Hey folks!
Its been a month since I last wrote, for which there are no excuses but hopefully you'll all forgive me, or stop reading, your choice. Anyway, it has been busy busy busy here in London with no signs of slowing down. Here are some of the highlights.
Work continues to be something I generally look forward too, I'm learning a lot and enjoy where I'm working. I feel like my opinions, views, and research is taken into serious account and is actually valued which is, aside from cool, rewarding.
As a program, we took a day trip to Oxford which was a cute uni-town not too far from London but I think I definitely prefer London. In other school related news, work on dissertations is in full swing and although I don't see eye to eye with my adviser on much (read: anything) something that may resemble progress is being made. Good thing too! it's due in less than a month!
I've continued to spend at least part of each weekend doing some sort of touristy thing. Some times I just end up going on a walk through different parts of London but I love just exploring. I spent a whole day wandering around the river and St. Paul's and the bridges and couldn't have been happier. I've also been to 221b Baker Street and have resolved to re-read my Holmes over break. Some friends and I took a day trip to Stonehenge, Salisbury, and Bath. An awesome day and worth the early wake up call. Stonehenge is beautiful even without the mystery. Salisbury has a Magna Carta! they wouldn't let me take pictures but it was amazing to see a document that so shaped history (wiki it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magna_Carta).
In frisbee news, I still go play every Saturday morning and almost always head home feeling tired but refreshed. I got to play in a weekend tournament which was tons of fun (usually they play Wed. afternoons, when I work) and we even did reasonably well for never playing indoors before. I'm still working on getting the hang of handling as some of you may have heard, but some days are better than other. Sounds silly but the fact that I can usually see where the pass should go or know why something was a poor decision is a big step - now if only I could execute the throws.... The last bit of frisbee news is that I had my first callahan the other day (A defensive player intercepts a pass from an offensive player, in the endzone for a score) and then played with a stupidly large grin for a few points :) Generally, I'm really glad to be playing because its helped me stay sane and take a break and meet some great people here in London, outside the program.
Alright, that's it for now and it's back to writing for me. I promise it won't be another month until I write but I seriously doubt I'll go back to once a day or even once every other day simply because much of what happens these days is routine. Regardless, talk at you later!
Its been a month since I last wrote, for which there are no excuses but hopefully you'll all forgive me, or stop reading, your choice. Anyway, it has been busy busy busy here in London with no signs of slowing down. Here are some of the highlights.
Work continues to be something I generally look forward too, I'm learning a lot and enjoy where I'm working. I feel like my opinions, views, and research is taken into serious account and is actually valued which is, aside from cool, rewarding.
As a program, we took a day trip to Oxford which was a cute uni-town not too far from London but I think I definitely prefer London. In other school related news, work on dissertations is in full swing and although I don't see eye to eye with my adviser on much (read: anything) something that may resemble progress is being made. Good thing too! it's due in less than a month!
I've continued to spend at least part of each weekend doing some sort of touristy thing. Some times I just end up going on a walk through different parts of London but I love just exploring. I spent a whole day wandering around the river and St. Paul's and the bridges and couldn't have been happier. I've also been to 221b Baker Street and have resolved to re-read my Holmes over break. Some friends and I took a day trip to Stonehenge, Salisbury, and Bath. An awesome day and worth the early wake up call. Stonehenge is beautiful even without the mystery. Salisbury has a Magna Carta! they wouldn't let me take pictures but it was amazing to see a document that so shaped history (wiki it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magna_Carta).
In frisbee news, I still go play every Saturday morning and almost always head home feeling tired but refreshed. I got to play in a weekend tournament which was tons of fun (usually they play Wed. afternoons, when I work) and we even did reasonably well for never playing indoors before. I'm still working on getting the hang of handling as some of you may have heard, but some days are better than other. Sounds silly but the fact that I can usually see where the pass should go or know why something was a poor decision is a big step - now if only I could execute the throws.... The last bit of frisbee news is that I had my first callahan the other day (A defensive player intercepts a pass from an offensive player, in the endzone for a score) and then played with a stupidly large grin for a few points :) Generally, I'm really glad to be playing because its helped me stay sane and take a break and meet some great people here in London, outside the program.
Alright, that's it for now and it's back to writing for me. I promise it won't be another month until I write but I seriously doubt I'll go back to once a day or even once every other day simply because much of what happens these days is routine. Regardless, talk at you later!
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