Today I had class most of the day. I really enjoyed the paintings we looked at in humanities. We looked at a lot of painting done by Turner. He starts leading to impressionists art. We also began studying Pre-Raphaelites and I really really like them. It was really neat because we talked about them in Humanities and then related them to the to some of the poems we were studying in our class.
After class I went to the Imperial War Museum. It was so much fun. Outside the museum is part of the Berlin Wall. The main floor has tons of airplanes and rockets that are really important. Especially VI and V2 bombs which they guy on Monday talked about. I went to four different exhibits.
I went the WWI exhibit first. It was really interesting walking through a lot of the informational stuff because I didn’t know a lot of it because its from a European perspective. Different events are more important to them. Americans also didn’t get involved in the war until the very end. They have this are sectioned off that simulates what the trenches would have been like. Its really dark smells awful and was really scary. I can’t imagine what it would have been like to live inside of those all the time. I thought it was done really well. You got as best a glimpse of as you can without personally experiencing what it would have been like.
Then I went to the World War Two exhibit. There is this huge timeline of the war and I was trying to put things in order. One of the events I was looking for was Pearl Harbor and it wasn’t on the timeline. I thought they would at least have that we entered the war but it didn’t. I was really surprised. For the WWII exhibit they have a simulation of what the blitz would have been like. You sit in this little area where you have been in bomb shelter and the seats randomly shake. I wasn’t expecting the seat to move and it really scared me. Then you walk down these streets and then parts of the houses get bombed and fall apart. It was really interesting to see what they lived with. There was a period of time when they bombed for 56 consecutive nights and they were in the winter months. Bombers would start bombing after dark. Its November and it starts getting pretty dark around five. That means they could bomb for about 10 hours everyday and you would be just stuck in this bomb shelter.
Then they had a James Bond Exhibit that was really interactive. I didn’t know that the James Bond movies were based on books. It was really cool to see about the authors life. There were a lot of interactive things. The author worked for the intelligence office during the war. He got a lot of his ideas from working there. One of the interactive things showed how some of the information he collected during battles helped us win. Maps would pop up and show the different movements electrically. Another interactive game you had to get the object you wanted to know more about in the target of the gun to find out more about it. We had a lot of fun with this one. At the end of the exhibit were different poster from all the movies and the blood stand shirt from Casino Royal.
Then I went up to In Memoriam. This exhibit moved me. I almost started crying in the middle of it. It is a tribute to those who fought in WWI and was done as part of Remembrance Day because it is the 90th anniversary. There are different quotes from the people all over the walls about their experiences. Different art works and poems. It really hits you what these people went through. The museum also lists lots of different numbers of casualties.
On that sad note I went home really grateful for what I have. I loved the museum but didn’t even come close to seeing everything I could have.
And tonight I went and saw Les Miserable. I really love this musical. We got really good seats and the music was really good. The Cosset wasn’t that great but very one else did a wonderful job. It was really nice to go see something that I just wanted to see and no have to do a homework assignment on it.
After class I went to the Imperial War Museum. It was so much fun. Outside the museum is part of the Berlin Wall. The main floor has tons of airplanes and rockets that are really important. Especially VI and V2 bombs which they guy on Monday talked about. I went to four different exhibits.
I went the WWI exhibit first. It was really interesting walking through a lot of the informational stuff because I didn’t know a lot of it because its from a European perspective. Different events are more important to them. Americans also didn’t get involved in the war until the very end. They have this are sectioned off that simulates what the trenches would have been like. Its really dark smells awful and was really scary. I can’t imagine what it would have been like to live inside of those all the time. I thought it was done really well. You got as best a glimpse of as you can without personally experiencing what it would have been like.
Then I went to the World War Two exhibit. There is this huge timeline of the war and I was trying to put things in order. One of the events I was looking for was Pearl Harbor and it wasn’t on the timeline. I thought they would at least have that we entered the war but it didn’t. I was really surprised. For the WWII exhibit they have a simulation of what the blitz would have been like. You sit in this little area where you have been in bomb shelter and the seats randomly shake. I wasn’t expecting the seat to move and it really scared me. Then you walk down these streets and then parts of the houses get bombed and fall apart. It was really interesting to see what they lived with. There was a period of time when they bombed for 56 consecutive nights and they were in the winter months. Bombers would start bombing after dark. Its November and it starts getting pretty dark around five. That means they could bomb for about 10 hours everyday and you would be just stuck in this bomb shelter.
Then they had a James Bond Exhibit that was really interactive. I didn’t know that the James Bond movies were based on books. It was really cool to see about the authors life. There were a lot of interactive things. The author worked for the intelligence office during the war. He got a lot of his ideas from working there. One of the interactive things showed how some of the information he collected during battles helped us win. Maps would pop up and show the different movements electrically. Another interactive game you had to get the object you wanted to know more about in the target of the gun to find out more about it. We had a lot of fun with this one. At the end of the exhibit were different poster from all the movies and the blood stand shirt from Casino Royal.
Then I went up to In Memoriam. This exhibit moved me. I almost started crying in the middle of it. It is a tribute to those who fought in WWI and was done as part of Remembrance Day because it is the 90th anniversary. There are different quotes from the people all over the walls about their experiences. Different art works and poems. It really hits you what these people went through. The museum also lists lots of different numbers of casualties.
On that sad note I went home really grateful for what I have. I loved the museum but didn’t even come close to seeing everything I could have.
And tonight I went and saw Les Miserable. I really love this musical. We got really good seats and the music was really good. The Cosset wasn’t that great but very one else did a wonderful job. It was really nice to go see something that I just wanted to see and no have to do a homework assignment on it.
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