Yesterday I had such a tremendous(ly awful) headache, that I couldn't stick around long enough to post. But yesterday was beautiful. The day, the place I went to, everything was beautiful. I know for sure now that if I don't move into a townhouse in Regent Street or Great Portland Street or Kensington when I'm older, I'd move to Hampstead for sure. There's just everything I love about the place, the people (no hooded delinquents, not a single one), the boys/men are lot more good-looking, it had the perfect ratio of cafes to boutiques. The town planner planned it out perfectly; the quaint houses, the rose bushes, the cafes. Everything is perfect.
Anyway, the reason I was in Hampstead is that the school offered a select few to go to John Keats' house. If you don't know Keats, let me jog your memory for you. He wrote Lamia, Ode to a Nightingale, La Belle Dame Sans Merci, The Eve of St Agnes. He died of TB aged 25. If that still hasn't jogged your memory, you better look up his poems, because they are amazing.
His house was beautiful (I need to come up with better adjectives). I'd taken a few pictures:
I didn't take any pictures inside, I assumed I wasn't allowed to. His house was rather big, sort of like the house in the "recently updated" version of Peter Pan with Jason Isaacs as Captain Hook. Except a bit smaller. The garden was very large, but I suppose it'd look even larger in a way when Keats was alive considering the surrounding houses weren't there at that time, and only a great expanse of countryside.
It's just amazing to be in the home of a great poet who wrote such enthralling poetry, it was definitely captivating. We had a really cool workshop too, where a performance poet named Carol Ohemaa talked to us about how poetry doesn't always have to be deep, but can be about the little details in life that may seem insignificant. I think she was great, her enthusiam as inspiring and I think towards the end we were a lot more confident to voice our opinions. I like people like that. People who bring out the best in others. If you want to check out her work, you can on http://carolohemaapoetry.blogspot.com/
Just thought I'd like to share my day yesterday with you. I think it's time to perhaps get ready for my university open day now. It's going to be a long tiring day, and I feel a little bit of coffee is in order.
WARNING: I will be talking about coffee. A lot.
Have a great day!
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