Week 10 - Friday

This morning starts like Monday morning: History, Literature and Truth. Tacitus today. The lecture was nice. Just nice. Afterwards I don't remember very well what I did. Probably I went to the library to check my e-mails and do some reading. Oh, I also went to Woolworths to collect a £3 copy of the dvd of Sense and Sensibility. I do remember that we had lunch in the Bistro, Emmanuel, Sam, Soline and me. I remember also that we had a very good laugh, but I do not perfectly recall what it was about. So I'll just cherish the memory of the laugh. Afterwards an afternoon followed which threatened to be just the same as Thursday afternoon. Again, I spent at least 4 hours wandering around in search of shoes, a backpack and a teapot. I ended up in Shoefayre next to the Co-op Department Store. They are selling everything because they will close down the shop. I still don't believe it myself but in that shop I found beautiful cheap shoes (£10), an even more beautiful rucksack (£3.33) and a perfect, special teapot (£11). My day was made. Now I could at least wear my skirt tonight to go to the Glow-festival. We had an appointment at 6.30 at the Monument to start our Glow-tour from there. Glow is part of the NewcastleGateshead Winter Festival. Around the city buildings are lit in a special way with a magenta-pinkish light. Arriving at the Monument I found that much more people had turned up than we had invited. Apparently there had been a kind of e-mail chain. Less positive was that the group (about 20 people) consisted only of Germans and French people (speaking French all the time...) and two Belgians: Sam and me. We started off to the first attraction: open air cinema. If it had been for me, I would have stayed for at least one film or returned there after the whole trail to watch all the rest of the films, but the others wanted to go on. So we went. I hope all of us noticed the Space Invader in that road. Anyway, the rest of the trail was very nice too. We saw the cathedral, the Castle Keep, the Millennium Bridge and Baltic, the All Saints Church and much more in a different light for once, a pink-magenta one. For one night, you would nearly believe Newcastle was really a beautiful city! And of course we tried to spot all the Vampire Rabbits that were lighted around the city. These were the children's part of Glow. A pinkish rabbit, quite scary-looking, stared down on you from several buildings. We took loads of pictures, haunted each other with our magenta glow-sticks and admired the open-air art. (Of the pictures I hope to put a selection on this website soon.) After the trail, some of us went eating Portuguese chicken in the Gate, others went to Burger King. In the meantime, I was slowly falling asleep. So afterwards I went straight home. But I could honestly not keep myself from watching Sense and Sensibility in my bed. What a film! What a happy day.