Here are some highlights from my last three weeks in Oxford, England:
1) Wrote 2 poems for my poetry class and wrote a paper on social class in America and how it affects academic achievement. Both really interesting topics!
2) Visited CS Lewis' house, home church, and gravesite (and sat on the bench overlooking the pond where he and Tolkien met to discuss their works)
3) Had dinner at the Eagle and Child, the place where the Inklings (including CS Lewis, JRR Tolkien, Charles Williams, etc. met to discuss their writing)
4) Ate an authentic kebab from a street cart in Oxford-so good!
5) Went clubbing for the first time
6) Joined my college's rowing team (which comes with EARLY morning practices)
7) Went to a Union debate regarding University fees
8) Had a pigeon literally fly into my head on Cornmarket street
9) Heard Sir Ian McKellen (Gandalf from Lord of the Rings) speak about his life as an actor and his struggles with and acceptance of being gay
10) Went running along the beautiful Thames River
11) Booked a trip to Scotland for a week to go on a backpacking/bus tour. Awesome.
12) Booked a trip to Lithuania to visit my best friend the week after classes get out! More awesome.
These are just some highlights that come to mind at the moment. It's starting to really hit me just how amazing and unique this experience is from anything I have even remotely done before. The university makes so many things and resources available to you-it is literally limitless. I live with amazing roommates, in a perfect location, in a shockingly beautiful city. I am able to choose the topics I want to study each week and am taught, one-on-one, by some of the most brilliant people I have ever met. I still walk down the street and have moments when I honestly cannot believe I am here. Even though I have months left here, I still get a little sad when I think about the fact that at some point I will have to leave. I can wholeheartedly, without any hesitation, say that I am completely and utterly in love with this place.
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