Pleased you enjoyed Devon Hi, really glad you enjoyed exploring Devon (and we really enjoyed your photos)... the reason we Brits have very narrow roads is to ensure visitors holidaying in our wonderful county of Devon learn to slow down enough to enjoy the view and relax ;) (but we know what you mean trying to get 2 oncoming cars to get past one another!)
Shakespeare I am starting a course on Children's literature, and the reading list is huge! I think that I am taking Shakespeare's Tragedies next semester, or Victorian afterlives. Hopefully I will get to have you next year!!! Oxford was absolutely beautiful, and so so green!
Nostalgia Aaahh! Your Oxford photos make me so happy/sad! I've stood in the vast majority of those places....very lovely.
Am teaching upper-level Shakespeare at the moment. Wish I could have you in class. :-)
Protect your eyes.
Brits... Yes, I can not keep up with them at all... really I have tried and failed and accepted that I will party about half the amount that they do until my blood becomes a bit more british and a little less american. seriously though I don't understand how a culture can function with so so so much drinking involved. The freshers are nice, but i am kinda old and jaded even with my own age, so pretending to be young and naive about lining on my own is hard. Plus they make extremely immature decisions most of the time... but again so sweet and nice!
On the note of the weather, it has been beautifully sunny for the past five days, (which I have spent hungover in bed mostly so that is no good). But the campus is just brilliant in the sun!
I don't start classes till monday, and my first English class is on Friday, it is Literature's Children, and there are only 14 of us in the class which should be amazing. Apparently it is also considered a 500 level class in Madison so that should be interesting, (just a little nervous for that). My other classes are basic physics and Biochemistry, so no sweat there... how has your semester been?
So been there It's like you're re-living my study abroad experience...omg. I felt the same way, getting lumped in with the freshers. Who were all awesome, but it was a little weird when I had been in college for three years (I was a senior). I felt like I was pretending a bit, all the time. Trying not to seem old, jaded, and over it. And then feeling a little bit bad for playing immature. But it was fun anyway!
And, yes, the Brits (you're right about that, it's nationality, not age) have some sort of gene that lets them party until they're literally falling over and then get up for whatever activities they have the next day. And then do it all again the next night.
Good luck with the sun. I noticed a 5-days cloudy/drizzly, 1-day rainy, 1-day sunny pattern, but you seem to be getting more rain than I did. How are your classes?
Hello Hello Anna,
We got your blog and are all signed up. Might note that Frontier changed our email address, but the old one works until Dec 31st (supposedly).
Sounds like you had a real fun trip to Bristol. But hope by now you're settled in ok. We look forward to getting your blog on occasion AND to seeing you in London toward the end of the month. As you know, we'll be staying there with your Mom10/27- 31 at the Presidents Hotel. What are your plans for that time?
Love and happiness
Nana & Papa
Well, here it goes. I am 21 years old and setting off on a year long adventure to southwest England. My home-base will be Bristol England and from there who knows.
I have been here for a while now! ... full info
Seven Skies, Devon
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Pleased you enjoyed Devon
Hi, really glad you enjoyed exploring Devon (and we really enjoyed your photos)... the reason we Brits have very narrow roads is to ensure visitors holidaying in our wonderful county of Devon learn to slow down enough to enjoy the view and relax ;) (but we know what you mean trying to get 2 oncoming cars to get past one another!)