This may or may not have happened...Shakespeare

All I have to say is thank God Stratford and Oxford did not take up our actual weekend. It was like a Shakespeare rollercoaster that you couldn’t get off. With that being said…it all started around three in the afternoon on a Thursday…

Being around twenty-eight people all the time has made me really appreciate the time I have with my Ipod. The bus ride to Stratford was no exception. Although my Ipod, like all the rest of my belongings, is somehow falling apart it did the trick. I am pretty sure the whole bus managed to pass out until we safely arrived in Stratford. I did ask RJ a few times if he knew where we were (I mean he always does), but he wasn’t so helpful this time. Anyways we arrive at our inn, which the twenty-eight of us took over. I mean every room was filled; the poor innkeepers had no idea what they were in for. When Lawler and I went into our room, I immediately thought it was adorable and very homey. However, after returning from Romeo and Juliet, I came to the conclusion it looked like some interior decorator threw up in our room. Lawler had no choice but to agree.

Anyways due to traffic we did not have a sufficient amount of time to get a full meal. However, this did not stop us from ordering one. I mean how could you turn down dinner for two for seven pounds! Anyways just my and Rachel’s meal came two minutes before the play starts. Great. But of course nothing stops me from inhaling my fish in chips and then proceeding to run to the theatre to make it on time. Romeo and Juliet was interesting. Out of the whole cast only Romeo and Juliet were dressed in modern day dress. Which I thought was just to make them stand out as young children. (I mean they are only 14). However, we ended up talking to an actor from the play afterwards and he pointed out there are two ways to split the play; family versus family or Romeo and Juliet against the world. This particular director chose to portray the play as Romeo and Juliet against the world. Which I thought was interesting and I had personally never thought of before. Having him say that made me like the play much more. 

The following day should have been called “Shakespeare may or may not have ever existed”. We went to his wife’s home, where they may or may not have lived during their first few years of marriage. We also went to Shakespeare’s birthplace where he may or may not have born and where they had possessions that may or may not have been his. What a joke. The highlight of that afternoon was that we went shopping on the way back to the bus.

 After the tour of what may or may not have been, we hit up Oxford. Now Oxford was legit but it is no JMU. I did not realize that Oxford is not just one school but rather multiple. However Chris and I just walked around wondering where the block parties would be or where we could hold a tailgate. The answer is nowhere.

 We hopped back on the bus a few hours later, rested up and roughly 12 of us went on the Westminster pub-crawl. The motivation was a free t-shirt. Holla…its really ugly. But the best part was that Chris and his frat-tastic homeboy showed up in matching attire. You go frat stars.