Oxford Weekend

So i decided that to warm myself up for writing my history essay I would start with my blog. Luckily for you that means you get filled in for my past week. I forgot one part of last week that was really interesting and that was German movie night. Our German prof decided that one a week on a Tuesday or Monday we would watch a German movie in Bader all together. Last Tuesday four of us plus the Prof, plus the French prof all watched Run Lola Run in C1 (the gathering/movie room in the residence). It was really interesting, I really enjoyed it. I wish I could pull off her hair, its all bright and colourful and full and stuff and I likes it. Geez, pardon the language, I seem to be having linguistic issues today. Anywho what was the best part was when someone got hit by a truck and it was the classic person getting hit by a truck scenario and I did the only natural thing that come to me when I see such things on television, I laughed hysterically. Of course Katie understood and already knew about this sick reaction of mine but everyone was simply perplexed until I explained that many movies have this classic and are always built up in similar ways. You arent supposed to suspect a thing, though movie buffs like me can spot it from a mile ahead which only makes us laugh all the more when it actually happens. Everything is wonderful then boosh, out of nowhere a big ass truck or in the case of Run Lola Run a big ass ambulance, comes and yeah I think you get the picture. I was going to go more detaily but that might be taking it a bit far. Hee.

Anywho, I had an interesting chat with my German prof after that and also with the French prof and Katie. The four of us sat there for an extra half hour just chatting. Nice night. Last Thursday night six of us went to Kari and Jacinta's room to watch the Shining (pls tell me the spelling is right, I sat here for 5 minutes debating the fact). We turned the beds to make one big couch and put the laptop on a chair to be our movie screen. OMG I have not seen that movie in sooo long! I definately yelped a little and jumped. I am afraid to say I scared the others in some parts when I prematurely jumped for almost no reason. I am fairly easily spooked so I can be fun to watch scary movies with. It was fun. I also rented (borrowed from the library) a poo load of movies because my roomie wasnt here this week so I was gobbling up only child time in my room. I rented this kids movie that I always wanted to see when I was younger but never got to and since it was here I thought I would give it a try. It put me into a good mood. I also watch Empire of the Sun with BABY CHRISTIAN BALE!!! If you see my flickr you already know this, but seriously it was so exciting. He is like 13 yrs old and Steven Speilburg is director so you know its good!

I will get onto the rest of my weekend. On Saturday I woke up early to go to Oxford. The whole school pretty much was going even if they didnt have a feild study, because they had to and they probs wanted to visit Blackwells, the huge ass (I am loving that word today) bookstore in Oxford. I was in the English class who's tour of Oxford wasnt until the afternoon and I was pretty much one of the only ones so I spent the morning by myself, which is honestly fine by me. I was feeling the me time. I first went into Blackwells and almost died. It has four floors and is beautiful. I mean I know we have Chapters and Indego, but I feel like this had more genres to choose from and its British! So I lingered in ther for over an hour and then decided I really wanted to see the Botanical Gardens even though the flowers wouldnt all be up yet I figured it would be nice. I love Oxford, it is so old and just the walk down was nice. You have to pay to get into the Gardens but its not expensive and it is beautiful. It has all the plants labelled so you can tell where they are from and stuff and it has the plant houses so you can go inside and look at blooming flowers. There were also trees and fountains and ponds and a river and rocks and benches and some bloomage. There was JRR Tolkeins favourite tree which was cool. It was very pretty and very big. For me my excitement was to see Will and Lyra's bench. If any of you read the Philip Pullman books you will appreciate this, if you dont you will have no idea what I am talking about. Anywho it is their meeting bench if you can remember and it is so cute and someone had scratched Will and Lyra forever on it, so cute! It over looks one of the ponds and if you look at my daily photo thing on flickr there is a picture of me sitting on it on day 22 I beleive.

The next step was taking the tour of Oxford. It was very literary based. So we were taken around to most of the colleges of Oxford U and told who went there and also taken to a few of the houses and libraries and told who lived there or worked there. My favourite was Percy Shelley who I will forever love now. First of all he saved me in English class from John Keats. I mean beautiful poetry that would be lovely to read allowed, but it was soo depressing and at the end of that class we looked at one poem by Shelley and it made me happy again because it was all about nature and wind and stuff. Loved. Secondly I learned that Shelley didnt much like Oxford U. He used to get them into trouble by running accross the street to outside the shops and switch the babies in the perambulators. Mothers would leave them outside the shops (which is what they should do now adays - damn mamas with their huge ass strollers knocking the clothes off the hangers and shelves and NOT picking them up again and then expecting us to help them fit into the changerooms and make the store wide enough for them and that everyone else should move and watch out for them because they are obviously more important even though their babies are going to grow up to be wimpy bips who do the same thing with their own children and just end up making me an old maid who chases kids off her lawn with a shotgun). ahem, so where was I? Oh yeah, Shelly. Anywho he would switch the babies around while the mamas were in the shops and then the mamas would complain to the school about him. I personally think it is hilarious and a perfect fit. He also sent a pamphlet about how atheism is good or something to that effect to all the heads of the university and was subsequently kicked out. If i have that story wrong at all I apologize, but it is the general idea. So I have a love for Shelley now.

So the tour produced lots o pictures and stories and afterward I went with Elizabeth to the Natural Science museum and saw Einsteins only leftover chalk drawings. After that was time to meet up with the gang for the three hour bus ride home on which the movie Talladega Nights was to be played. I only watched certain scenes because I was listening to music, but interesting. Its a Will Farrel movie so I didnt get my hopes up too much. That was that for the weekend basically. Ooo actually not really. On Sunday four of us were supposed to take a mini-bus (free ride provided by the school on their own schedual that is posted per week and you are supposed to sign up for certain rides) to Brighton. The bus was also to stop at the library. When we got on we were basically kicked off and told that library students get priority even though most of them hadnt signed up for the bus and had just shown up hoping for a seat (we had signed up a week in advance). I was really angry because we should at least have been warned this would happen and e-mailed one of the head people incharge of these things to tell him what happened and stuff. I must say it was a really good e-mail and was pleasantly surprised on Monday morning by a huge notice in the foyer of the caslte basically in full response to my e-mail. I was soo surprised that he actually did something about it and so fast! I checked my e-mail later and found a message from him explaining stuff and saying they are still trying to perfect the system. I was just greatful they did anything at all!

That brings us to today. I went to the Sussex library again which is a good hour mini-bus ride. It was night time too and I sat in the front passenger seat so I didnt get car sick and it was just really nice looking out he window and listening to the radio. I really enjoyed it. Now I should do something about that essay. Mmm, until next time, adieu (if thats how you spell it, hee).