We might have gone there anyway, but since it was Michael's birthday - which we celebrated in his apartment on campus btw: the biggest party this kitchen had ever seen (probably because you have to register parties before actually having them, plus, there is deadline at night, something around 11 p.m. ^^) - the week before, we declared it a birthday present for him. Well, this present turned out a bit "differently" than we had expected.
The ticket sale and going there together was organised by the International Society that had finally woken up (they hadn't been doing much during the semester, I think). Yeah, so buying the tickets was not a major problem. The ticket sale was at certain times in the Arts Building, you paid for your ticket(s) and in return, you were listed as attendant of this event.
But then, after we had already bought our tickets, the International Society suddenly announced that the show were we wanted to go was already sold out and that they therefore had to change the date from Wednesday to Tuesday. Which was kind of annoying for all the people who had classes on Tuesday. Me, for example. I mean, I would have had classes on Wednesday as well, but the difference was the stupid attendance requirement. Anyway, I calculated that I wouldn't fall below 70% attendance, so it would have been possible to just skip the course. But unfortunately, I was still waiting for the result of the first in-class translation test (the second one was exactly two weeks later, and our lecturer had promised to give back the first test for some weeks then). So, I had to at least go there for the test result, I thought. The result: Our lecturer just started with the next translation exercise without even mentioning the test. Only when I asked him, he admitted that he wasn't finished with it and we would get it a week later (i.e. exactly one week before the second test!!). Yeah, so I had basically come for nothing. Nothing but the leaving which went like this: a classmate had entered the room 20 minutes late with the 'apology', "It wasn't my fault." So I decided to leave 15 minutes after that with the comment, "I have to leave. It's not my fault." That made at least the rest of the room laugh. :-P
We met at the train station with some members of the International Society to take the train to Dublin Pearse together. Well, this worked... kind of. We took the train together but when we got off the train at Pearse, we couldn't see the rest of the society, especially the committee members, any more. Anyway, that was just a bit strange, but not much of a problem since at least some of us knew where the Gaiety Theatre was. We had actually passed it the Saturday before after going to the Christmas market. I had even taken pictures because it was so obvious what they were playing there in December :-D
Yeah, so due to the disappearance of the committee members we made our way to the Gaiety on our own. It just took us longer than expected because the theatre wasn't so close to the train station - which is why Petra, who had taken the bus, was the only one of us who was in front of the theatre on time. Well, didn't really matter in the end, because we spent some time standing around anyway, because for some reason the committee didn't hand out the tickets. Only when some staff of the theatre said that people should go in and take their seats they started giving us the tickets...
Needless to say, it was really well-organised and everything, we didn't have to hurry at all (especially since we had to go to the toilet before the panto started - and ladies' toilets are not crowded at all at big events...!). But okay, this is Ireland, and nothing ever starts on time in Ireland, not even a pantomime in the theatre. xD
So we actually managed to be seated (not on our seats though, but nobody of the International Society cared about the seat numbers, so what...) before it started. The theatre, by the way:
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| High-quality mobile phone picture xD |
I'm not exactly sure why the International Society had decided to go there with us. I mean, it was quite obvious that university students weren't the target group of this event. Except for us, there were basically children and their poor parents. Some of them had even dressed up, like the little girl sitting next to Win. The fact that this pink princess was constantly hitting her with her flashing stick (they were seriously selling colourful flashing shite in the theatre!) might have contributed to her looking forward to the end of this play. Or at least the break in the middle.
During the break, Laetitia spent all time queuing for the toilet, while the rest of us tried to find the way out (no, not in order to escape). Win was actually considering getting drunk in the break, just to get ready for the second half. xD
My opinion was that the panto was okay - if you didn't take it seriously, of course. It was quite... interesting. :-D So yeah, we had a lot of fun in the theatre. Even Win, who somehow liked the second half way better than the first one - without alcohol, btw. ^^ Might have been because she got used to all the weirdness. Or it was simply because of the songs from Frozen (see below :-P).
When the panto was over and most people had left, the theatre looked like this:
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| "The show is over." |
We were basically like "Disgusting!". In Germany, not even cinemas look like this, let alone theatres. o.O
Anyway, so we were some of the last ones to leave the Gaiety Theatre - and our first stop was at the Disney Store to take a picture.
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| Love Is An Open Door, you know. ;-) |
Then, I tried to take pictures of the Christmas decoration again. Since I still wasn't successful, Petra did it for me. Click here for the slightly photoshopped result. :-)
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Again, sorry for the delay. I thought I would be faster with writing the missing posts. But the internet problems in my Mannheim apartment don't really help (greetings from the library - they have WiFi here :-P). The same is true for my laziness... ^^
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