It has been a while since I have done anything on here because I have been busy writing papers and studying for exams and going on day trips. We went to Rousham Gardens which were very nice and very green and we got to walk on the inside of a giant hedge at one point. Also there was a statue of a lion eating a horse. I actually had to do a write-up of it for an assignment so I don't really need to talk about it as much.
On another day trip we went to Bath. It started off with driving in the playbus and then we went to see a nice looking house that would have been like the one that Sir Walter Elliot moved to in Persuasion. After that we went to the Jane Austen center and looked through the museum there. Bath was a pretty neat place with lots of nice houses and some decent scenery. I tasted a little of the waters at bath but it just tastes like gross, hot, stale water. They are supposed to have mysterious healing qualities. We went to a place that had a dance hall similar to the ones that would have been used in Jane Austen's time. After that we went to a fashion museum. There were some really old gloves there which were pretty cool, but we weren't allowed to take pictures of them.
Those were pretty much the highlights of the Bath trip that I can remember now. At one point we went into a department store restaurant because Doug received a tip from a guy at the Jane Austen center that there was a good view of some building from up there. It wasn't anything too impressive to me and everyone just felt awkward for standing around in a restaurant staring out a window and then leaving. Also there was a neat bridge and water-step thing. The bridge had shops all long the sides and when you were on it you couldn't even tell that it was a bridge.
Exams and papers are all done now and today we are all going to go into Oxford just to wander around. We never really did much touring around outside of at the very beginning when we were given a brief tour by Louise. We were always going to class or to the library so there wasn't much time for fun. The other day though Beth and I went to the Oxford University Press which was pretty neat to see.
On this coming Friday, the 8th of April, we have to perform our play. I don't think anyone has memorized their lines yet, but we have all week to do nothing but that. Then on the 11th we leave Charlbury. Beth and I will be headed to Paris til the 14th, coming back and staying in London for a night and then catching a plane back to Canada on the 15th. It's crazy how time flies.
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