I hath been Macbeth'd. Again.

Hooray for index flags! No, I'm not abusing them, not at all.

And yes, I verbed a name in the title. So sue me! (please don't. I have no money.)

As you can see, the introduction in this version of Macbeth turned out to be quite interesting, too. Go figure.

Macbeth commiting McMurder to become McKing

Considering that we're supposed to write a 1500 word essay on the thing, I have spent my evening reading the introduction to Penguin's edition of Macbeth.

As you can see, I did find some of it interesting.

Some.

School and stairs

Today we have discussed Macbeth. For four hours. Fun times.

Actually, it was kind of fun. The play is interesting enough, and today we were introduced to a new teacher who'll be in charge of our literary essay, and I have to say out of the ones we've met so far he is definitely the best. He's a bit scatterbrained, which isn't really something to mind, but he knows his stuff and we had a real fun class. We also had Mr. Douche, but he wasn't as bad as during the first class.

And today me and Matilda decided to try the stairs going from the train station up to our roads. Looks fun, doesn't it?

One week

We've been here for a week now. In one way it doesn't feel like it's that long, but still, a whole week? Sheesh.

Anyway. Matilda and I decided to forego the beach today and instead found a nice little park nearby (Withdean park) where we sat for a couple of hours to discuss Macbeth for the upcoming literary survey class. Fun times.

The park had a little pond, and it had fish and everything. We were very impressed.

It wasn't a very big park, but it was quite cozy.

Matilda.

Me.

A tree (one of many).

Look, another tree.

More tree.

Something we decided we'd have to explore some other day.

Matilda and a bunch of dead leaves. I knew it was supposed to be Autumn!

More magpie

And now I drew another one. And unlike the previous one, this one isn't a copy of a picture - I drew it all on my own (I might have glanced at several pictures of magpies just to get the feathers and proportions right. Maybe).

Here's the sketch beginning to take the form of a bird.

Now the outline is basically finished.

And here we have a magpie! I'm not too happy with the feet, but they'll have to do.

Magpie

Another magpie sketch. Though for this one I used coloured pencils as well; Black (for the black parts, duh) and green and blue for the wings. Fun times.

Sunny weather

I think Brighton has forgotten that it's supposed to be in England; the weather has been ridiculously warm and sunny the last few days.

So warm and sunny, in fact, that we opted for a day at the beach. (Yes, I think the heat may have gotten to me.)

As per usual I brought the camera, so here's some pictures.

Here's on our way down. This is the underside of a bridge which we thought looked quite fancy.

Some more of the under-bridge.

More bridge.

And even more bridge.

Here's the other side.

And this is the exit of the tunnel under the bridge.

Another one of those painted things.

Some commercial for some music-thingie.

Another bridge.

Look, a cassette!

The beach. There were a fair few more people there today compared to yesterday.

Me and Matilda.

Beach!

Very white legs.

Some more beach.

And here's me on my way down to brave the water.

I'm almost there. On a sidenote, those stones are a bitch to walk barefoot on. Really painful.

I'm getting there!

About to get hit by a wave.

Water!

It wasn't nearly as cold as I thought it'd be.

And this is how far out I went.

Now I'm on my way back up those impossible stones.

Trying to walk, with some difficulties.

Here's to show just how many people were there.

They have really pretty lamps here by the beach.