Today we were talking about Othello in my Shakespeare seminar, it was really fun just to listen to all the British accents... I got a little preoccupied with trying to figure out who was from where, but we were talking about race, and my seminar leader is this very enthusiastic post grad student, and she kept saying things like, "isn't it racist to discuss race at all?" and I don't know but it all seemed a little silly to me, especially when the picture on my edition was this homo erectus monkey man. Obviously there is racism inherent in the play, and I was especially uncomfortable because everyone in the room was paler than me, and I'm pretty darn pale even with tan.
Anyway, after that I went for a walk on the Waterloo Bridge and looked around Somerset House's courtyard, it's an art gallery that King's College is trying to purchase to add to their campus.
Tonight I'm going out with some kids, it's Tuesday, but I have no classes tomorrow and drinking culture here is just so amazingly true to the stereotype. Anyhow I'm working on talking to boys in a way that does not make them think that I am proposing a sex tryst in the broom closet. Wish me luck!
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