Thursday, May 31, 2012

Thursday, May 31

I know you haven't heard from me in a few days!  That's because I have been SO busy:  We are in class from 9-4.  Then I walk a brisk 20 min. walk home (my dorm room).  Recently I have had errands every day so that means trying to find what I need before it closes at 5 or 5:30.  Most places close early!  I have a favorite place that I have eaten dinner for the last 3 nights called the Turl Street Kitchen.  It is a farm to table type place with the freshest food.  They change the menu every night.  I always eat at the "community or share" table because that way I don't have to eat alone.  Several people always sit at the long table and we share the meal and conversation!  The girl that I sat by last night had just come from working for the Peace Corps in Costa Rica.  She was in Oxford to see about applying for a graduate Business degree.  Today one of our instructors took us on a museum art tour around Oxford and someone came up and tapped me on the shoulder--it was the cute 25 year old that spotted me and came over to say "hello."

I will talk more about my classes when I can catch up with you this weekend.  I am loving the studies!

Cotswold honey-colored stonework, quadrangles, domes, bell-towers, slim spires,  cobblestones, winding-alleyways, punting, beautiful gardens, "golf-course" like grass in the quadrangles, C. S. Lewis, J.R. R. Tolkien, ancient doors and gates, afternoon tea, the colleges and halls...................some of my early impressions and things I have noticed.  I haven't had much time to explore yet.

Tonight I am heading to Michael Ramsden's home for a barbecue.  (one of the professors)

More later!    Mae Ann

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