Superbowl and Letterman

Time for the weekly update.
Last Saturday it was my friend Mehdi's birthday so he had a party at his flat and we went out afterwards which was quite fun. On Sunday it was the Superbowl which is the biggest sporting event in America. Green Bay Packers took on Pittsburgh Steelers. I find American football a bit confusing but I enjoyed the game, I chose to support Green Bay and they eventually won 31-25. They'd been leading 21-3 at one point and it looked like Pittsburgh might steal it at the end but Green Bay just about held on. Personally I found the adverts and the pre-game and half-time shows more entertaining. Christina Aguilera sang the national anthem but messed it up badly which was quite funny. The Black Eyed Peas performed at half-time and although their vocals were terrible, the show itself was spectacular. The adverts cost up to $3 million for 30 seconds so some of them were very entertaining!
Monday and Tuesday were boring as I had lots of work to do, but on Wednesday I went to New York to see Late Night with David Letterman. Before the show we ate at an amazing Mexican restaurant where they made the guacamole in front of you! We arrived at 2 and lined up for about 15 minutes then got given our tickets and were told to come back at 3.30. We eventually got into the studio at about 4.15 and a warm-up comedian told a few jokes then introduced the orchestra who played a couple of songs before David Letterman came out. It turned out that it was 47 years to the day since The Beatles had made their American TV debut on The Ed Sullivan Show in the theatre that we were sitting in! The guests were Elton John and Anderson Cooper, who's an American journalist. At some points it was difficult to see because of the huge cameras but it was still very entertaining!
On Thursday we went to WT's as per usual then on Friday we went for dinner at Chipotle which is a Mexican which is halfway between fast food and a restaurant. Afterwards, everyone was going to see The King's Speech at the cinema but me and Emma had already seen it so we went to see True Grit, which I had already seen but I preferred to The King's Speech. On Saturday I went to the cinema again, this time to see Made In Dagenham, which was a comedy drama about female workers at Ford's Dagenham factory in 1968 who went on strike for equal pay. I really enjoyed it but it was very strange hearing Dagenham accents in America, and I'm sure the main character partly based herself on Stacey Solomon! At night we went out to a couple of bars.
Next week, it's Winter Break so we have a week off. From Friday to Monday, I'm going on a road trip with some friends to Buffalo, Toronto and Niagara Falls which is all very exciting. It's only costing about $130 each for car hire and hotels which is an absolute bargain! I don't have much else planned for this week so I'll update the blog after the trip - bye for now!