I arrived in Leeds at about 10:30 last night and via many interesting detours due to uncrossable motorways in the middle of the city I made it to my friend Shiri’s place at about 11:00. It was good to see Shiri although her place reminds me of the reasons that I don’t miss student accommodation… I left her’s at about 11:45 and walked to the bed and breakfast I’m staying at which took me no more than about 20 seconds (horray). Upon arrival I was shown to my room which is a nice reasonably sized double bedroom with a little sink in the corner and a T.V. that is older than me (and probably weighs more). The lady told me that they had only just turned on the radiator so it’ll take a little while to warm up… I was still awake at 3am shivering because I wasn’t aware that instead of a bed and breakfast I had actually booked myself into an icebox for a week! I eventually got to sleep (at 5am) only to wake up to my alarm clock at 8 which informed me it was breakfast…
I got dressed and went to breakfast to find a quite well cooked full English breakfast waiting for me, which for those of you who don’t know, I cannot eat due to the sheer amount of pig on the plate… well so far in my bed and breakfast experience, the bed was less than unacceptable as it was in fact a block of ice… and the breakfast was (although more than satisfactory for anyone else) unsatisfying for me. I went to my first day of rehearsals heavily exhausted and starving hungry, not to mention the headache from the flu I’ve been resisting for the past few days. I won’t go into explaining the rehearsal day but it’s reminded me how wonderful I feel when I’m doing the thing I love! I felt fantastic all day I went out for a large lunch with the writer (where I realised how hungry I was) and we made a massive amount of progress today.
I dreaded getting back to the Bed and Breakfast of doom for another miserable night, but upon my return the same lady from last night said that they had put an electric heater in my room and that they’re going to make me vegetarian breakfasts from now on!!! I am now sitting my wonderfully comfortable warm cosy room in my pyjamas eating a banana and am going to get an early night and hope that things will continue to progress in this vein!
Thank you for listening!
