Free Food

As I mentioned earlier we are served three lunches at RPC cafeteria. After the lunch I normally take some leftover fruit to eat later because, you know, the more you take from the cafeteria the less you have to buy with your own money. On Tuesday they served pizza and there was this really yummy looking bread at the salad bar so Lauren and I went up to grab a piece after the meal. One of the staff members was standing right next to the table with a scowl on his face and at first I thought he was trying to tell us to get lost, but after he saw what we were doing he offered us the entire basket, because they were just going to throw it away anyway. So he gave us a basket of bread and some butter packets. It was great but I felt a little like red riding hood carrying a basket of bread from RPC to New Road Church where are next class was. But the head of kitchen staff now is my new favorite person.

More Shots of Oxford and Charlbury

 

"Stop the Oxford Animal Lab; Stop the Oxford Animal Lab..." kind of catchy.. 

outside the Bod 

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Xylaphone players in the middle of CornMarket St. This street is boarded off for pedestrians. I've also seen people play violin, guitar and saxophone there but these guys were my favorite. 

Oxford in the evening 

A really creepy tree 

Furry English cows 

SHEEP!!! 

Muddy Walks

I was heading home when I met Shera and Sarah show where going for a walk. I wanted to try seeing some of the countryside so I decided to go too. It was the muddiest, coldest, longest walk I’ve been on. But at least we saw some cute sheep. Other notable views was a brown river, and a plethora of mole hills. I have a feeling things will start to look prettier in a month or so but right now we’re still in winter as much as it feels like spring to us North Americans because of the deceiving appearance of grass.
“Hey, what’s green and has wheels?”
“What?”
“Grass; I lied about the wheels.” 

 

 

Today is Sunday. I keep telling people I'll do stuff for church so I was in a skit today. Last week I played piano... Anyway, here are some shots of the Baptist church in Charlbury. 

Formal Hall

All the girls in our group are invited to go to Formal Hall once in the term. We go in groups of three. This Friday Annie, Christy and I went. Christy and I were kind of relunctant but it ended up being really fun. They serve a really nice dinner in the cafeteria every Friday night and some people get really dressed up for it. Some guys were in tuxes. Afterwards we went into the lounge for jazz and chocolates. I was hoping they'd have a jazz band but it was just a CD. However, we also found out that a group of people meet there every week to watch Gilmore Girls so I might just have to join them! We met a whole bunch of exchange students that go to Georgetown in Kentucky. Annie played fooz-ball, I mean "table-foot-ball", with some of the students. We had to leave at 10:15 to catch our train though. I wish we could have stayed later.

Annie, Christy, me 

Annie photo-shopped this one. 

Wally! 

Lauren and I in the stocks... I was supposed to look miserable but instead I couldn't stop laughing. 

 

The Duke's family's private church. This was where Winston Churchill was buried right across from where he was born. 

another shot of the palace 

Cornish game hen 

The bridge 

Annie and Lauren on the bridge 

A gate in the middle of nowhere.... 

me and lauren in Blenheim park