Thursday, September 28, 2006

Globe Theatre at last!

Well Hi there all you back home, we've been pretty busy getting settled, but not really doing a great deal, although I have been to the markets & we did get to see Shakespeare, 'Comedy of Errors' at the fabulous Globe Theatre, £5 for standing in the slums/peasants arena, & sore feet after the 2 hour show, but worth the effort. It was so grande to be there at last & see this famous & magnificent place & the play was well done, with good acting, a comedy with some laughs, pleasant weather, (luckily!) and amazing history. We went with our new house mate who is an actor & played one of the roles in Spain, so she really enjoyed it for many other reasons. We'll be back there for more I hope, but with everything else we want to do we're pushing it!
The markets are fabulous & even though I don't/can't spend too much money, (saving for the bigger trips), I enjoy just walking around watching everyone & checking out the stalls. They have great Punk/Gothic/cyberdog/funkerelic/alternative spaces & it's a hoot just checking it all out. The cyberdog place was really amazing & the clothes, music & effects are a sight not to miss, expensive, but looking like that doesn't come cheap!
I ran into an expo, London New Designers Awards, & saw some amazing, interesting, inventive, crazy, different, bizzare & clever stuff. Lamp shade made out of wooden pegs which looked really good, a plastic trolly which folded into a carry bag, all sorts of fancy designed chairs out of any material imaginable, innovative furniture & clothes & some great art work, some from glass that really caught the eye & imagination. So that was a great avo without Kyle as he can't cope when I spent hours looking at this stuff.
We got to Cambridge, but found it a bit uneventful, lots of people shopping & lots of universities, but not much else.
We've got a couple of weekends at home while we buy a few essentials, (at the market!) & catch up with our lovely freeloaders who put us up & say thanks. We're also saving as we want to head to Ireland when I get my first break in a couple of weeks, looking forward to that big time!
We love the area we're living in, great cheap shopping with Greek & Turkish bakeries, delies & groceries, a few good cafes, close to a huge park, (Finsbury Park), & 30 mins by bus to the city & 30 mins to my work, I drive now as it takes heaps less time than the bus & is even a bit cheaper, (hard to believe but yes!).
Work is going well & settling in ok, lots of work to organise now that I've worked it out a bit but we're doing some great things in the class which also make it nice for us staff: we've set up a breakfast club & a cafe in our room so we get to chill out sometimes with a cuppa, all part of teaching living &social skills & communication, that's the way to enjoy work!
Couldn't post our pictures of The Globe Theatre for some unknown reason, try again later.
Until next time take care, HAPPY 80th BIRTHDAY DADDY, HAVE FUN!!! Love Mazz & Kyle XXX

4 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

hi Mazz and Kyle, Dad says thanks for the birthday wishes he is off to watch the grand final (AFL) at Ians today with Ev and Roelie, mum says hi and thanks for your updates, all very interesting have a great weekend. Love hugs and kisses from us all

1:04 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hi Mumsy!!
Great to hear from you. The sites interesting as always. Can't wait to meet the fabulous mix of ppl in your house!
Dylan says Hi. He's excited for me about England.
Sounds like you're havin heaps of fun, which is awesome
Love you both so much!!!!

2:24 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Also, well done on the brekky/cafe. You really know how to make work fun!!
Love Cel

2:25 PM  
Blogger Mags said...

Hi Mazz,
its about time I posted you a commet! your blog is fantastic and between reading your blog and Erin's I cought the travel bug! you may have spoted my link from Erins page and already know about my trip to Vanuata.
Reading your blog Mazz especialy when things wern't going well with $ and you survived! and were having a great adventure. I began thinking about going OS. Then I got the offer to do the Vanuatu voyage and and nothing was goiing to stop me! it was an amazing experrince thanks for the courage your adventures gave me ...
Sounds like your current school set up is like the room i'm in most at Rosamond. http://thisislifeliveit.blogspot.com/
cheers Mags

6:51 AM  

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