Midnight tonight marks exactly five weeks since I left US soil, and I find that very, very strange. It's funny (and cliche, but true) how so many things really have changed since that fateful day. I won't bore you with the details, dear reader, but I am pleased to tell you that these 5 weeks have been nothing short of magical.
But now let's cut to the chase; what I really want to do is tell you about a few things that have transpired since we last met. On Wednesday I saw a play called Disconnect with my theatre class. It was written by Anupama Chandrasekhar, a playwrite from South India, and centers on four telephone credit collectors who contact indebted Americans (while donning American personas) to attempt to reach payment arrangements. The play was actually really interesting because it centers around sub-cultural racism within Indian society in the face of globalization (which my professor describes as, essentially, Americanization). It's harsh and doesn't really hold back. The characters are so infatuated with "The American Dream" that they emulate the culture in any way possible through outdated pop culture referrences and overpriced status items like a D&G leather jacket and Blackberry Storm. In this unquenchable attempt to at least appear American they drive themselves into some of the very issues they are paid to keep Americans accountable for. In a word, it was intriguing. We discussed the play in class today and I was really interested...I think I might go back and read the script and I'm pretty sure it will be the topic of my first real assignment this semester!
What else? I went to the Victoria And Albert Museum on Thursday (bomb) and The Natural History Museum on Saturday. The latter was in a really cool building but I have to say, from what I saw (which, mind you, wasn't a WHOLE lot) it didn't have much on D.C.'s Natural History Museum.
Oh, and tonight I went out with my friends Emily and Joelle for a few pints with real working adults. We got into some pretty interesting discussions about global politics and the arbitrary nature of "nationalism." I have to say, conversations like that are always really fun for me when they happen but I can't really take part in them all the time. Maybe once every week or two I'd really like to engage in some hard core socially and politically minded intellectual stimulation....but mostly just Lost theories for the rest.
So that's about it. I'd like to think of this post as a few sub-posts. It clearly just shows that I need to update more often, but now it's like you have a week of highlights, right?
In other news:
-I get lost in Camden far too often on weekend nights
-Skins features some truly unbelievable music (and the show is awesome too)
-I have rediscovered my love for Broken Social Scene and am especially obsessed with Major Label Debut
-The Noah and the Whale show I was really pumped for is officially sold out. Anyone want to make a trip to Toulouse for plan b?
-Everyone says the Olympics were cool but I wouldn't know because our TV is busted. My landlord owes me some serious memories lost!
-La Salle is getting ready for Midterms. Ha, suckers.
I guess that's mostly it. I don't know....Screw Sidney Crosby? See, you could see right through the lack of enthusiasm, couldn't you?
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