Fear Is A Funny Thing

Dear Everybody,

school started again this week for J so everything is going back to normal. Halfterm was pretty exhausting for me, because I had to keep him entertained all day, which can be quite hard. Therefore I enjoyed the weekend even more. 

On Saturday we visited Tate Modern, the most visited art gallery for modern art. We took one of the free guided tours around one of the exhibitions. In the beginning it was only Celine, our guide Steve and I so it felt as if we had a private tour, but later more and more people joined. I enjoyed strolling through the galleries. If you are not interested in art, you might find it controversial whether a lot of the exhibits even are art. It also gives you great starting points for discussions: What is art? Does it have to be done by an artist? Is it the process of creating or the final result you see? Or can instructions for building something be art?

After this sophisticated Saturday afternoon our Sunday was completely different. We had booked tickets to go to the London Dungeon and I was already nervous hours before we got there. I like being scared and watching scary films or series, but being there in the moment, being scared by actors seemed like a completely different level to me. I now know it is different! But it is great fun as well, it was the perfect mix between screaming and laughing about it seconds later. The scariest part was when Jack the Ripper attacked me out of all the people in the tavern we were in. The room went dark and suddenly a spotlight revealed Jack the Ripper, who came running towards me, knife in his hand, leaning over our table ready to attack me. I screamed louder than I ever did and the only logical reaction for me was to slide backwards with my chair into all the people standing there. I heard Celine screaming my name. Then it went pitch black again before the normal light was turned on again. That's when I started laughing and then everyone did. They are right when they say: Fear is a funny thing. 

After calming down and having a drink we went for a walk along Whitehall to Trafalgar Square where filming for a Warner Bros film about the first World War took place. Of course we ended up in Covent Garden in the evening and ended our weekend on a funny note by watching the best street performer I've seen so far.

See you!