Today everyone met for the morning classes and we watched
the film Kiss Me Kate. I actually
really enjoyed this movie and learned a lot about Shakespeare’s themes and
motifs throughout his plays just by watching it. Kiss Me Kate is loosely based off William Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew. Like Shakespeare in Love, it is a storyline
within another storyline. The main plot
of the story is that there is a man who is trying to make his ex-wife fall back
in love with him, by “taming” her. They are also both actors in the play Taming of the Shrew itself, with the
same plot occurring in the play as it does in the real world. I loved the film.
Right after the film, we got lunch on campus then headed to
the train station for a long ride over to East London where we had an Olympic
site tour. The tour itself wasn’t what I was expecting. I felt like we could
have gotten the same information off a Google search. But I was glad to say
that I got to see something that is so remarkable in history. My favorite
aspect of the tour was when the tour guide explained how the site itself is
incredible energy efficient and “green.” The way that the Olympic council
decides on which of the prospective countries gets to host the Olympics is
based on various reasons, such as efficiency in the community, how “green” the
sites are, how many jobs the Olympic will create in the area, and how it will
be utilized in the future.
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