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| Getting out in the world |
pictures: 1stnd: evan and i at the tower bridge, 2nd: stonehenge with me and LB. very rainey please excuse my hair.
This week hasn't been the most exciting. Most things in Oxford we have seen and done already so it is just us going back to visit the favorites. We seem to have settled into a routine of getting up, getting breakfast, class, some adventures in teh afternoon, supper, then some activity between 8-10ish.then bed.
We've been hanging out with the moorhead boys more lately (evan, logan and mike). they are just hilarious to hang out with. logan is crazy talented at music, evan and him get together and play the piano for us once in a while. They are really easy going guys always up for jsut a walk around town. Lb and i will miss them when we have to split off from them for the continental tour.
yesterday LB and i took off to explore london for ourselves. We felt comfortable enough to do some expolring without having someone lead us around or a guy to protect us. we separated from a larger group that was going back to the british museum so we could go check out Hyde park and the natural history museum. Hyde park is beautiful! for those of you who have seen "finding neverland" the park scenes were filmed in hyde park. Very greed and lush with a lot of water features with wild ducks, swans and geese swiming around. We talked with this one guy who was feeding te birds bread. he warned us about the dangers of american rap music :) it was kinda funny. In Hyde park we also got to see the statue of peter pan and the albert memorial and some people riding horses around (yes i was drooling over the horses, i can't wait until ireland!). after that we made it to the natural history museum. That place is by far the coolest place we have visited yet!!! they have so many full skeletons of dinosaurs and a couple mechanical replications that move and screech at you when you walk by. LB and i are prettty much in shock over all of it. we almost started freaking out in that stupid high pitched screem girlly jump around thing that girls do. WE could have sat there and watchd the t-rex all day. the thing was so cook that even its eyes would appear to focus on you. it was really realy cool. after some running around in the museum (about an hour and a half) we took off as the museum was closing. our original plan was to go tour parliment since we knew that that was open later. on the way there we walked through st. james park and had a little picnic, watchng the geese, swans, ducks, squirells and pelicans. it was so pretty since the sun was starting to set. WE also stopped to get a picture in a phone booth with big ben in the background. by the time we got to parliment they were closed for some party or meeting so we just decide to walk to vicorias station and putts around until our bus came. we eneded up jumping in a couple book stores and the train station (kinda like a mini mall) to get some raspberry whitechocolate cookies from millies cookies (our new additction). then it was a quick bus ride home to wycliff and a stop at husainnes to eat. it was there LB and i decided that we loved being girls since the cookie guys gave us extra cookies and the hussains guys give us free fries. :)
anyawy thaks for the comments and e-mails guys!!! i love being kept update with waht is going on!
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| Tuesday, March 28, 2006 |
| what a weekend |
Quick update: I added pictures finally!!
first one: LB and i at greenwich. we are in the right and left hemispheres at the same time. the second pic: random pic in oxford but it shows the atmosphere. third: a cool looking tree that lb and i climbed on.
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Wow this weekend was quite an adventure.
saturday we took off for our first feild trip. we got to take a double decker bus with the moorhead crew so that was fun. first stop was avebury which is about 4000 years old and has a giant dike, ditch and stones all around it. they think that it was built by the same people that built stonehenge but these stones are a little smaller and you could walk up to them and touch them. after that and some traveling (including a some ridiculous jokes by dr.chapman) we reached stonehenge. by that time it was raining pretty heavily and of course i forgot my unbrella on the bus, i got quite wet, but it was still pretty cool to see these masive stones. After stone henge we had a 20 minute bus ride over to salisbury to see the salisbury cathedral. it has been in worship everyday for 700 years. it was amazing. the sheer size of it you can't imagine until you are in there. after that it was just a ride home for some grub at wycliff and then a short shopping trip for LB and I so that we wouldn't have to spend as much money in london the next day.
