around and working on my papers. If I work for another hour or two, I'll be very satisfied with where I'm standing on them. The most exciting part of my day though just occurred! The weather had been calling for snow, and when I checked this morning it said accumulation of up to 3 inches! A rare occurrence in London. I was warned that people here freak out a little bit when it comes to snow, so I didn't think anything of it when I ran to the grocery store this evening and saw the roads and sidewalks being covered in anticipatory salt. When I came out half an hour later, it had started snowing! Absolutely beautiful and a total mood booster. It wasn't sticking on the road, but cars and my jacket were completely covered. It's supposed to keep up through the night and into tomorrow morning, and hopefully it does cause if it's going to continue to be this cold, I at least want some snow!

Tomorrow we have all sorts of Super Bowl plans. The game doesn't start here until after 11, and none of us have TVs, so we bought tickets to a sports bar down the road where they are showing the game and having specials all night long. We decided that before hand, around dinner time, we're gonna have our own Superbowl feast- we're talking nachos, chicken wings, and I'm attempting to make homemade mozzarella sticks. I probably won't stay for the whole game as I have class the next morning at 10, but I figure if I just stay until the halftime commercials I'll be getting my 3 pounds out of it. In other news, I heard from my Uncle Steve today, and he's gonna be in London this week! His wife Tatiana and him arrive Tuesday and will be here until the 17th so we plan on meeting up and grabbing a bite a night or two! Also, last night we booked Barcelona! St. Pattys Day in Spain, a little unconventional, but worth it if I can get somewhat of a sun tan!