............Day 14, Happy 4th July!!!!

Its Independence Day!! And the kids really get into it here, not one child isn't in red, white or blue or a combination of all 3! We get to go down into town tonight, there are fireworks and a band on the beach. It should be a really good night, the weather's finally calmed down into a warm temperature, sometimes its sunny, sometimes not so much, but shorts weather either way!! Never fear though my legs are resisting all attempts at being tanned, even when I forgot to put suncream on yesterday there was no change in colour so it looks like I'll be coming home as pale as I left! With a Rudolph nose of course, it's scarily red already and we've been here 2 weeks :/

Pit rehearsals start today, I'm only needed in one, Pirates of Penzance. Really wanted to play for Rent or Little Shop of Horrors but no flutes needed sadly!! Means I get to watch them though, and given how amazing the kids were at Performing Arts Night on Friday the shows should be awesome!! We had a Glee Club rehearsal yesterday, they're doing Lady Gaga's Bad Romance and of course Journey's Dont Stop Believing, it should look brilliant!!

Had my first day off on Thursday, we had to go to a place called Glen's Falls about 2 hours away to get a social security number in order to be paid!! It's truly brilliant American logic, now I have a social security number its mine for life! Which means they'll have to have a very good reason to refuse me a visa if I want to work here in the future! Good times! After spending a good hour that definitely models itself on the Embassy in London in terms of scariness, we all went and did some much needed shopping for a couple of hours then had tea and headed back. Was nice to get off campus for the day, although it hadnt occured to me to feel claustrophobic until we got back! Possibly heading up to Montreal on our next day off, fingers crossed coz that would be amazing, it all depends on drivers and cars etc.

In other news my toe is getting better, its unstrapped now which means I can wear more weather appropriate shoes, trainers and socks could cause death in this heat!! Its still a funny purple colour and hurts sometimes but its so much better than it was and has un-jammed itself, thank God, I dont think I couldve coped with it for much longer, it was so stupidly painful!! And campus is up and down hill a lot!

Think thats about all, I had a massive post card writing session so hopefully most of you should be getting one in the post. If you dont then thats either coz stamps are insanely expensive or I dont have your address. If you desperately want a postcard fb me your address and Ill try to sort it out!! Haven't heard much gossip in the past few days, so either England is blissfully boring or y'all are leaving me out, if its the latter I wont be happy haha!!

Even though I dont agree with it in principle (the English staff here are wearing Union Jacks to make a point!!) its pretty exciting to be part of it, so Happy 4th July everyone!!! :)