just briefly...

well..this was the exciting thing that i had mentioned before...this car!! isnt it amazing! one of the older gentlemen that came to dinner at lee's house had this car and it is from 1924...1924!! how amazing is that? and he took laura, mark, and myself for a drive around the country and we had such a blast. every person that we drove by we waved to...good times! it really was incredible - not the fastest car bust still so much fun!

this week i have gone to do research at the bodleian library. which, besides the fact that i had to do school work, it was a neat experience! i had good intentions of going again tonight...but well i went shopping instead (and bought some adorable shoes by the way - i love england)!

last night, we went to see "a trip to scarborough" at the oxford playhouse. what

a play!! i laughed so much. after the initial confusion of three different time periods occuring in the play and characters leaving and entering the stage a lot...i absolutely loved it! it was such a great production. i realized that before i came to england, i had never gone to the theatre (and jenn, the movie theatre does not count!) - and i feel like i really missed out! so, when i come home i want to keep seeing plays! definately, it is such a great time. so, the guy to the left is lord poppington (well thats his character in the play, i kinda forget his actual name right now) and he was by far the best actor in the production. alisha and i (along with our driver peter and kay - two wonderful people!) stayed after the play to chat with the cast. that was really cool. and afterwards and went to talk to this guy and get his autograph. fun!

before the play, we all went to the eagle and child (which as i mentioned before was the place where jrr tolkein and cs lewis used to meet over drinks to discuss literature). the person at the head of the table the the right of me is lynn robinson and she is the academic coordinator of the program. she will also be our tutor in shakespeare later in the semester. it was really wonderful that she came with us. when beth and i heard that swan lake was going to be in theatre at oxford, she said that she would look into the price of tickets and she would go with us! i thought that was very sweet of her!

okay, well, besides school work, things have been quieter around here. tomorrow night is formal hall at regents park college and on saturday we will be spending the day touring around stratford! i cant wait!