National Galleries

Yesterday for Pop Culture class, our professor took us on a tour of the National Gallery. I was really excited for that... until I found out that the National Gallery is different from the National Portrait Gallery. The National Gallery is all art, most of which is very, very old, like 16th century. Luckily our professor is a very liberal, eccentric middle-aged man who always wears a forest green velvet suit. With him as our tour guide, the gallery was slightly more exciting, especially because he tends to go on rants about such subjects as pornography and cannabis...

Still, I've really been looking forward to seeing the National Portrait Gallery, so I did that today after my Fiction class. It was pretty cool. My favorite by far was the Twiggy instillation.

Other Cool Stuff I Saw There:
1. The only portrait of Shakespeare he actually sat for
2. A Ben Jonson portrait
3. A very small pencil drawing of Jane Austen
4. A painting of William Blake
5. A lot of Princess Diana and Prince Harry and Prince William
6. Andy Warhol prints of Queen What's-her-face
7. An extremely delicious brownie (well, I ate it, too).

I haven't talked a lot about my internship on here, because I don't want to say something inappropriate and get in trouble. But I'll say a little bit about how it's going. It's going okay. For the most part, I like the other youth workers and have been having fun with them. The young people (YP) are hard to get to know, and they have a range of behavioral issues (everything from cursing at youth workers to run-ins with the police). I'm trying hard to talk to them even when I feel awkward, and to assert my authority when necessary. It's pushing me outside my comfort zone, which is definitely a good thing.

Bye darlings,
Rebecca