>I’m in Texas
>That was a crazy rapid adjustment. My brain and whatever subconscious emotional thing had trouble catching up with my body in the rush into school and count...
>That was a crazy rapid adjustment. My brain and whatever subconscious emotional thing had trouble catching up with my body in the rush into school and count...
>Tomorrow will be my last day in Cambridge. I am at my desk analyzing the eminent question, Why didn’t Guinevere ride away with Lancelot?A question more urge...
>I read a quarter of shakespeare’s Othello at a pub called The Eagle… “At present, I sit in a fireplace. A long sense heavily used fireplace- I fear that if ...
>Today I went to a tiny art festival in a garden circle. a street guitarist stood by the fountain and sang familiar tunes and I gave him 20 pence. there was ...
>We went to Henry IV Part I at the Courtyard Theatre in Stratford on Avon. Good play. I like going to plays. I wish I liked ballets but I dont think I do. I ...
>Yesterday I went with one of my professors to Coventry Cathedral. That is where Lady Godiva rode naked on her horse through the city streets. She threatened...
>The diversity of people here is crazy. People come here to learn English from all over the world- especially during the summer months because the Universiti...
>Tonight I went to an International Students Ministry in town. There were like 30 students there! They come here for the summer to learn English and this Chr...
>10 hour bus ride. We stopped in Haworth, England, where the Bronte sisters grew up on the way up. (authors of Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights). The town was...
>I was in London the second time yesterday. We went to the Tower of London first. The white tower in the middle was the palace before Hampton Court before Bu...
>After that, we ran down to Piccadilly Circus at night time- that was pretty. It is like New York’s Time Square but not quite. Fancy bright lights and signs....
>So England was the only country in the world to recognize Texas as a country back when we were independent. So there was a Texas Embassy in London. Now, it ...
I was reading in a chapel of Michaelhouse in Cambridge, England and the sun was pouring perfectly directly through a big stained glass window with assorted craz...
I wrote before about John, the adorable elderly man from my Bible study group whom I bring Latin notes to because he loves translating it with me and he was on ...
>We went punting today! The river is pretty shallow near town so instead of gondolas, Cambridge has punts. About 6 people can ride in each long flat boat and...
>We just went to see Shakespeare’s “The Taming of the Shrew” in St. John’s College garden. Okay so that was amazing! (Kiss Me Kate and Ten Things I Hate Abou...
> Drivers drive on the Left side of the road in UK, Australia, and Japan. FUN FACT: The reason is that when knights jousted, they held the lance in the right...
>The other night about four of us illegally played in some flat boats on the river. oops. No, they were tied to the dock- we didn’t do anything that bad. And...
>Yesterday I played Ultimate Frisbee on Jesus Greene. This town was basically built on an island in the middle of a swamp and the town expanded before they f...
>The Globe at night time. So I have a thing for Big Ben- I really like it. People say it’s under-rated but I beg to differ. When I look at it, I think of The...
>Today a friend and I took a train out to Ely, a little town nearby- only £3.50 ticket. There is a Cathedral there built in 1081 and it is extra-ordinary! Th...
> So this is Ely Cathedral. Queen Ethelreda first had a church built here in 673 A.D. and the building as it is now was completed in 1081 except for The Lant...
> The whole entry hall ceiling has paintings from creation of Adam to Christ’s birth and him seated at the throne in heaven. Sad story, the man who took to p...