Football and Cinema Trips

This past Saturday I went to my first ever football (soccer) game! Newcastle United versus Bristol City. Our seats were a little high up, but I was still surprised to see that we still had a good view of the game! I was really excited to see a professional football match since I've watched my brother play for so long. First off, the stadium is really nice. It's like open air, but has a roof that covers most of the field and stands, but where it's open you have a nice view of the city. Secondly, the fans are CRAZY! They are so funny. They stand up constantly (at least in my section and the ones surrounding mine they did) and constantly cheer, scream and sing in support of Newcastle United. Bristol City's fan section was two sections to my left, and they had a line of police officers separting the sections. It was really funny when the Newcastle fans would yell at the Bristol fans and vice versa...a competition of cheering. Such excitement, passion and loyalty! It's crazy. When we were exiting the stands, there was a mosh pit of sorts, and we saw the police pulling people away to stop it from getting any further, and the same when we walked down a few levels! Oh football riots.

After the game, I went back to Rita & Katie's flat with Jenn and we ordered pizza, which was decent. Then we set some plans up for Paris<3 and then also did some planning for trips to Dublin and Amsterdam! Very exciting. I'm especially excited for Paris, since I always wished to make it to the Louvre. Then Rita made some homemade popcorn which was soo tasty that I think I might steal her recipe and make it myself!

Sunday I discovered one of my new favorite places. It's called the Tyneside Cinema...and it's great. It's an old fashioned cinemal with like three or four movie screening rooms, which are smaller than what we are use to. It's very clean, and the seats are very comfortable. The screen is also smaller than in big, general theatres. They show a few of the blockbusters, but show a lot of independent films and do special events. Sunday morning we went to the cinema for part of their John Hughes tribute. John Hughes passed away this past August and he wrote and directed movies like Ferris Buellers Day Off, Pretty in Pink, and The Breakfast Club. We went to see The Breakfast Club and with our ticket we got tea or coffee plus a breakfast sandwich! It was tasty, and the movie was so good. It was a treat to see it in a theatre, since it's a film you can only see on televison or DVD. Loveee this cinema...it also has like three cafes and we are planning on going back for ice cream sundaes one day :)

I actually went to this cinema tonight! Jenn and I went because they were having free screenings of Short Films made by students in a film academy in Scotland. They were interesting...and really great cinematically.

Classes are going well, even though they are very different. Lots of people in each class, but the seminars are smaller, but even though the seminars are similar to Loyola classes they still seem to be different. I had four hours of class today and it was rainy out. Classes were a little boring but not too bad. The rest of the week I am just spending in class, doing work, and preparing for Paris! The next post will probably be after Paris :)

xoxo