The first day of GEA was so great! We did so much yesterday. We started the morning with the twelve of us meeting for breakfast downstairs at Bankside House. We are able to choose six items for breakfast so many of us loaded up on protein and grabbed some fruit for later since this meal is free and nothing's cheap in England. The exchange rate was $1.75 per British Pound. EW! At any rate, breakfast was good and we were on our way to The Globe.
At 9:30 AM, we met with some of the folks who will be working with us and taking care of us, Patrick, Chris, Madeline, Cordelia, and Alex. They had coffee and tea waiting for us in the "Bull Ring", which is a round orange room in downstairs (they like round rooms here :)) and we had a little bit of time to meet and chat with each of them. Afterward, Patrick, Chris, and Madeline outlined our program as well as the others that are here at Shakespeare's Globe.
Next, Chris took us on a short walk to show us around the theater. Shakespeare's Globe was built as accurately as possible with whatever knowledge they had about what the Globe looked like 400 years ago. After our little tour, Chris took us to a space where we did some warm-up activities and talked more about our purpose here. We broke for an hour lunch where we discovered a grocery store, where food was much more affordable and there was a LOT of pre-made meals.
I have so much more to tell you about, but we have to get to our first session in a minute. I'll finish up later today.
Cheerio!
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