hey all, sorry i haven't updated in a while, it's been a weird couple of weeks.
Brief recap of the time since i wrote last:
October's been going pretty fast. tons of drama, of course, but too much to go into here. we had our introduction papers due on the 8th, which i think mine went well, but we won't get them back for another week (yea, 4 weeks to get a paper back!). then the real tutorials started. it's not been extremely difficult yet, though i have at least one paper every week instead of one every two weeks, which took some time to get used to.
my birthday was on the 16th, it was pretty good. i didn't do too much (and didn't get drunk). just basically spent a really nice and relaxing day at home and then went out to eat and to a few bars and a club that night. it was a good birthday. and i got to see someone get alchohol poisoning and get carried off in an ambulance! haha. God knows what i like to see on my birthday! :P
i went to a dance at Regent's with Melody Megan Annie and Corey a couple of weeks ago and it was really fun! i got to "dress up" like a professor, which basically means i put on some nice clothes and danced a lot! It was glorious!
as far as OOSC related business, we went to a castle, a palace, an artist's manor, and Shakespeare's birthplace as well as other places in Stratford upon Avon and London that were of Shakespeare significance and it was pretty cool. other than that, we've just been hanging around oxford and doing not much. there are some cool British people we've been hanging out with a bit that Becca introduced us to. they're basically awesome and annie's kind of dating one of them.
Me and Maura went on a surprise and last minute trip to cambridge to visit Joe and Jenna and everyone at Cambridge and it was AMAZING!! we went to a pirate dance and met the people that live on their floor and had pizza and watched movies and it was great! Cambridge is much more like a city than oxford and it was really interesting. plus i got to spend time with joe and jenna, which was amazing as always. justin got me sick though, and i spent the next like 4 days in bed. : ( not a fun tutorial, let me tell you! now they have to come visit us so we can take them around oxford! hmmm...what else?
Oh! i joined the Oxford Trampolining Club!!!!! my god, i love it! it's really weird trying to get the hang of the differences between gymnastic form and trampolining form (trust me, there are a lot of them), but i think i'm getting it. they said i might even get to compete later in the year! SO EXCITING!!! it's three times a week as well, so it gives me something else to do other than procrastinate from writing my papers!
now on to the choir fail. so i've been looking for a choir to join because i didn't want to be in a church choir, so annie told me about a choir at St Catherine's that we could go to...and choir fail begins. we start walking and i don't know where we're going plus i don't have my glasses. so i know this will be an interesting trip. we looked on the map before we left and saw a little bridge over a lake that was a little shortcut, so we head that way. as we're walking, we start to approach serious horrror movie potential. there is overgrown plants everywhere surrounding a street with less and less street lights and when it starts nearing the darkest part of the area, we see this unlit path leading to a creepy 2 foot wide "bridge" we'll call it, with no lights on it of course, and annie was like oh i think that's the bridge we need to take. i was like H@#$ NO!!!! This is why white people die in horror movies. i had flashbacks to the float trip. anyway, so we keep walking and end up getting completely lost, so we decide after a while to juts give up and go home. we have travelled so far south, we are near the OOSC house that is really out of the way of everyone else, so we decide to go to their house and hang out for a while. so that part of the night was good, but overall, it was an EPIC FAIL!!!! We may try again, but next time, we'll take the bus, thank you very much!
jojo
