My Temporary Home

Guess what, guess what!?!? We are finally in Oxford. After a day of many travel mishaps from Bath, we finally made it! We are staying at the beautiful Brasenose College.  And I mean beautiful. Don't you agree?  Please excuse the construction fence at the bottom.  I am not tall enough to get it out of my picture.

We checked in and then were shown to our rooms.  Luckily I had a guy carry my bag for me, because I am up pretty high.  Sidney and I are in the same "staircase" which is sort of like the Houses in Harry Potter. Elizabeth is in the one next door, Slytherin. J/K girlfriend.  I have a humongo room.  Much bigger than any other room I have ever had.  Yippee skippee! If I knew how to turn a cartwheel, I'd be doing plenty of them in my room.

the right side of my room. beautiful decor, no?

the far left corner. with the lamp from "brave little toaster"

the left side of my room. yay for the sink!

and we have come full circle. view from the back wall (my bed is to the left of the nightstand)

Bathroom... eh... I can barely wash my hair because my elbows hit both the walls of the shower. Oh well! And just two of us have to use this bathroom.  I share it with a dude.  His name is Andy, and he is my waiter for breakfast and dinner.  Could get interesting...

We got all dolled up and headed out to the courtyard for our orientation meeting.  Everyone is very, very nice.  Because we are doing this program through the University of Oklahoma, most of the students are from there.  Then, we headed to a reception.  Free libations for all! Cheers!  At this reception, we mingled with the professors and other students.  Oh, and we talked to a knight.  Sir David Something Or Another.  What a cute old man!  Next was my first dinner here.  It is in a beautiful great hall with long wooden tables and benches.  Not quite as big as in Harry Potter.  And yes, I am going to refer to him a lot because duhhhh the final movie is about to come out!!!! AHHHHHH! Anyway, dinner also provided wine for everyone. Ayiyiyi!

sidney, elizabeth, and me at the reception. pardon my sleepy look

After that, we heard that there was a lil party going on.  So we found it, and we went.  Basically a guy has a room here.  But he and his wife are staying in a flat.  So his room = party room.  Actually, I think the scientific name is the Oklahoma Party Room.  Good times, good times.  Then, we headed to the underground pub.  It is a pub underneath our building.  And it offers bottles of wine for 7 pounds (I don't know how to make the pound symbol).  This is dangerous, yet awesome, news!  

We probably stayed out til 11ish, and then I fell asleep on my notsocomfy bed. Hopefully I'll get used to that.  

Breakfast the next morning (Monday) was an English breakfast.  Potatotes, baked beans (it already sounds strange, doesn't it...), bacon, sausage, toast, eggs, and juice boxes. I'm thinkin' that's gonna get old reallll fast.  I had class at 9 am, which was Family Law.  We discussed incest and bigamy.  Then, I went into town (yay!) and got a phone (yay!)  My next class was Evidence.  I really like both of my teachers and my classes, for now.  

Wednesday night is a "theme night." Which means 007 Night. Which means Bond, James Bond.  Our invitation reads, "Dress Code: Suave." Well, I am a super suave person, so this should be no problemo...

Tata for now!

Barbara