Back to School!

I dressed for a nice warm spring day today based on the fact that it was warm and humid yesterday and today's forecast was exactly the same as yesterday's. But I chose poorly as it turned out to be a chilly and windy autumn-like day - just like every first day of school in September since I was 6 years old! It didn't matter though - my art history class is brilliant! 


The programme director is extremely interesting and funny (and kept me awake unlike similar classes in the past!) and reminds me of Richard Attenborough in Jurassic Park...except he's an expert in antique furniture and European decorative arts, not dinosaurs. Today's lecturer was a premier architecture historian and resident comedian... like Michael Palin doing his tour around the world... only with more sarcasm and we were touring around London's 20th century buildings (I cannot believe that the 20th century is now part of architecture 'history').  And the class! Well, the class is like an eccentric cast of characters in a Wes Anderson film:  a demure and motherly Vanessa Redgrave from Dorset, a friendly, artsy Shelley Long from Southern California, the casual-chic and modern German woman with the most excellent leather accessories, the wealthy English blonde with great designer wardrobe and a bad tan, the chavvy brunette with a bit of a loud mouth in class but mildly entertaining, and her tag-along ginger friend (sort of like an older version of the 2 female characters that Matt Lucas and David Walliams do in Little Britain - you know who I mean!), the quiet Chilean wine-maker (who agrees with me that the wines by Coppola are not that good) and the good-looking Belgian metrosexual/workaholic. There are a few other ladies who band around together and wear a similar costume of leather jacket, jeans and boots. They were obviously better prepared than I was for today's weather! 


Cannot wait for next week. I really wish I had been able to take all 3 terms...