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Monday, July 7. 2008

Life in America

On Friday morning, the Fourth of July, we hustled the baby of the Bird Dog litter, age 16, down to JFK for her flight to Heathrow. This young world traveller is going on her third solo European trip, this time to study in an advanced Shakearean acting course at Oxford. Acting in, and digging into the classics is her passion.

She's a lucky gal to be blessed with a passion like that.

Her video auditions for the program impressed even me - as did her admission essays. There are those moments when you look wonderingly at a kid of yours and you think "How the heck did I produce that?!?!" Of course, you didn't. God did it. I have had many such head-scratching moments with my kids.

As typically happens in the four days before such trips, we had to deal with a suddenly-made-aware-of lost passport (it evaporated during the recent driver's license ID process) - and then with her emergency root canal on Thursday morning. Terrifying visions of Brit dentistry!

Her first and almost immediate email after her arrival at Balliol College was to inform us that she had neglected to bring her precious, required, and essential Riverside Shakespeare with her. It was the only item she absolutely had to have. She needed it immediately. Actor-types are like that...

I considered driving to the shore and trying to toss it across the pond to her, but that Riverside Shakespeare is a weighty tome.

So she will have to solve that emergency herself.

Posted by Bird Dog in The Culture, "Culture," Pop Culture and Recreation at 20:20 | Comments (8) | Trackbacks (0)

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Brown can DO IT (call UPS)!!!
#1 Gwynne on 2008-07-07 21:45 (Reply)
DHL is the way to go for international deliveries. did i just spell that right? Clearly no Shakespeare around here. Hope she has a great time.
#2 opie109 on 2008-07-07 22:28 (Reply)
You must be very proud of her!
#3 Ratso on 2008-07-07 23:12 (Reply)
Tell her to try Hatchard's book store in London. They have absolutely everything. And she can charge it on your charge card. And work it off before she's 21 -- or so.

It'll be cheaper than trying to ship it to her.

Marianne

P.S. In our younger days, we had a charge account with them, and they sent out the most wonderful ads.
#4 Marianne Matthews on 2008-07-07 23:14 (Reply)
Amazon.co.uk
#5 Retread on 2008-07-08 06:21 (Reply)
BD from reading your interesting posts, I'd say you kids were blessed to grow up in an intellectually stimulating and inquiring invironment. God may have blessed her with her soul but you apparently have done a fine job with the pick and shovel daily grind work. I hope mine turn out half as well.

Cheers
#6 Phil G on 2008-07-08 07:25 (Reply)
If she needs a local contact, although she sounds very self-sufficient, BD, my son lives in London. Another of those, "How the heck did I produce that?!?!" cases. Anyway, he'll be in the States for a few days around next weekend, but he's usually there, and is used to being a shepherd for the occasional ex-pat youngster.
#7 Steve on 2008-07-08 07:41 (Reply)
Blackwell's is an international publisher and one of the largest bookshops (by titles stocked) in the world. It's bookshop is in Broad Street in Oxford. So is Balliol!
#8 Canker (Link) on 2008-07-08 10:22 (Reply)

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