Wow!
What a week it has been! I cant believe that its only been a week (ok, now its been a week and a half but we are gonna pretend that I posted this on Sunday night like I intended). I feel like I have known everyone here for so long and been to the city many times before.
My friends and I visited many of the famous Pubs here including the Red Lion, The Kings Arm and The Trout Inn. We have yet to go to The Eagle and Child (where JRR Tolkien and CS Lewis would meet) but I think that's in the works for this weekend. I have also tried my hand at Squash, its very fun. I hope to keep it up while I am here, and its fun to watch the boys play because they all grunt like the Williams sisters. On Thursday I play indoor soccer, and that is fun as well. The Brazilian and Italian kids get really into the game and get mad at each other when they don't get the ball and they don't like to pass the ball, but sooner or later they will figure it out!
We also had our Formal Dinner one night. It was fun... free wine... that pretty much sums it up! Haha! It was nice because all the "senior" students were there so we got a chance to meet everyone who was in the program.
On Saturday we visited London and on Sunday we explored Oxford. During my "free time" I have had my nose stuck in about every Cold War book that our library has. As much as I love history, I HATE the cold war! But only a few more weeks till we move onto Korea, Vietnam and the 70's. All my classes are really nice. I have one class where it is just me and my professor, and that is kind of scary. Especially because the man has two PhDs! All my other classes have 2-3 people in them. Its weird not having the lecture classes like at home, everything here is discussion based. The educational culture is totally different and so much to learn about as well
I think for the most part I did a pretty good job explaining everything in the blog. There are some good pictures so I put a bigger version of it on YouTube. YOU CAN FIND IT HERE.
Here are some of my favorite pictures from this last week.
Michael, Jordan, Meghan, Cole, Myself and Stephanie at Christ Church College
Clockwise - Me, Jess, Jordan, Michael, Kelly and Cole at the British "Moo-ze-umm"
Ali, Myself, Boris and Jess at Formal Dinner
St.Gile's Fair
Ragnahild (from Norway) and I at The Trout