London was sooooo much fun. we started out as part of a big group (tom, bri, kate, eric, mike, matt, evan, LB, and i) we were all going to go and watch the changing of the gaurds which tom said (and tom is always right) was going to be at the tower of london. unforunatly we got separated from the whole group as we got on different busses to go to london (two main buss companies and we were split between them). so matt, mike, evan, LB and I all ended up in london and continued on without the rest of the crew to the tower. at the tower we find out that they only do the changing of the gaurds at buckingham palace (which is what we thought, but since tom is always right, we had gone along with his plan) At that point, evan LB and i split off from the rest of the group to do our exploring in a smaller group. a big group just gets irritating to deal with becuause you can't move as quickly and everyone has to agree on everything. THe three of us walked around the tower bridge (see pic at top of blog) aand then walked across the thames and across much of central london over to the imperial war museum. the museum was amazing. they had all these things that you could do that would kinda put you in the soldiers shoes (we got to be in the trenches in ww1!) after that we ate our lunches we had made from the night before (mm pita bread and ham) and continued to walk aroud london. We walked by the london eye (a giant ferris wheel that provides great veiws of the city) and went and took pictures around big ben and parliment. we then took the tube over to the british museum where we only covered half of it in about 3 hours. that is how huge that place is. we did get to see a lot of egyptian stuff including mummies and sculptures, and we also saw a lot of the greek and roman sculptires, and a ton of other stuff. we might go back there this thursday to finish off the africa, and american areas in there. after the muesum we were hungry again so we grabbed some subway (pretty cheap option here) and walked around in the Soho area of london for a bit until we reached buckingham palace. we then decided that since it was quite rainy and getting dark, we should probably head back to oxford. we grabbed hossains on the way back to wycliff because they have the greatest food here and we were hungry again (they even gave LB free fries).
yesterday was a lot of recovery for the busy weekend. we sat around a lot, updated our journals and did laundry. we also went to the museum of natural history again, bringing evan and danielle from moorhead to see the t-rex skeleton and stuff. we were really lucky actually taht we got to the museum when we did since there was a huge downpour shortly after we got there. peopple were coming in completly soaked!
anyway, today we're going to go to the ashmolean (art place) and then find something else to amuse our time.
no pics this time. blogger is being stupid and not allowing me to grab them off my snapfish accound (if anyone knows how to fix that, let me know)
thanks for all the e-mails again!
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| Friday, March 24, 2006 |
| First trip to London |
I'm not even quite sure what i update about last, but yesterday was my first trip to london. LauraBeth, Mike, Matt, Jamie and I all got on the bus and wnet into london seeing some cute little sheep and lambs along the way (and i took a nap). once there we had our first adventure on the london subway system (called the tube). it took us way to long to get to grenwich, but we had a fun time anyway. we went up to the royal observatory and took pictures near the prime meridian and in the park with the cool looking trees. we were also able to find supper at this cute little italian place that really enjoyed having us as customers. it looked like they didn't get a whole lot of buisness, so they were very doting on us and best of all we got huge bowls of pasta for pretty cheap (best thing in the world for college students adapting to the interesitng food here) the food here looks or sounds normal, that is until you eat it. its not all bad, its just a little strange to get used to.
well anyway, since i am waiting here for my pics to upload, yes you guys get pictures this time! i figured i'd write a bit more about london. Being the dork I am i kept noticing all the dogs here. there aren't a lot of them, but people are allowed to bring them pretty much everyplace with them. bookstores, postoffice, the only time i saw a dog without an owner was when a dog was waiting outside the grocery store for the owner who was shopping. it was really cute. a lot of the beggers have their own dogs which is kinda cool to see them always curled up together.
on wednesday (london trip was thursday) we went to the museum of the history of science, which is about as interseting as the title. not much to see there besides a lot of microscopes and other equipment. plus it was filled with french students so i was glad to get out of there. they do however had a blackboard with einsteins writing on it from 1931 which was pretty cool.
other than that, i am loving the weather here, its still a little cold, but today it was so nice and sunny that LB (laurabeth) and i went outside to read before class started. Amy brandt, if you are reading this . . you would LOVE it here, so rainy and misty with always that smell of a fresh rain around.
today LB, mike, matt, and two peoples from moorhead, evan and libby, we all went to christ church. it was pretty cool, and we got some cool pictures of the chapel and the great hall. i got some pictures of the part that harry potter was filmed at so that was cool. after that we headed back down to st.giles st. they had a little market going on. we went back later for further exploring and we tried some cookies, and some turkish delights.
tomorrow, we take a feild trip to avebury, stonehenge and salisbury. i'm pretty excited to get out of oxford again. it should be a fun time. also sunday we're going back to london on sunday to see some of the city in the day time.
yay pictures!!!
there is one of the bridge in heartfordshire college. if you turn to the left right after it there is this relaly skinny allyway that brings you to the turf, (the bar where bill clinton allegidly didn't inhale while smoking a certian alleged substance)
second pic is of grenwich where the prime meridian is, i do have a picture of myself in both the west and east hemispheres at the same time. i'll post it later though once they are already on the internet.
the group in the pub(que pasa bar and grill) pic is left to right, Bri, Jamie, Me, Leah, Kate, Eric, and Kristi.
