Autumn in London '06

Halloween!!!

Hello everyone!

Well, one thing that I had been wondering was whether or not the British celebrate Halloween, and I guess the answer is yes! I found this out Monday when I decided to go grocery shopping with one of my flatmates. The local supermarket, Sainsbury's, was having a 50% off halloween costumes sale! That was a big clue, but then Jess told me that there was a Halloween dance at the Student Union and that costumes were required. Now, I'm not normally a dress up kind of person, but how could I refuse? I'm in London, I'm young, I'm healthy, why not have a good time?

So I picked out the only costume that would fit me (there were only kids' costumes left, so I had to pick the biggest of those), which ended up being a skeleton with some plastic chains on the front. Pretty nice, I liked it a lot!

On Halloween, my regularly scheduled class was cancelled to make room for one-on-one sessions with the professor regarding our essays. This is my Music Aesthetics class, and after meeting with the professor I decided on the topic "Is Music a Language?", a challenging but I think interesting question. The professor gave me a list of some sources that he thought would be helpful, and I was on my way.

As it turns out, I decided to augment my costume with a giant sombrero that was for some reason lying about the flat. So I really looked like I was going to un celebracion del dia de los muertos, which was fine by me.

The actual dance was a bit underwhelming really. It was open to the general public, so the place was very crowded, and the live band that they had was not very good. Additionally, the large crowd made it impossible to get to or from the bar, so I left after only an hour or two, but it was still fun to dance in costume. And I got so many compliments for my costume as well, as despite my (what I would call) lackluster effort in its construction, the general level of creativity at the dance was extremely poor.

And today has proven to be another boring one, with a day spent reading articles and the night spent at my journalism class. Oh well, they can't all be exciting. But the Borat movie comes out tomorrow night, so I'm very excited for that.

Oh, and good news! Pictures are finally online! Just follow this link:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/kevininlondon/sets

And as one last note, I want to wish a belated happy birthday to my best friend Brendan (Oct 29), who just turned 21. Happy Birthday Bren!

posted by Zachary Nicholson @ 10:15 PM