| | A few minutes to write before class begins at 9:30. So far Oxford's been glorious! I've been treasuring my alone time here, I think because I'm so relationally exhausted after L'Abri. I most of all love the evenings when I curl up in bed with a book and read for hours, a luxury I never take the time for at school. Yesterday afternoon I went grocery shopping and then to G&Ds (Oxford's own ice cream!) with a friend in the programme and then wandered off by myself. I explored the Covered Market and bought one of those new hippie Arab shawls, dipped into a tea shop, and meandered down past Magdalen College, over the bridge, and down Conwey Street to the Blockbuster to find some good movies. I love the relaxed, independent feeling of exploring a new college town.
On Tuesday we spent the afternoon together after class. We took a bus to Stonehenge, where we created our own Stonehenge out of people and then photographed ourselves jumping in front of the rocks. The bus went on to Salisbury Cathedral, where we examined a copy of the Magna Carta and sat in peaceful silence in the cathedral. The last stop of the day was in Avesbury, a tiny little town with more huge rocks and hundreds of sheep. The boys all started hearding the sheep, yelling over the 'baas!' and running up and down green sunlit hills. England at sunset is breathtaking.
And now off to class to study more T.S. Eliot! I couldn't imagine a poet I'd rather study. "Let us go then, you and I,/ When the evening is spread out against the sky/ Like a patient etherized upon a table..."
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| | Posted 7/26/2007 4:33 AM - 4 comments
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) Have an absolutely lovely time in Oxford.