Thursday I got to go to Christ Church… AKA Hogwarts. It was pretty amazing. In addition to being the place where Harry Potter scenes were filmed, the college’s cathedrial was also the church of Charles Dodgson… AKA Lewis Carroll… AKA creeper. We took a tour of the great hall and the cathedral where our tour guide, Winnie, showed us her top six favorites in the cathedral. There was some pretty sweet stained glass in the church from a lot of different eras. I’ll put a link at the end of the so those of you without Facebook can see my Facebook photo album.
Friday brought very little activity of note… It was kind of a chill day for me. So moving on to…
Saturday, we had to be ready by 9:15AM, which is an insane hour to expect college students to be up at on a Saturday. We headed to the Oxford Castle where we went on a tour. The castle was decent but nothing terribly earth-shattering… Mind you, I hadn’t had my coffee yet and I had to walk up and down a claustrophobically small staircase, so I might not have been particularly open-minded. After the castle, and some donuts and coffee, my Oxford through the Ages class went to the town of Iffley. The walk was about 45 minutes, but we were promised a bus ride back home. In Iffley, we visited a small church that was an example of Norman architecture with some Gothic alterations. After that we took the much-appreciated bus ride to City Centre, where I bought a triple chocolate cookie to eat on the way home… or for the first couple minutes on the way home.
Sunday morning I went to church. It happened to be Children’s Sunday. Unfortunately I was not able to participate in the scavenger hunt during the service. Later that day, we went to a candlemas at Christ Church cathedral. Candlemas, as Wikipedia.com informed me, is a celebration of the encounters of Simeon and Anna with the baby Jesus. It was a cool experience complete with chanting reminiscent of the monks in Monty Python and the Holy Grail. After our 9@9, it snowed!
Today, Monday, Taylor, Ashley, Emily, Jen and I went for a walk to City Centre after Humanities. Oxford looks so beautiful when coated with fresh snow. Here’s a link to my facebook album so you can see the snow and the other adventures of the past couple days: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2090635&l=845fb&id=71005864
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