I'm pretty exhausted. Today we had BREAD again and I don't know what is possessing me to wake up before 8:00 on mornings when I don't even have class!! I guess I'd be up anyway just because my roommates go. Still...I feel like such a grandma when I get tired at like 9 on Friday nights. Not alright. However, all the boys in our house except for I think 2 are gone this weekend and it's so quiet and there would be no one making noise on the floor above me while I'm trying to sleep. Though, if I'm being honest, it's nothing compared to the stampede like sounds I usually hear when I'm at home; also these boys don't really make any noise. Every now and again I hear one loud thud and then it's quiet. So I don't really have anything to complain about. Right now it is 11:00 and I'm falling asleep more and more each second but I just had a meal at 9:40 so I feel like I need to wait a few hours before I go to bed. I took a shower and put fresh sheets on my bed and now I'm downstairs in the computer lab typing this because my roommate is smart and she DID go to bed at 9:30. Champion, that one. Erika's up with me though. Today, I had a lot of time to think and Erika was writing in her journal and she asked what we did on this certain day and I didn't remember but then I did remember what I did on Monday and Tuesday and it's worth talking about. So if it won't be too confusing (and even if it will be) I'm going to take a moment to talk about those days before I talk about today!
Monday was a wacky schedule because my C.S. Lewis class was held at Magdalen (pronounced mawd-lin) College which is where Lewis actually taught during his life. The campus was amazing! There were only a few buildings but they were all so old and fantastic and there was a grassy area where the college raises deer...which they then kill and eat. That was a little out of the blue, I thought. We got to walk around the track/circle path where Lewis had his talk with Tolkien and another of his friends that led him to Christianity. The whole experience was really incredible! Gosh...now for the life of me I cannot remember what I did after I got out of class at 6:00. Shoot. Maybe I'll get back to you.
Tuesday! I have no recollection of what I did during that day, but I know that for dinner I went downstairs to my professors' little apartment/basement and had tacos with his family and some other students and that was really fun. And then I don't remember what I did after that. Dang it! Maybe all this wasn't as worth it as I thought, but I already typed it and I'm too lazy to hold down the 'delete' button for as long as it would take to get rid of all this...eh.
Today, Friday, the promised land, if you will. I haven't gone to bed before one or woken up after 9 the past couple nights. Now, I know that sounds like a solid 8ish hours of sleep, but you just need to trust me that it's not enough. So I woke up for BREAD today and then I decided to go on the tour of Christ Church with the tourist class. Christ Church or, as I like to call it...HARRY POTTER LAND! I don't really call it that. Don't worry. It was a really beautiful college though, and the chapel was full of all of this beautiful stained glass. We did get to go into the dining hall and that's where the 'magic' happend! The truth of it is, the stairway leading up to the dining hall was used in the films (Think Sorcerer's Stone when they walk into Hogwarts for the first time...I STOOD WHERE THEY DID!!) but the actual dining hall was too small for the movie so the film makers took a picture of it and then made a bigger model. Potato...um, I don't know how to spell it those two different ways, but the point is, I was freaking inside the great hall!!!!! AMAZING!! And not to worry, my camera was fully charged this time and plenty of pictures were taken! After that, we walked around and ate in this lovely cafe and then went and got a Ben's Cookie and a milkshake from Moo Moo's. I got a peanut M&M one. Delicious. Then, Erika wanted to stop in this beauty shop kind of thing that we walked by. Oh my gosh. Ever heard of 'Eyebrow Weaving'? Well this woman (or man I guess...eh) takes a piece of string and twists it up but somehow manages to keep it open at the end and then she puts the open part on your eyebrow and closes it and twists it and it pulls out ALL YOUR HAIR! Well, Erika thought it looked cool and she did it and said it was fine so I was like "eh, what the heck" so I did it. It. Hurt. So. BAD! Oh my gosh. I will never do it again. At one point, it felt like she ripped my whole eyebrow off with one little twist and and yelled and Erika and Mandy started laughing and I was laughing but secretly I was about to push that woman away from me and walk outta there. Then she finally finished and I remembered...I have two eyebrows. And it cost 10 pounds! Shoot, that's never happening again. No. And my eyes were red for like 3 hours!
After that catastrophe, Erika decided she needed some new jeans so we went into the Gap. While I was waiting outside the changing rooms in my tie-dye hoodie, two different people walked up to me and asked me if I worked there. Erika spent all day telling me that we would never blend in because I refused to assimilate to the culture and here I was getting asked if I worked in a British establishment!! Then, later this guy asked if I was from New Zealand. I don't really get how he thought that...but he didn't guess American! Woo! After Jean shopping, we sat around in a coffee shop for a while and then we went to a kind of souvenir shop because Erika wanted to buy a sweatshirt and I wanted to look around. I ended up getting a grey hoodie with blue accents around the crest of Oxford and also some navy sweat pants with Oxford written down the side. Now, when I get home and I wear that out in public, I can have a little fun by pretending to be from England!! Love it. Erika made me get everything big though because she said it's supposed to look more comfortable than I was making it. Psh.
My professor brought his family with him this semester, he's got a wife and two little girls, 7 and 4 and tonight they invited us down to their apartment to watch Mary Poppins with them. It was a lot of fun. The little on is a riot and she's got a sweet tooth unmatched by any child I've ever seen. After the movie, I was in the kitchen washing some dishes and she walked in and said, "Hey, I wanted to tell you that we forgot to do shadow puppets. Also a dance party." So naturally we had to schedule a dance party right then and there and so we're all set to dance to the Lion King soundtrack tomorrow at some point. It'll be fantastic. After the movie I went and got Ali's...I know, second night in a row. That'll probably be it for a while. They don't open till 7 and it's super cold outside at night! Now I'm just killing time. I think there's an hour left on the 3 hour rule concerning food and bed. I'll find something to do. I don't know what's on tap for tomorrow but it'll be thrilling....I can just tell.
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