#12 I'm Feeling Creative!

Cambridge overflows with creativity. Everything, down to the tiniest brick in the walls of King's College and the advantageous positioning of the Starbuck's cafe at the mall, compounds into a condusive environment for observation and imagination.

The day started promptly at 6:45 with a fire drill. I threw on my robe and slipped into my crocks, blearily stumbling down the stairs to stand in the cold morning air. When it was finally over, I went back upstairs and got dressed.

After a wonderfully big breakfast with friends, I went to Creative Writing. First we finished a sonnet that the entire class began yesterday about the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square. The art department has allowed regular people to go up on the plinth for one hour and do whatever they like. One person wore a panda costume and took calls. Another brought up a tea set and mimed high tea. It really piqued our interest, so we wrote about it.

Then we went down to the mall and Ross bought us all a hot drink. While we enjoyed our coffee and tea, we watched people and wrote down descriptions of them, eventually making up stories about them. There were some fascinating people there.

After that I had lunch. Then I went to Social Psychology, which is definitely at least as much fun as Creative Writing. We took personality tests. I discovered that I am pretty much exactly where I've always thought I was: dead center, but high on Openness. I actually score in the high middle range on Neuroticism, but it doesn't mean what you think it means.

After that, I listened to the interbationally acclaimed former Poet Laureate of England, Sir Andrew Motion. I swear I will never again read a long repetitive poem in a slow, droning voice. It's not that it was bad, his voice was just so soothing and calming, it nearly put me to sleep!

After a wonderful dinner spent chatting with friends and some free time spent in the common room, I saw an incredible performance. This man stood up there and rapped three of the Canterbury Tales! We heard the Pardoner's tale, the Miller's rather crass tale, and the very interesting tale from the Wife of Bath. This man has literally taken Chaucer's traditional story and turned it into rap. He is very fond of making parallels between the rap culture and the culture of medieval England.

I had a lot of fun times today!

God Bless,

Erienne