Term 2: Week 6: Doctor's diagnosis: heartless

Monday

Half term holiday! Whoop!

Tuesday

Open day! Exciting adventures with trying to guide people around a building we still don't really know, crazy people and chats with the Principal. And, of course, the Pancake Party that night.

Wednesday

Two new modules, which I'm looking forward to: more cinema, more tv, including a very interesting discussion on what shocks/outrages us, which ramble along very pleasantly, and which is definitely my favourite way of learning.

This is the shocking advert I mentioned, and it is consequently a brilliant ad (it doesn't outrage me, I think it's just being good at its job!):





Friday

The day of musicals. Endless, endless, musicals.





(Into The Woods by Stephen Sondheim performed by the original Broadway cast; the whole soundtrack is on Spotify)

This is my kind of musical: self aware, funny, and musically complex enough to hold my attention - if I wouldn't listen to it doing the dusting, I won't listen to it onscreen.

We certainly got a tour of the kind I don't like. The cheesy, cheery kind, where plot or character is largely ignored in favour of getting to the next show tune. There was also the problem of being able to hear it over the permagrinning presenters slapping each other on the back.

There were some fun parts though: singing along to "Make 'Em Laugh", having a collective recoil from "Thank Goodness For Little Girls" and finding out how to walk on the ceiling.