Look at me! I'm cultured!

Over the past few days, I've felt more and more like a habitual big city dweller. We take the underground just about everywhere, so I'm feeling very comfortable with it. There are far fewer truly scary people on this one than New York's, so I think that helps. I'm trying new foods, like Indian and Lebanese and fish, but I draw the line at prawn crisps (potato chips) I go to museums just about all the time, which I am loving. Provo needs big cool museums. I am aware that BYU has museums, but trust me, they are not this awesome. On Friday, we went to a play at the reconstruction of the Globe and watched as groundlings. The play (A Winter's Tale) was great, and the funniest part was when the minstrel started hitting on Leslie, the engaged girl in our group. She turned bright red and started pointing at her ring. Shakespeare is definitely meant to be watched, not read. It was soo much more interesting this way. Yesterday, we did the coolest thing. I live right at the edge of Kensington Park/Hyde Gardens, and yesterday the BBC put on a huge concert there. Officially it was 20 pounds (40 dollars), but we decided to just hang around the outskirts and listen. It was raining and there was lightning, but that just added to it. Highlights: Andrea Bocelli! Right there! Live! This Il-Divo-esque British group singing Bohemian Rhapsody. Fantastic live orchestra. Interpretive dancing and making fun of the old whtie soul singer. Scottish bagpipe with Japanese war drum. This Japanese lady with a giant umbrella, who got it totally stuck in this narrow door, and then could not figure out why at all. We got back rather late and rather wet, but it was absolutely worth it.