Reading Week

Ok, so today is the first day of our first break of the semester, reading week. Early tomorrow morn me and two flatmates are departing for Copenhagen followed by Berlin.

And it feels good to be on break, as I have actually been kind of busy with schoolwork(!). I know, study abroad right? But, one of my courses ended yesterday after 5 grueling weeks of 10am class, and thus I also had to do all the work for that course in 5 weeks, which meant a bit of a crunch at the end, but it's over now, and I am happy.

So, picking up approximately where I left off last time, the next weekend we took a daytrip to Stonehenge and Salisbury. I was expecting to be a bit let down by Stonehenge, but it was cool. However, I had to roll my eyes a few times when listening to the audio tour and they're talking about how there were 4 (now only 2) corner stones (I think that's what they were called...) and AMAZINGLY enough, these stones form a PERFECT rectangle and the center of the rectangle is EXACTLY in the middle of the henge. No duh, they built it that way on purpose. If they can move those huge stones all the way from Wales, they're not just going to throw them down haphazardly. Then we spent the afternoon in Salisbury, which was pretty cool, got to see a sweet Cathedral, go to a market, eat some chips from a fish and chippery. Not ready for the fish part yet... maybe someday. Also saw one of the four remaining copies of the Magna Carta, and the best preserved one. Which was really cool, but there were approximately 40 copies originally, and there are four left, so it's less special than it could be.

In terms of our British friends, we have continued to cultivate our relationships with the people living around us. We now regularly go out with the boys from the flat down the hall and their friends, and it's a good time. We have also bonded with the flat across the courtyard, as we quite often see each other in our respective kitchens, so we finally went out with them last weekend.

Well, I am off to pack/launder/clean etc. as things have become rather bleak on that front.