On the verge of adventures

It is nearly time! On Monday morning at 4am I will climb on a bus that takes me to Stansted airport, from whence I will travel to Rome, where I will meet my darling sister at the Main Termini. And from there the European tour commences, from which I will not return until August 27th. Preparations are nearly completed: a rucksack has been purchased, nearly 200 pounds in coins are sitting in my room waiting to be converted into Euro, and all I need to do is print out my boarding pass!
The last few weeks have been nice and hectic. We did our final presentations, which turned out very well, I thought. I was very proud of us fish, and hopefully someone will post a recording of our little piece later on in the summer: I'll post a link to it here when it goes up. And then school finished with a beautiful ceremony that we first-years put together for the second years. It was a sort of pagan Greek/Roman luxury spa trust fall/walk inspirational experience with lots of massages, grapes, togas, and blindfolds. We first years, toga-clad, greeted the second-years with music and dancing, married them all together (one of my classmates got "ordained" for the purpose from the Church of Universal Light or whatever) and led them through different stations that were intended to help them relax after a long hard year and to help them prepare for the future. These included a massage parlor, an inspirational quote and trust fall section, and a blindfolded "journey to mount Olympus". After we cycled them all through these stations, we had them take off their blindfolds to see us all "punting" them into the future by the canal, and they each got a flower to throw in the canal with a wish. By this time it was raining as well, so the atmosphere was amazingly emotional and joyful. Some of them even threw themselves into the canal along with their flowers and went swimming, to the surprise and amusement of all. And after all this, we went back inside, dried off, ate lots of good food and said good-bye! Several of my classmates have decided not to come back next year, which is very sad, but they're going on to do amazing theatrical things, so it's nice to know they'll be happy and busy.
For the week and a half after the end of school I had the pleasure of being visited by my dad (for a few days) and Roger, so I got treated to all sorts of nice food, a real tour of London on one of the open-top buses, and of course the amazing company. It was so nice to have people from home here. I sometimes lose track of the fact that I'm living in a foreign country, and it was so nice to have that reminder of where I come from. And after the venerable guests left I dove right into working at the cinema and street performing, trying to save up as much as possible for Europe.
And that's where's I'm at! I'll try to keep you all posted during the European adventures, but I don't know how often I'll be able to post, so have a good month everyone, and I'll see you on the other side of Europe! :)