She Works Hard for the Money

That's right! I finally started working for real! Yay! I'm a substitute teaching assistant. I started today in a preschool; it was really intense. Lots and lots of children who spoke a ton of different languages (none of which was English). They were really cute, though, so it was fun. Tiring, but fun.

In other news, I went to the Opera on Friday. It was Turandot, and it was really cool. The music was great, but I especially enjoyed the scenery and costumes. And, then, there was the dancing. For the most part, it sucked. It was full of slow attitude promenades and grand plies in fourth. However, every now and then, they would throw in these great gestures and moves that totally reminded me of enfab. I wished that they would have run with that instead of psuedo Chinese dancing (the Opera took place in 17th century China, btw).

I got to take an indepth tour of Westminster Abbey. We got to hear behind the scenes stories about the lives of previous monarchs and their tombs. We also learned about the history of the Abbey (like why it's an abbey and not a cathedral - no bishop with his official cathedra/chair = no cathedral) Why do I love British History so? Wow, I'm sorta dorky, but we all knew that, didn't we.