Waiting for the Good Stuff
Hey Everyone!Thanks for leaving all the comments. They make me happy.
A small correction. If you wrote down mine and Jen's addresses from her last post, mine was not quite right. You can reach me at 85A Walton Street, Oxford, England, OX2 6DW.
Today I was inducted into the Bodleian library. By inducted I mean I had to recite something that said I wouldn't steal their books or light fires in their buildings. (You think I'm kidding?) Anyway, this place is huge. It looks big just from the outside, but most of the library is underground and out of sight. Bodleian holds over 8 million books and receives a copy of every book published in Britain. If I want to check something out, I have to find it on a catalog and request. The staff at the library goes into the caves, finds the book, puts it on a conveyer belt and has it delivered to a "reading room" of my choosing by the next day.
This is the week they call "naught" week. Most of the students come back this week in preparation for the next term. No such rest for us. We are kept plenty busy with ceremonies, house-keeping, and 10 hour-long lectures on British culture and history. Even now I am just wasting time in the Program office because by the time I made it back to my flat, I would have to turn around again for the next lecture.
It isn't that I find British history hopelessly boring or that I have no interest in engaging with culture. Those things are great. My problem is that when we have at 10 in the morning, my body thinks that it is still 2 AM. I was never much for morning classes when they started at 8...
That is enough for now. I hope everything is going well over there. Oh, and since I don't have your e-mail address and won't see you until May, congratulations deric and amy!
-Chris
posted by Jen and Chris at Oxford @ 5:14 AM
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