look forWARD, live for NOW: January 2010

So, I'm sitting in an Internet Cafe. Along with Cat, Teresa, Andrea, Erin, Paul, Lars, Travis, Adam, and Jordan. I think that's all. We kind of took over the place. Anyway. Queen of Tarts. De-freaking-Licious times two. I'm going to try and re-count all I've done, so this is going to be a long post. just skim it if you want. But here's a quick rundown of what we did. With a longer rundown following

SUNDAY:

*Breakfast

*St Patricks

*Christchurch

*St Patricks

*Irish House Party

Monday:

*Writers museum

*Guinness Factory

*The Bacchae

*Out to a Pub

Tuesday:

* History Museum

*Yeats

*Trinity College

*Queen Of Tarts

*Called mama (Happy Birthday!)

*NAP TIME!

*Glengary Glenross

\*Out to a Pub

Wednesday:

*Workshop at the Gaiety Theater

*Lunch at Queen of Tarts

*here.....

After staying up late, probably at some pub Somewhere. WAIT. I remember. We saw the seafarer that night. (saturday) I do believe. Anyway. It was brilliant. Wiat. Or was saturday the Pub Crawl. I think saturday might have been the pub crawl. Either way, both things were cool.

SUNDAY: (Jan 10)

11:15 Service at St. Patricks Cathedral. Pretty. (I went with Lars)

The afternoon was spent touring the different churches, first Christ Church and then St Patricks. Again, Pretty.

Irish house Party all the way across town. It was fun. Thank you Paul Richter for getting up and dancing, because if you hadn't Brian Wouldn'tve and we would have missed out. That night I just stayed in, I think. It was nice. I took a long bath and shower and it was beautiful.

MONDAY: (Jan 11)

Writers museum. Cool

Guinness Factory. We all got Pints and sat and looked out at the beautiful skyline. So that was fun. By "we all" I mean all of us except Jackie. And also by "got" I don't mean finished. I drank a third of it and then gave some of it to Kristina and some of it to Joe. I'm not a big fan of the guinness. I feel like a blapshemer saying that but whatever.

\i believe this was the night we saw The Bacchae. Yes. Yes it was. And it was interesting. Because, well... The space was really cool. And it was really cool to see a greek play. unfortunately... I felt as though the production seriously lacked a unifying concept. It was as though in the rehearsal process, they would stumble on something and be like "Oh that was great--Keep it!" or "Oh wouldn't this be a great idea." the answer to that was of course.... no. sorry. I mean the chorus was really cool. and the way they told stories was really cool but... I don't know. I'm still processing

That night, Jordan, Dylan, Joe, Adam, Lars, Myself, and Clare tried to go out to a pub playing ska. We walked in any everyone stared at us, told us they were done in five minutes, so we turned around and left. We then headed down to temple Bar and to a place called "the porterhouse". Its this really cool bar that is on the corner building of a street. Its like, Three stories, but the way its built is really cool. All three floors have a rectangle shape, but, there is a chunk in the middle missing. There are staircases on either side, and a platform in the middle for a band. The band can be seen from all three stories, so that's fun. Met this crazy girl from Chicago, and a group of Guys from Toronto. So that was fun. Ask me more about that story when I get home.

TUESDAY: (Jan 11)

Woke up, headed out. We went to.... where did we go?? The Yeats thing and then----OH. First we went to the National History Museum. Saw a bunch of old preserved bodies. Creepy and cool at the same time.

Then we had the performance of "I am of Ireland"--a solo/bio piece about W.B. Yeats. Um... There was a huge fiasco getting that all figured out. Brian had reserved these seats for us a while ago. We get there, and another american group, with the exact same number of students as we have, had walked in and taken our seats. it was an understandable error. But when this other american group found out they had taken our seats, apparently they were incredibly rude. Which is bad. and mean. |I only heard second-hand what they had said.... but whatever. So they had to squeeze the rest of us in and we had to wait until after the thing to eat.

