Student Union Tues. Nights

It was so horrible out yesterday that I didn’t venture outside until 8:15 pm. All around the town are umbrellas on the ground because they all were broken in the storm. The winds were so bad, and the rain came down all day!!
When we got to the Student Union, we joined Mallory, Erin, and Shannon at their table. There was a kind of “Whose Line Is It Anyway’s” skit being performed onstage by some students. They were very funny and are there every Tues. night. That may be fun to go to again. After their show, Megan and I went over to the Student Bar (yes they have a bar in their Student Center!! Crazy!) and we both tried this drink called the Filthy Flirt. :D It’s not as filthy as it sounds, it was one of my favorite drinks so far. But unfortunately it was 3 pounds!! Too bad I won’t be buying that too often. There were a lot of the ISU students, the Missouri students, and the ICISP students as well. Along with a number of British/ other exchange students too.
We ended up talking to a couple guys who are in my Modern Britain class. It was a lot of fun talking to them and we all decided to go to Witherspoons pub, since it’s right by school. We ended up talking about all kinds of things such as the immigration in Britain and America, driver’s license and how easy/hard they are, traveling, and school.
It was a fun night and I hope we have a lot more to come!
School wasn’t too bad today. British Lit. was fun because we discussed poems. We broke them down into the speaker, mood, setting, style, rhyme etc. Then we discussed Chaucer’s The Miller’s Tale and have an essay due next Wednesday dealing with the story.
Modern Britain was all right. We got to watch a movie that was somewhat biased on how great of a prime minister Winston Churchill was for Britain during WWII. In the discussion groups we talked about who Winston Churchill was exactly, how he made a good prime minister. Then we discussed people in America who had made that sort of impact or are viewed as hero-like in America. Martin Luther King, Abe Lincoln, and George Washington all came up. But we agreed that MLK was one of the top people who is remembered as being a type of hero for Americans.
Then class ended and the ICISP group met at Jim’s (one of our directors from IL) home for a spaghetti dinner. We were some what in groups just having fun and talking about some of the trips that we think we want to go on while we’re here.
Then a handful of us headed back to our homes because we stayed out a little too late last night. I met Katerina at home and I told her that Carol, Megan, Kathy, Shannon, Erin, and I were wanting to go to Deal on Saturday for the day. She told us we should look into using one of the buses or maybe a large taxi and go on up for the day. It’s supposed to be light rain and a little warmer than usual. So let’s hope so! :D
Katerina’s friend from Greece came to Canterbury tonight and will be staying until Monday. Her name is Joanna, and she is trying to arrange her classes for fall semester to further her degree in Film History. Right now she is a film critic for a newspaper in Greece! We talked a lot about the films she got to go see, Juno, included! She said she really liked it a lot and it was a lot of fun to just hear Michael, Katerina, and Joanna discuss movies. What they liked, what shots they thought were good, what film or plot they didn’t enjoy. It was very interesting :D
Now tomorrow is American Cinema, which we will watch ET. Hmm… not a big fan, but oh well. Then Ethics, is five hours from that, so I will probably go to the library and work on my British Lit. essay & read my book pages for Ethics. Fun, fun. Until then, I will talk to you all later! <3 Shannon