21 January 2010

This morning was the last colloquy of the week - it's so hard to believe that we're almost done! We were discussing Virgil's Aeneid, and Epictetus's Enchiridion. Again it went half an hour over, but there was nothing wrong with that - it was a wonderful discussion! After that I practiced piano since I'm playing for chapel tomorrow, which was an epic disaster. (By epic, I am using it in the correct way: on a very large scale!) Well, the piano . . . isn't the best quality, by which I mean that not all the keys work, and it's so out of tune that an octave sounds closer to a major seventh! So that's pretty terrible, but I managed to get the chords figured out and written down. (The writing part was necessary since we don't have music for three of the songs and I had to figure out the chords.) After that I decided that it was high time I went out for awhile, so packed up and headed for Parliament. I took the Victoria tube to Victoria station, then walked down Victoria road to Big Ben and Parliament (and incidentally Westminster Abbey and the Thames - how did all the awesome stuff get in one place?). I got to Parliament and discovered that a large group of children were just getting ready to go in and I was advised to wait for about half an hour. So - half an hour to kill in awesome London! Not really a problem. I walked down the street to the bridge across the Thames, and just stood there looking out at the water when I was seized with an uncontrollable impulse to write. So I did, (see here if you're interested,) then went back to Parliament, discovered that pictures were not allowed (sorry)I just enjoyed the experience to the fullest - and really want to go back - and realized that the movie Amazing Grace really is rather accurate for how it works! That was fun. I then took the tube/bus back to Aberdeen Lane, and got home! An afternoon definitely well spent! GStQ