Shakespeare Is SO Over! (025/365)

Day 25 Happy: Being done with my Shakespeare class!

I'm done! I'm done! I'm done!

I just finished the two papers that constitute the final exam for my Shakespeare for the Theatre class. While reading Shakespeare was pretty interesting, it was also intense. I had to read a play a week for four weeks, read a book about the life of Shakespeare and watch several film clips and rehearsals of different plays, and finally watch the entire four hour production of Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet (which I did not finish... but don't tell my teacher).

Now I just have my Adolescent Literature and Criminal Justice classes and my internship and I will have two weeks completely off from school in the middle of August before the fall semester starts!

On an even HAPPIER note, Marc and I are going back to the Wizarding World of Harry Potter tomorrow. We figured that we should have a little fun, because after tomorrow I will work (between my job job and my internship job) THIRTY TWO DAYS IN A ROW. And on the 32nd day, I will be flying up to Georgia to see my sister for a few days (and getting absolutely no sleep, I presume) before coming back to work another 8 or 9 days in a row. By the time my break rolls around in the middle of August, I am going to be one very tired little Kelsie.

But at least I don't have to struggle to read any more books that are written in Elizabethan English, pretending that I know what is going on.

Fun Homework (015/365)

Day 15 Happy: Watching movies for homework

This summer, I have three online classes, an internship and my full-time job. All I do is do homework, and go to work. One of my classes ends in two weeks, but that is the same week my internship starts, so I am not likely to see a decrease in work.

My Shakespeare class is extremely daunting. I have been reading a play a week, and reading about the life of Shakespeare. It is a TON of reading, and I have started to think in Elizabethan Shakespeare-type talk (which is pretty good, considering the first time I tried to read Shakespeare, I had no earthly idea what they were talking about).

This week we are studying Hamlet. We are supposed to be watching the Kenneth Branagh version of the play on DVD and reading the play. But... the movie almost EXACTLY follows the play line for line, so I am killing two birds with one stone and reading along as I watch the movie. It's actually a pretty good movie, aside from the fact that it is over four hours long. I only made it about halfway through for today, but I look forward to the supposed appearance by Robin Williams (as a court jester or clown, I presume). When you get to watch a movie, homework isn't as bad.

I am also talking to my little brother (who just said to me "yay spongebob, boo shakespeare") on facebook, which always makes me happy. I miss my brothers and wish I could see and talk to them more often. I can't wait to see them when I go up to Georgia next month when Lyndsey gets home from Italy. He just introduced me to the Banana Song, which I will have stuck in my head for at least the next week. Thanks Jake!