Hello, Goodbye

I'm leaving for Barcelona in about an hour and half with Sara, Christy, Beth, and Sara! It's been a somewhat frantic last couple days...but not as bad as it could have been (should have been?).

Oxford term is officially over today. We have a whole day off (Monday) for something along the lines of Spring Break, so most of us here at Woodstock are going somewhere this weekend. Tuesday we start the SCIO program part of the semester here. We have "Christianity and Cultures" lectures and field trips and reading to do and essays to write...the topic of the lecture course is "British Landscapes". What I think of the C & C course in a word: bleh. It's the Americans. They just let all the Oxford administrative power go to their heads, I think. Anyway, I didn't come here to study British history and hear an hour-long lecture on a map drawn in 1426--which is not an exaggeration on how specified the lectures will probably be; Oxford scholars tend to narrow their fields of study down to about three days in some long-past century. Despite how interesting some of the lectures might be, I am less than excited. Since I did come to study English lit. All right, I'll stop ranting. The other part of the last four weeks here is the English seminar, for which I'm writing one long paper. That will be bearable, I think.

But enough! Barcelona awaits...