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| Tuesday, March 21, 2006 |
| fun in oxford |
well i've been able to do a lot more exploring of the area. yesterday we attempted to go to the science mueseum but found it closed and decided to do some more shopping. then later a group of us went to Que Pasa pub to find something to eat for supper that would be better than the "steak and mush" pie that was being served at wycliff. although que pasa sounds like it would be mexican, it acutally had safari-ish style and served mostly italian food. (go figure)
today most of the bemidji group went to the science museum. for laurabeth and i . . it was like being kids in a candy shop. so much biology and history to take in. they have several full dinosaur skeletons and tons of other skeltons of other animals. we are definately going to be going back there. the pitt rivers museum was also fun to visit, especially when one of the guides there came and talked to us and told us how tribes shrink peoples heads. it was kinda random, but facinating at the same time. unforunately everything closes here at around 6 so we have to do most of the expoloring during the day.
the group here is getting closer and closer. i beleive tonight is going to be an early night though as many of them are staying inside to watch pride and predijudice for the english class.
i better go though, i gots lots of e-mails to contend with right now and short on internet time.
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| Sunday, March 19, 2006 |
| oxfordian adventures |
hey guys, i made it to another internet place today . . much cheaper than before. Anyway its been a blast so far seeing this city. I adjusted pretty well to the time difference . . especially when i can sleep in until 10am! :)
yesterday we went exploring the city again. LauraBeth and I met up with Jamie, and two guys from moorhead to walk down the the main buisness area (carfax) We picked up some nessecities (boys needed shampoo) then just went browsing. I got a great Monet print which keeps falling off of my wall in the dorms. I also got some post cards but they are going to have to wait a while to get out because the post office won't be open until tomorrow. We ran around taking pictures for a while throuhout the whole thing. I got some great pics of broad street, and brasenose lane. We also went aroudn in the bodilian library [IMG]http://www.ox.ac.uk/i/aboutoxford/divschool.jpg[/IMG] and the Church of Mary the Virgin.. [IMG]http://www.wayoflife.org/fbns/in-thefootsteps-bibletrans/Footsteps,%20resized/oxford-st-mary-virgin-(1)-b.jpg[/IMG]
Today we woke up later, decided to be heathens (by not going to church) and greeted the much improved weather conditions outside. Intstead of being overcast, windy and cold, it is now sunny and mid 40s in temperature. Also LauraBeth spotted a pheasent in the garden outside our room this morning. Kinda weird to see those just walking around in a city.
Our room is super cute. we rearranged some of it to make is more homey, and added the two posters on the wall (which keep falling and attacking us) But it feels strangly normal here. OUr room pretty much feels like home, and once we get used to the food everything will be perfect!
ANyway i hope everybody is doing well and is home safe and sound from all their spring break adventures. Send me an e-mail or comment if you can. Miss you all!
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| Friday, March 17, 2006 |
| i'm here |
\i'm safe and sound in oxford! i'm going on about 5 hours of sleep that i had thursday morning, but i'm not actually all that tired at the moment.
\laurabeth and i got a pretty big room . . other than that it had jsut been run run run since we got here. \we got here late, then had lunch, then had a introductory meeting, then a tour of oxford with chapman. \its really cold here right now so i appoligize for my typing. . . my fingers are really cold and stiff and the moment.
\so much stuff to see and stuff i want to go and see! around every courner there is something completely new and awesome looking, and i keep seeing gifts for friends and family as well.
anyway i'm gonna go, hopefully pics and a longer update will come soon!
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| Wednesday, March 15, 2006 |
| Yay for my little brother!!! |
My little brother won his game against Red Lake yesterday. It was such a close game. They were ahead of us 2 minutes from the end, but we came back to rally and win it!!! They play on friday against pelican rapids (undefeated) and if they win that they will go to state.
I leave tommorrow, and so far have been able to pack everything alright. Lots of loose ends to try to tie up though before leaving tomorrow. My mom decided to drive down with my sis and I to drop me off. Its just crazy to think that I am leaving tomorrow, but i'm sure i can get everything together in time.
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| Saturday, March 11, 2006 |
| Sadness |
Well i am at my parents home until i leave. It was tough to leave good ole b-town today though. I realized that although bemidji has been my home now for a while, leaving today reminded me of the first time i left home for college. Knowing that i would be away from home for so long . . . knowing all the adventures that i will go through before i get back. . . missing out on spring, my favorite season . . . :(
on the upside, i got to see my little brother play a great game of basketball! They beat bagley and if they win their next game on tuesday, they will be one step closer to state!!! It was awesome to see in ruling the court!
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| Sunday, March 05, 2006 |
| so yeah |
to let you guys know, I'll be checking this blog when i'm over there, and feel free to leave me comments. I have the settings so that anyone can leave comments. just fyi
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