Oxford and Bath

Just a word about my weekend: It was amazing.
On Thursday my tickets to go to Israel in April got here, so I'm twelve kinds of excited for that. On Friday (we haven't got classes on Fridays, it counts as part of the weekend here). On Friday I was very diligent and wrote my Geography paper. Then my absentee ballot came (!) and I voted (!!!!!). On Saturday the whole school went to Oxford, which was amazing. It is actually one of the most interesting towns I have ever been to. The school was founded in like 1235 or something thereabouts. Every exciting Englishperson every lived there at one point or another. No kidding--JRR Tolkien, CS Lewis, Beatrix Potter(!). Also, we went to the Oxford University Press store and I restrained myself from buying a dictionary. It was pretty awesome, though. I ate lunch at a pub where JRR Tolkien and CS Lewis met weekly to discuss things. It was really...Well, cool trip.

After Oxford, a bunch of us took the train to Bath. I'm sure there are lots of cool things to do in Bath, and I went to see the Roman Baths Museum and walked around a bit, but mostly I went to the spa there, which was a perfect treat for me. And then I came back to school and now I have to go to class.

I'm going to Portugal on Thursday, so I'll post again sometime next week.