Oxford vs. Cambridge

Well, this weekend I visited the other half of the British Scholarly rivals, Cambridge. After a pub night on thursday, me and few friends took the train into Cambridge, which took about 3 hours. We met a cool guy from Israel on the train there, who has a sister at Cambridge and was looking at applying there too. The first thing he said to us when he found out I was from BC was "Is it true that weed is legal there" hahaha. Glad we have such a good international reputation...

Anyways, so we got to Cambridge, and our first stop was lunch. We found a pub with cheap food, wine and beer so figured that was a good place to start. After there we basically just wandered around the city, visiting a lot of the different colleges. Thats the thing thats most different about universities here, they have a bunch of different colleges (like campuses sort of) scattered across the city, that usually specialize in a certain faculty. All the campuses are so beautiful, and we found a building that was built the same year Canada became a country! We spent much of the afternoon looking to find a store with the cheapest cambridge gear, to match our oxford sweaters. Now when we go to the Oxford-Cambridge rowing regatta we can wear whichever sweater is the winning team!! Unfortunately my camera broke right as we got to platform 9 and 3/4 :( so now i have to get a new one. 

Anyways, next weekend I'm off to switzerland, so I will be sure to have some good stories after that!

Til next time...

Mel

Sorry it's been so long..

... but I honestly haven't been doing anything too exciting lately, besides getting hooked on 30 Rock and planning lots of trips, but haven't gone on any yet. Last weekend, I went to Oxford with my entire school which was pretty cool. It was FREEZING! We had a walking tour which was cool, it was really neat seeing the school and all the site of all the famous authors and harry potter sights! Then we went shopping.. yay for Primark! Yay for 2 pounds shoes!! Then on Saturday I went into London for a field study with my religions class, we visited a Hindu Temple, ofne of the biggest outside of India. It was really cool, especially because it was all hand carved. Then we went out for sushi (not nearly as good or as cheap as richmond!)

Schools been going well, I have my first assignment due tomorrow for Geography, and after this week I have lots of work due just about every week. 

This weekend, I think I'm going to check out cambridge for the day, and then I'm planning on going into London for the day.

Next weekend, I am going to switzerland. Im flying into Basel, which is on the border of France, Switzerland and Germany. Its much cheaper than any of the any other major cities. I'm going ot train to Lucerne for the day though which will be cool. 

Then the next weekend I'm going to Budapest, and then meeting up with my school in Brussels, and then going to Paris.  

anyways- I will update with more exciting travel stories later. 

Miss you lots

Mel

i'm baaaaaaack!!!

Helloooo so the blogs begin again. It has certainly been an interesting few days here. First, my flight was delayed, BUT I got upgraded to business class. That made me quickly forget about the delay. I got a delicious salmon dinner with cesar salad, and cherry ice cream in a chocolate covered waffle bowl, and cereal and champagne and a "comfort package" including socks, ear plugs, a toothbrush etc. It was amazing. For once I actually slept on the plane. Then I got here, missed the group transportation so I had to take a cab all the way back to the castle. After unpacking we celebrated in the pub, and thanks to my good friend jetlag, I didn't sleep til 10 AM!!!! I was awake ALLLLLLL NIIIIIGHT. Then i slept til 3pm which was kind of disorienting. Later that evening we had a wine and cheese night where the teachers were introduced. Most of my teachers are the same, except my new geo prof is hardcore Russian, and I could barely understand anything she was saying. Im also considering transferring into a 200 level Geo course about sustainability. It sounds cool and I talked to the prof and she seems pretty amazing. I had my first day of class today (well I only had one class, at 8:30am of course..) and it was okay. I have 3 8:30 classes during the week!!! 

So... what's coming up in the near future? I just booked flights to Budapest or February, before we got to Brussels and Paris, and I got my field studies calender so I have a geo field study next weekend, A trip to Oxford and a trip to a Hindu Temple all in this month. I'm also trying to plan a trip for this weekend, since everyone has it off..

OH! IT SNOWED HERE! it only lasted like an hour but it was very pretty. I guess the snow followed me and just about every other student here haha. 

Miss you all.