Orientation is over! We have started our "British Landscape Programme", which is essentially an overview in British history, society, etc. Pretty interesting so far, aside from the Simon Shama videos which, I am afraid to admit, have me slightly less than captivated. I am trying not to be freaked out by the oncoming workload, but today I caved in a drew a cartoon which involved: me, drowning in the perilous waves of Oxford, a shark labeled "long essay," about to devour me, whilst the USS SCIO (Scholarship & Christianity In Oxford - the name of our program) sails on by... I'm really hoping to find a scanner so I can put that picture in the blog.
Last night a group of friends and I went gallivanting around downtown Oxford:
We had many glorious adventures, involving getting locked inside a gated campus! Thankfully, we put our brilliant minds together and found the way out... incidentally, the same way we had entered.
Tomorrow night I am going to take swing dance lessons! £4 for an hour & a half lesson, plus a free voucher for the 2nd lesson! What a deal!
About the link to the pictures I was posting online... let's talk again about the ridiculous internet here. I simply am not patient enough to wait for everything to upload, so you will all need to be pacified with what I put on the blog for now. My sincerest apologies.
I am absolutely loving the experience so far (yes, all 4 days of it!), and despite my worries about the academic demands, I am very excited about the next 3 months! It still seems surreal, every time I walk to Wycliffe Hall through the parks & down the narrow streets, marveling at the colossal stone structures towering above...
I am so blessed to be here!
Love to all,
Rachel
Last night a group of friends and I went gallivanting around downtown Oxford:
We had many glorious adventures, involving getting locked inside a gated campus! Thankfully, we put our brilliant minds together and found the way out... incidentally, the same way we had entered.
Tomorrow night I am going to take swing dance lessons! £4 for an hour & a half lesson, plus a free voucher for the 2nd lesson! What a deal!
About the link to the pictures I was posting online... let's talk again about the ridiculous internet here. I simply am not patient enough to wait for everything to upload, so you will all need to be pacified with what I put on the blog for now. My sincerest apologies.
I am absolutely loving the experience so far (yes, all 4 days of it!), and despite my worries about the academic demands, I am very excited about the next 3 months! It still seems surreal, every time I walk to Wycliffe Hall through the parks & down the narrow streets, marveling at the colossal stone structures towering above...
I am so blessed to be here!
Love to all,
Rachel
posted by Rachel at 3:01 PM
3 Comments:
Good job with authentic British spelling of program.
Make sure you add speach bubble coming out of your mouth that says, "This Sux". Maybe you could take a pic of your wonderful drawing and then put it on your blogspot for all to see. You little DaVinci you
I loved Oxford when we were there. We went in the gate, or we tried to and they said the Cathedral was closed. Soooo disappointed. Walking back I happened to hear someone mention vespers so I inquired. Now only were we able to go to the cathedral, we attended vespers where the acapella choir (do blogs have spell check?) songs reverberated through the hallowed halls. It was like heaven. Be sure to attend vespers at 6.
Auntie LS
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