After the yeats thing we went to Trinity college to check out the Book of Kells.--if you dont know what that is.... look it up....I went there last year with sara. seeing the videos of how they make the books are just really cool. Even more than the books though is just the epicness of the library. I walked up there and I felt like I was Belle after the beast gave her his library. Its beautiful. Just books upon books and ladders and busts and..... beautiful.

After seeing the Library, Clare, Kirsten, Kristina and myself headed back to the hotel, with the intention of stopping in at the Queen of Tarts to get something to go. We got in and sat down and....didnt move. We decided to just eat there. Queen of Tarts is some of the best food I have ever had in my life. I had a Salmon and Leek Tart, which came with side salad, potato salad, and bread. Then I ordered an Apple Crumble to go. It was beautiful. Literally. It looked beautiful. Then I called mama to wish her a happy birthday.

Back to the hotel for some one on one time with my bed. aka I took a nap which was fan-freaking-tastic.

We went out to see a female version of Glengary Glenross. Or however the heck you spell it. I was skeptical. Not skeptical for the woman thing, I just generally dont like Mamet. BUT. It was fantastic, I thought. The way dress was used to suggest power, and the fact that the most powerful woman in the play was wearing a sexy skirt. Those cross sections of power are very....erm..... interesting. (BTW--lars is busy putting up videos he has been taking)

Afterwards, talking to the cast, one of the women--who is actually the producer--invited us out for a drink with them. We headed over to their pub and ordered, then sat down by ourselves, as they were talking to thier friends. After a while we made our way over to their group and started talking. Well, the lead dude from "The Bacchae" was there. The first thing he asked me was

"So were you in the half that liked it? or didn't like it?"

That's one of the more awkward things ive ever been asked. I kind of just smiled and said I enjoyed it. Because I did. And he was referring to his show, not glengary. I just think its so important for us to go to things like that, because...well... it just is. We dont see classical greek theatre in seattle. We jsut dont. And I love london and dublin and these bigger cities where experimental theatre happens. It's so important for us to be exposed to that.

Anyway. We continued to talk. And told the actors about our trip and where we were going. We mentioned that we were heading up to Belfast. Probably ot the best decision. This led to almost an argument about divisions between the north and the south, and also someone mistaking when Ireland became a country. And not realizing that they were occupied ofr 800 years. and.... yeah. it was awkward and embarassing.

We went back to the Hotel, and Jordan, Travis, Joe, and Myself stayed up. I got out my apple crumble from the queen of tarts and we ate it together. It was nice to just sit up and talk with everyone.

WEDNESDAY (Jan. 13)

Early, early start. I had to be up and ready to leave by 8 30. completely hard for me to do. Because I love my sleep. But it was fun because we went to a workshop about improvisation at the gaiety school of acting. kristina and i did a scene where the problem was she had really bad gas. we also did a really cool scene that involved everyone not knowing what was going on. I loved it. SOOO anyway.

\afterwards, a few of us got a tour of the smock alley theatre. its the oldest original theatre in europe. and it was amazing. I can't even describe it. Being here, being where people have touched and breathed and lived in these buildings that are hundreds of years old is such a ....spiritual....experience. Like.....the energy of standing there, knowing other actors sat there and acted and played and...... I cant hardly explain it. and its like that with other places too. Like trinity library. Just so cool.

Lunch at queen of Tarts again. friggin cool. and delicious.

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So. Well. The wierd thing is that every play we have gone to has had someone in it from the HBO show " The Tudors" It's wierd.

Tomorrow is a day off and then we get to go out and explore the country. I'm excited.

I was talking to Jordan and Lars, and I asked them what is one thing they want to do while they are here. We all agreed that we just want to sit down and have a conversation with soemone. Like, a quality conversation, and just meet some people. That's why I've been going out. Its such a huge part of the culture. Drinking is a part of it, for sure, but drinking is not the point. Its socilaizing. there is nothing similar in the states. Bars, maybe, but pepople go to Bars to drink, and that is not why I go out to Pubs.

I think I should sign off now, but thats my long, long update. Sorry it was so long, and maybe boring. Whatever. Congratulations if you got this far!

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