2 Hours with Vicki

Today it was raining beyond all reason in Collegedale. The good news was, it was a Sunday. And what better activity for a rainy Sunday than to head into town for a 12:55 p.m. showing of a new historical film, The Young Victoria. I took along my friend, Chelsey, for several reasons:

a.) she is my friend

b.) she wanted to see the movie too

c.) she shares my love for films that most of the rest of the world would only care to watch in history class, and even then only so they could nap during it

We got there a bit late; it was rainy on the highway and we decided to choose life by going slower. But once we arrived and had settled down in the back row of Rave theater 5, I got the most lovely sensation. Here I was, spending two hours learning about something I absolutely love: British history.

Go ahead, call me a nerd if you like, but the truth is that I've become so bogged down in what I'm supposed to learn in college that I've forgetten to take time to learn about the things I love. It's easy to get turned off to learning when you spend too much time learning because you have to and not enough time learning because you want to. After two hours with Victoria and Albert, I've fallen in love with learning again.

As a side note, The Young Victoria is fantastic, but you had probably already guessed I'd say that...check out the trailer below: