Contemporary class started today! The teacher went really fast and expected you to know basic ballet. He was like do this, then go to first position, then second position, blablabla. I was like…I don’t even know what those positions are. And I kept falling out of the positions cause I wasn’t used to it haha, but it was really hard to keep up. I wish I had space in my room to practice, but I barely remember the technique part of the routines, so I guess I’ll just see how it goes next class.
We had another potluck with the international people and sooo many people showed up with dishes such as philly cheesesteak, Chinese stir fry, Spanish omelette, Japanese rice balls, tiramisu, and even bubble tea! Eating all of that made me so happy LOL.
I also went to Voom Ka street dance and it was so intense as well! I missed the taster and first session, so they pretty much already learned 30 seconds of it. She went over 30 seconds of choreography (about 6x8 counts) once, and then watched us do it. I was so confused haha, I think I looked retarded because I couldn’t keep up. I guess it’s time to learn it on my own to show them I’m not that lame next time hehe.
Leeds Castle
This was such a fail day in terms of transportation, but I feel like it’s the pattern whenever Susana and I travel somewhere. We are such bad luck; I bet the whole terrorist thing in Europe is because of us too…haha jk.
Leeds castle is one of the prettiest castles in Europe, so we thought we should go. The drive there would have been 1hr30min, however with public transportation (bus), it took us 4 hours to get there and 3 bus changes. We went from Brighton à Tunbridge Wells à Maidstone à Castle. It was a really nice day when we got there, the park where the castle was at was gorgeous. We visited the inside of the castle, which was really modern.
The castle was built in 1119 but went under many reconstructions and add-ons. Lady Baillie was the last owner of this place. Originally from America, she bought the castle 1926 for roughly 14million pounds (if you convert it to our times, and if I remember correctly). This is so cheap for a gigantic castle! However, the most money she spent is renovating everything. When she died, she left the castle to the Leeds Castle Foundation, where the castle will be preserved and used for the public. During her stay, she enjoyed collecting all different kinds of birds, her favourite was the black swan, so now it is a simple of Leeds Castle.
On our way back is where our good luck ran out. The last bus that was supposed to arrive at 5:30pm actually didn’t show up due to reasons unknown. We walked to the nearest hotel and asked for another bus that drove us into Maidstone, which luckily came an hour later. So we rode that to Maidstone and was going to catch the 7:10pm bus to Tunbridge. And…that bus didn’t show up as well. We waited till about 8:20pm to catch the bus to Tunbridge. When we arrived at Tunbridge it was already 9:30pm and no buses were running to Brighton at that time. Instead, we had to walk to the nearest train station and take the train back. Because it was already about 10pm, a lot of trains didn’t run anymore. We ended up taking many trains from Tunbridge à Tonbridge à Some city I forgot à Gatwick Airport à Brighton. It was so lame because Tunbridge is only 40min drive and the train took us 2 hours! We pretty much went all the way up to almost London and all the way back down again to Brighton. We made it home at midnight after riding the bus from Brighton to Sussex. The trip back took us 7 hours when it was just a 1hr30min drive.
Phew! So much public transportation in one day! And so expensive too…
Sunday was an event I’ve been really excited to participate in: Brighton zombie flash mob. It is one of those things you see on youtube where random people start dancing the same dance in the middle of a congested subway or street.
We went to Concord 2 to learn the dance, it was to Thriller and the theme was zombie. All the moves were so funny and easy to coordinate. We will be performing it on October 30 in front of the pier where there will be lots of innocent people enjoying their weekend (hopefully). Then, the three professionals will break into the dance, followed by the rest of us (I’m guessing around 200). This should be so much fun!
After this, we went to play badminton, and after that headed to a pub to eat a burger. We craved meat that day is why we had to go out haha. Susana and I both had a “Texan Chili Burger” and it was pretty good! The meat was slightly over cooked, but we were so hungry it didn’t matter.
I guess that’s pretty much what happened that weekend. Oh, and I also finished physics hw really fast this time, improvement!
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