A small but eager Arvon reunion

Today, I continued working feverishly on homework for my "Story and Structure" course. Granted, this week there is a TON of work due: 2 character analyses, 2 monologues by two characters, 5-8 pages of a script, 5-8 pages of a treatment... All due Monday. I got the analyses and monologues completed and I sent them in already. I was concerned that I wouldn't have time before Monday to complete them, but I've already heard back from my teacher saying not to worry about being late. He won't count it against me. Thank you, Lord!

After I turned those in, Harold went out to buy some gloves (for what looks like a pretty cold time in Ukraine). We then headed out to Leicester Square and I met up with Nicky and Nicolle from Arvon. Nic called me to say he's developed a stomach "thing" and couldn't make it. He's really disappointed as he's been looking forward to this for weeks.

So, with Harold along, it was dinner for 4... Then after Nicolle left, Nicky and I went to look for tickets. I wasn't willing to see Spamalot for 60 pounds (one show for $120? In America, I'd expect that, but... No thanks). So, Nicky and I bought tix for Mary Poppins. I wasn't really looking forward to it, as my favorite bits in the movie are animated, but I was interested in seeing how they pulled it off. I thought it wasn't bad, but Nicky thoroughly enjoyed it and hastily bought the soundtrack. It's very different from the movie, and they even had the gaul to take out "I Love to Laugh." The very idea!

Anyway, I'm back in the flat now, and trying to mentally wrap my brain around the fact that I'll be in Ukraine tomorrow. This will be the first time I've ever traveled to a country without having a good command of the language. Well, I've been to France, but at least their alphabet isn't cyrillic and you can find out stuff in a hurry. Plus, the fact that it's so close to Spanish, I didn't quite feel like I do right now (on the nervous side).

Well, once there we are meeting a translator... But if he's not there, I don't know what we can do. We won't have a telephone with us. Our orange phones don't work in Europe because we have a pay-as-you-go account. For some reason that means we can't use the phones outside of the UK.

We won't have access to the Internet either, I don't think. Granted, we can find an internet cafe, but the keyboard will be cyrillic. Argh.

Enough of my moaning... You get the picture...

So, our adoption adventure is taken up several notches as of about 12 hours from now, when we're due to land in Ukraine.

More to come, but not until after Wednesday.

All the best, people.

D.