Excitement!

My Auntie Debra and Uncle Ben arrive tomorrow! Now, if I could only finish this paper....

More Bath Pictures

Oxford

This weekend, Siv and I went to Oxford. We visited some of the colleges (beautiful!); got a drink at the pub where J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis used to hang out (nerdy!); went to Evensong at Christ Church cathedral; visited the Bodleian Library and Ashmolean Museum; took lots of long walks by the river; met up with Siv's friend Ginger, who is a Rhodes Scholar; and stayed in a hostel run by some crazy Australians. It was loads of fun.

Bath

Well, not much new to report, I've just been working on my essay. Last weekend Siv and I went to a Bath rugby game, which was tons of fun - I've included a picture. We also went to church at the Abbey (beautiful!) and had tea at the Pump Rooms afterwards - we felt like Ladies Who Lunch. The weather has been beautiful except for one or two rainy days, and I have enjoyed walking around the town and walking up and down to school every day. I hope it lasts a little while longer, anyway.

Meanwhile, I am so disturbed by the news from home - Bush vetoing the SCHIP bill (and the subsequent child-smearing campaign)?! Susan Orr's appointment?! Bush threatening World War III?! What is going on, America?!

I am off to Oxford this weekend whether my paper is done or not, and I'm really looking forward to it. I've never been there before, but I've been wanting to go for some time. I promise to post pictures afterwards!

Torquay

Sorry for the long hiatus! I have been scrambling around moving, and getting back into the habit of studying, and meeting lots of new people, and just settling in. I spent a couple of weekends at Kyla's, doing wedding planning and just puttering around, which was lots of fun. It's great to be so close by. And this weekend, I went on a little trip to Torquay, which is on the south coast of England (you might know it as the setting of Fawlty Towers - although we stayed in a bohemian backpackers hostel - and the hometown of Agatha Christie), with Siv, another girl from Seattle. The weather was beautiful, and we had a wonderful time walking along the coast, watching England beat Australia at rugby in a pub, and being thoroughly charmed by just about everything.

I'll try to be more diligent about updates! Life just isn't so exciting when there's homework involved. But I'm not complaining, Bath is great and life is good!