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11 July 2011

And so it begins...

Academics! Yes, the real reason why I am in Oxford.

Today was the first day of classes. Yeah, pretty lame….Funny how this feeling is the same no matter where I am. Haha. International Law doesn't seem to be a good choice so far, but we'll see how it turns out. My tutor is nice but monotone. He's probably a very good teacher, so this all really depends on how focused I'll be. I wasn't too attentive, probably because I went to a small get-together the night before class started, too. Haha. So typical.

I won't see my British Politics tutor until tomorrow. I'm pretty stoked for that. I'll have to go to Oriel College for the Seminar. I love how the University of Oxford has so many colleges and they're basically all right next to each other.

I made some friends. Its nice but it definitely changed my plans of "finding myself". I just planned on being myself most of the time and exploring on my own, just because I always feel like I'm not independent. Now to figure out another way to "find myself". I could still explore on my own, but its a bit lame of me if I made friends.

Hell yeah! I bought a ticket to the midnight showing of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows Part 2! Woot woot! It’s a shame that I booked the movie at the other theatre, when everyone else is here is going to the closer one… I should've paid more attention when booking... Its cool though, I get to experience walking back to my room at 3 AM alone. This is a chance for me to experience getting mugged. Hahaha.

This might sound crazy, but I want to experience almost everything here (except rape, losing ALL my money and paperwork and death). I want excitement. I want to have mad crazy European hook-ups. I want to do things I wouldn't do at home.

I absolutely can't stand the smell of my room. I swear the last person that was here vomited on the rug right next to the bed. I told the porter and he emailed the scout to do a carpet clean. The scout came in today to clean it, but the smell still lingers. He's very nice and tried his best, so I'll just deal with it. I'm just so darn nice.

Regardless, I am in love with England! The days are longer because sun sets around 10 PM here.
(Hopefully no one in that building will think I'm a peeping tom for taking this. Haha.)

I decided to walk by myself at night today. Yeah, it was dumb, but I need to stop being so scared of everything! I feel that I can't appreciate anything around me if there are so many people around (tourists) and when people are with me, I don't want to stop them every few minutes to take everything in, or force them to move on quickly if I’m not too interested. It’s breathtaking when you really experience it.

Its about midnight here, time to relax!

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