Happy Halloween (ish)

I just got back from Stonehenge, which was great. The only problem was that the bus left at 8:45 am (clearly not an appropriate time to expect someone to be awake) and our tour guide really liked to talk........about nothing. So instead of instantly passing out as soon as I got on the bus, I got to hear the tour guide ramble on and on with such insightful tidbits as "Stonehenge is an incredible monument" and "It looks like all the Londoners are still in bed right now, but later they'll go get their Sunday papers.....that they won't finish reading until later that week!" Dear Lord. But after she eventually got tired of talking I zoned out until we got to Stonehenge.


It's such a weird landmark because it's in the middle of a bunch of roads......and also it's a bunch of rocks just arranged a pattern in the middle of a field. It was really cool to see, though, especially after all the new discoveries from this summer about how Stonehenge had been a burial site, how the stones probably weren't actually dragged hundreds of miles, and how Stonehenge is older than previously thought.


The reason I was so tired was because the night before my roommate and I had gone to a Halloween-themed British/European Pro Skateboarder Expo.


Really.

It was better than actual Halloween, which was a disappointment. People in England don't usually celebrate Halloween, and when they do it's nothing as great as it is in the US. But I did make sure there was Halloween-themed music at my work on Friday and "bloody" punch (made with Pepsi Max and some sort of berry syrup...very British-y).

My internship is going really well. The last week I was working on making a film for the game Wii Music that will be shown on the European Nintendo Channel on the Wii. In simpler terms, it's a video about a game that no one will watch. But here's the set:



And here's a boy getting his makeup done:


I got to be "Wii Music Band Manager," so I got to make the actors play these two songs (The Entertainer and Ode to Joy) over and over again for 6 hours. It was fairly torturous, but I can't really complain because I was just watching people play a video game.

When I don't go to my internship, I'm taking a class called "Architecture and Urbanism in London." It's great because we just get to walk around a lot and we usually end up at a museum so we can do that after class. Last week, in between seeing Parliament, Westminster Abbey, and Trafalgar's Square I saw the official center of London,


and the official measurement of a foot.


Good times.