Tuesday Classes

My first class this morning, Sport Marketing, technically began at 9:30 though most of the students didn't show up until almost 10 because of problems on the tube and the professor didn't even arrive until 10:15. Genevieve, one half of my professor tag-team, is completely insane and, at this point, I think she's amazing. She's a young rugby player that does legal and marketing things for different sport teams here (I'm not quite clear on her exact job). The syllabus is currently very confusing and because Clive, the other professor, made it differently than he and Gen discussed, no one is sure of what the assignments are. I do know, however, that the entire class is required to go to the NFL Super Bowl Party on Sunday, 4 February if Clive's able to get tickets for all of us. It doesn't start until 11pm, and a case study and critique are both due on Tuesday, 6 February, which is nuts. When Clive is teaching us, which is close to half of the class periods, we'll be meeting at the MLB in Central London and listening to guest lecturers of various kinds rather than hanging at the London Center.

My second class, Modern British History, actually has books. I was able to get them from the library at the London Center, so with any luck, I don't have to buy them at all. Some of the people in the class make me crazy, but I enjoy the professor. Another cool aspect of the class: We get to go on field trips! Mostly we'll be frequenting museums and galleries, but we also get to see the war rooms and go on a walking tour of East London.

For my British Pop class, which doesn't start until tomorrow, I had to go to a documentary showing at 7pm today. It was about 1967, The Beatles, and the rest of the music scene during that year. The director and producer of the doc is coming to speak to our class on next Wednesday's class, which should be interesting. On first impression, the professor seems really cool, and people in the other section have only said good things about her. We shall see tomorrow.

Our toilet is broken for the second time in 3 days, which is almost as frustrating as it is inconvenient. We're going to have to get it fixed again tomorrow, so hopefully that will stick. In the mean time, we're lucky that we're not here much and that there are McDonalds and Burger King just down the street.